I remembered at the last minute Friday evening when they had a blurb on the evening news, so The Boy and I got up early Saturday and kilted up for the drive down. We were both shoehorned into our Dutch Friendship Tartan handsewns by Bonnie---Carter has two years of growth on his since she made them, and well, lets just say my new day job working from home has wrought havoc on my weight loss program.
We ran into John (EagleJCS) back by the pipe band prep area and had a great talk. I also ran into our xmarks friend HeathBar and caught up with his life a bit. Seems that Heath has been scarce on the forum for a while because he and his wife have adopted four kids which have filled their lives to over brimming. He smiled widely and I could see that he was very happy, and I was happy for him.
Boy got into the kids' highland games demonstrations and won first prize for his age in the hammer throw when he heaved a rubber mallet about 30 feet down the improvised range. He wore his medal with great pride while we watched the master's and pro's set new records in their version of the hammer throw---world records I believe. Then we watched the official opening and the combined bands on the pitch.
Scotch eggs and chips for lunch and some ice cold water finished off our day as we left before the rains came, and The Boy caught a two hour nap in the car on the way home. Sorry that we didn't get to stick around longer or have the luck to run into any other xmarkers besides John and Heath.
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