Busy Weekend

As of midweek last week, we only had one thing happening on Friday night...our last formal event. We were properly "dined out" of an RAF squadron last Friday, 28 August at the Fairmont St. Andrews Hotel. It was a wonderful evening of catching up with friends who have moved over the last 2 months and bidding a final farewell to the squadron here (Cody is now flying with the other squadron...his 3rd squadron here!!). Unfortunately, others took pictures, but I do not have any of the copies yet.

So, as of midweek, that was our only "event" for the weekend...then, Friday on the way to the dinner, our weekend booked up!!

We were lucky enough to get to do one of the things we thought we were going to miss out on! When we got our assignment here, we had been told by some friends of ours' (thanks Wests!) to go see the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Because you typically have to book tickets a year in advance, we didn't go last year and when we found out we were moving, we didn't book the tickets to it, as we thought we would be gone. However, we attended, courtesy of the RAF!! The RAF had a few box seat courtesy tickets and Cody was able to get two of them. Our sweet sitter agreed (very last minute) to watch Jackson from mid-afternoon so that we could get down there, pick up the tickets at the box office and attend the 7:30pm show. The backdrop for the show is Edinburgh Castle...uh, HELLO! It was gorgeous and to see a talent show of sorts of Military Bands from all over the world there was a truly unique and fabulous experience!! Here are some pictures (in chronological order a.k.a. dawn to night) of the "best half time show" in history!!
Sitting in our box seats...where we were given a "goodie bag" with a CD and DVD and then a glass of champagne and caviar after, while everyone else left their seats...you know, so we didn't have to wait! (And, yes, I'm wearing my winter coat. It was downright COLD that night with the wind blowing that high up!)


Only in Scotland...Pipers from different Clans all participated in this performance. I will never tire of good Piping Bands!

My favorite "act" the Swiss drumming group known as "Top Secret."

The "Curtain Call!"

Cool picture of the flags...and then move your eyes down the picture...see the mass of people exiting the Castle down the Royal Mile?!?! Yep...LOTS of people have been attending these "sold out" performances for years!

What's even more amazing is that some family friends of Cody's had come up from Australia for the performance...the show time that we were lucky to get tickets to! So, we met up with them prior and then they came up to St. Andrews for the day on Sunday. We took them out to the base. Here is a picture of the "boys" in front of the Tornado.

It was a fun weekend! Hopefully, this next weekend we will go back to one of the annual countryside fairs that we had so much fun at last year! And, hopefully we'll know WHEN we are ACTUALLY moving...well, and I guess WHERE, as we still have nothing in writing=).