Vista Games and Kilt Night, June 28

[sydnie7]

These photos are also posted in the original Games and Kilt Night "invite" threads but nobody seemed to notice so I'll give them the new thread they deserve (showing such nice threads!).

Bob (Bigdad1) donned his new Union Kilt (see the Union Kilts thread for discussion of the fit) and we set off for our very first Games.





We met up with Jay (James MacM) who was wearing a Matt Newsome box-pleat. Here he is chatting up a pipe band about their tartan.



Bob and I are members of Clan Donnachaidh -- here's the banner on parade, borne by my brother-in-law Garth Reid (president of So Cal chapter) in the green T-shirt.



We spent quite a bit of time watching the Games. I think I have a shot of Shriner in competition, but will have to look more closely. Here's one of the female caber tossers. Bob's take: "When she throws her boyfriend out, he stays thrown!"



And of course, the shopping. . . sad to say, one of the vendors had this on display. I understand he got kilt-checked more than once!



And Bob admired this kilt pin, so it became my two-year anniversary gift to him and is now his avatar (today's the day, BTW).



Later we met up at Hennessey's in Vista for a nice dinner and great conversation with Jay, 1OldSarge and his very nice lady (forgive me for letting her name slip from memory!), KiltedinUSMC, and Shriner. Here Shriner is trying to pay for his trip from Florida by showing some lovely fur sporrans. It looked like a drug deal out on the sidewalk! Around the circle that's OldSarge, his lady, Shriner, Jay, KiltedinUSMC, Bob, and a friend of Jay's (I think) in the ball cap.



Later the boys "did the Ham" for me.



That's all for now! Thanks again to Jay for organizing the kilt night, it was a great way to end a fun day.

[Yaish]

It's very cool, and I regret that I couldn't make it for the meet up. I was at a friends wedding however, and there was no way I was going to miss that. It looks like you guys had a blast though. Hopefully we can get a similar group together again sometime and make it work.

[Panache]

Thanks for sharing the day with us. It looks like our Southern California Kilties had a great time.

These photos are also posted in the original Games and Kilt Night "invite" threads but nobody seemed to notice so I'll give them the new thread they deserve (showing such nice threads!).

FYI: Generally the discussions about Kilt Nights and Highland Games/Celtic Festivals tend to mainly concern plans for those in the area/attending. The "Show us your Pics" forum is where people then show off the results of the day and tend to be interesting to everyone.


Cheers

Jamie

[Ancienne Alliance]

nice pics.
Thank you.

[AcuteEnigma]

How do you get pictures up so fast!

Don't you have to sleep?

LOL

Will have some of my pictures up in a week or two. Going up to the Monterey Games in only a few days!

[McMurdo]

Good pictures looks like you all had a wonderful time.

[sydnie7]

How do you get pictures up so fast!

Don't you have to sleep?

LOL

Will have some of my pictures up in a week or two. Going up to the Monterey Games in only a few days!

Sorry you weren't able to make it Saturday night, AE.

We were only able to attend on Saturday, so I stole some time (from unpacking moving boxes) on Sunday. Laptop has a built-in card reader that, amazingly enough, accepts the card from my digital camera -- zip zop! Although I am going to start doing all the editing within "real" software, then upload to PhotoBucket -- editing online takes too much time and is way too klunky.

Back to the boxes!

[Coinneach]

Great pictures! I really wish I could have been there with everybody, but it's good being here, too.

[IrishGodfather]

Great pictures!