A Good Old Fashioned Scottish Tea Party
Sorry to have taken so long between posts, it's been a bit busy here lately with IWT stuff and plenty of guests. Last wed. we said goodbye to the Rittenhouses (Aunt Esther and Uncle Jim) and Anita and James Stoltzfus. We had a great time with them doing all sorts of things including golfing on a real Scottish golf course. Gary from our small group after hearing James was a golfer decided to invite us out to Aberfoyle and picked up a couple of bags of clubs for us as well. I think I can speak for James and say that was his favorite part of the trip and that's saying something considering the fact that they saw more of the UK in two weeks than we've seen in two years. I enjoyed the golf as well and didn't embarrass myself too much considering I don't really golf.

Everyone seemed to enjoy the castles, and the hills and highlands and yes as you can see above, there was even a wee Scottish tea party in our very own back garden. All in all much fun was had and once again the departure of guests made our house feel a bit lonely, but not for long...

On Saturday and Sunday we had our friends the Lawsons come out from Edinburgh for a visit. Chris and Jenifer and their two children (Jez and Karis) are missionaries here to Scotland from California. Chris has an apologetics ministry and has just finished up his new web site after months and months of research and planning. Well done Chris, it looks great. You all can check it out here.

In between all this I have been busy with meetings and doing training in Kilmarnock in preparation for the tour. I think I've made the commute about 5 out of the last 8 days. I don't think I need to be down there for a couple weeks so that gives us time to catch up on things around here.

Next week we host two of the famous Andrews kids (Kirsten and Brigeta). Sorry, Brigeta if I mispelled your name, I just completely forgot how to spell it as well as some other words. I must be getting old or something. We'll give a full report after the Andrews invasion, I'm sure it'll be interesting.

Well I could go on and on here but we'll just have to post more often I guess.

Once again, thanks to the Rittenhouses, Stoltzfus' and Lawsons for blessing us with your visits, we had a great time with all of you. Special thanks to James for doing your mouth noises, that's the hardest I've laughed since watching Dumb and Dumber with my good friend Mike. I really thought I was going to pass out.

Later