Anne's Mom visited in the summer, arriving the day before Anne's birthday.
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We watch Mom's flight cross the Atlantic |
On Anne's birthday we escape the rain in Angus |
Anne's Mom in Angus |
Eating in Arbroath |
We stop at Victoria Park |
Near St Vigeans there is a musuem, where... |
We see Pictish stones |
Thistles along the coast |
We look at Dunnottar Castle but don't go all the way down |
Mom and Anne overlooking Stonehaven harbour |
We stop and look at heather in bloom |
Cullerlie stone circle |
More heather paints the countryside purple |
A close-up of heather |
A view across Aberdeenshire |
Cairn O'Mount |
David adds to the cairn |
We have dinner at Discovery Quay in Dundee |
The next day we eat lunch with Sue Anne |
And see some of St Andrews Here is St Salvator's Quad |
And inside St Salvator's |
We go to MUSA: the Museum of the University of St Andrews |
MUSA's entryway |
MUSA has displays related to the University |
David behind the University's scepters |
There is a viewpoint on MUSA's roof |
Where they tell us about the renewable energy they use |
And have a sundial (very optimistic for Scotland!) |
And a gull visits us |
The next day we go to Falkland |
And eat at The Bruce (founded 1607) |
We visit Falkland Palace |
And Gardens Anne and her Mom in the Rose Garden |
Lavender in the gardens visited by bees |
Another bee |
We visit Queen's View in the Highlands the next day |
And also walk over a bridge over the River Garry |
Where we see tubers going down the river |
We eat in Pitlochrie |
On the way home we stop to see a reconstructed crannog |
And Castle Menzies pronounced "Mingus" (really!) |
And the Tay Bridge at Aberfeldly built in 1733 and still carrying traffic! |
The Black Watch was formed here in 1740 Anne wears Black Watch plaid by the Black Watch Monument |
Then rain hits and we just go shopping |
We go to St Andrews and Mom looks at ties |
We get wraps at Butler's |
Then visit Fife Folk Museum in Ceres |
Anne and Mom at the Folk Museum |
Mom in Spar the tiny grocery in Ceres |
We have dinner in Anstruther at the Best-in-UK Chippy |
Saying goodbye in the airport |