We're Back from Scotland!

I may have mentioned that I play in a Pipe Band. I'm the Drum Sergeant and one of the snare drummers for the Glendale Police Department Pipes & Drums Band here in the Phoenix, AZ area, and our band recently returned from a couple weeks in Scotland. While there, in addition to doing a lot of wonderful sightseeing, we gave a concert at Stirling Castle (where this photo was taken) and also competed in the Stirling Highland Games. By the way, I'm in the front row, kneeling, second from right (next to the bass drum). Oh, and incidentally, my wife is the Pipe Sergeant in the band, and she's in the back row, third from the left! It's great to be able to do this together!

We had a great time there, and loved the scenery (everywhere you look is a postcard), the people, everything!

Now I have to dig out from under the piles of stuff that always accumulate when you're gone for a while!

As they say in the Hebrides Islands of Scotland: "Slainte!" (or Here's to You!)