Military Tattoo

I have not been keeping up with this blog as well as I had hoped too.  With working in the office all day and taking care of our YSA responsibilities,  just this week we didn't get to bed until 1am on Thursday, on Friday 12:30am, and last night 11:30,  My brain feels fried most nights and the last thing I want to do is spend more time on a computer. This will be our last week being in the office everyday.  Sister Ferguson has been here for three weeks now and has most of what she needs to do down.  This next week is transfers and there are a lot of things that you can only do during/after transfers and so I will help her through this week and show her what  she needs to do then we will be finished in the office.  If she gets stuck she can just call and I can either help her over the phone or run in and help for a bit.  We will be glad to be back to just one job especially as we are getting ready to go into winter and have the short daylight hours and long dark hours.

Friday night we had a Stake YSA dinner and dance.  We had a great turn out. Several kids from neighboring stakes came. The kids did a great job and even tho it took some pushing to get them to get their plans together I think it was a great learning experience for them.  The norm here is everything last minute, then most activities or poorly attended.  We think this was a good teaching tool.  They can see how well things work out when the proper planning, advertising and effort is made.

Military Tattoo:

if you look really close on the wall you can see the lone bagpiper.

Yesterday we went to the "Tattoo."  It is big doin's here in Scotland.   It lasts for two weeks and they have two showings every night. You can look it up on the internet if you really want to know about it.  Military bands from around the world come to perform. This year there is Singapore, India, New Zealand, Africa, Trinidad, and of course Scotland. It was a great show and the precision in their marching was incredible I'm glad that we were able to see it. I guess it is a world famous event from what we hear.

We had great seats to see the performance but not so great for picture taking as we were really high up.

It takes place in front of the Edinburgh Castle and they actually build the arena each year just for this event, then they take it down and rebuild it again the next year. It seats approximately 10,000   Here is a picture behind it from the street. It is enormous,

All of the Senior Missionaries went to a restaurant  called the "Filling Station" to have and early dinner before we went to the tattoo.  Here is the crowd we had to fight on the Royal Mile to go eat and then to get to the tattoo.

This street is High Street on the map but it is called the Royal mile because it is the mile between the two main castles, Holyrood and Edinburgh.

 Instead of words, this time I'm going to write a couple phrases that are used here A LOT

Sort out or sorted out - to plan, to organize, to figure out, to fix a problem, to name a few, its used in many ways

Brilliant - in place of thank you, or great idea, or good job, or talking about something you like 

Lovely -  everything is lovely, food, drink, clothes, ie  "this sweet (candy) is quite lovely"   (tastes good)

Until next time

Cheerio