Two weeks to Scotland!

It sort of seems like I'm already on vacation so its funny to me that Klaus and I will be leaving for "real vacation" in two weeks, but I'm really excited about this trip!!! :) We will be going to some pretty cool places and I have had a blast researching and finding out more about this cool country. Including random facts, for example, did you know that there are a ton of TINY little mosquito-type bugs there that you are apparently NOT supposed to swat and kill when the little jerks bite you, but instead you are supposed to gently blow them off without killing them so that their little dead butts can't alert the rest of their friends that there is fresh blood around??? Apparently once you kill one of these little guys you are going to be swarmed by THOUSANDS!?!?! Yikes! I made sure to add bug spray to our packing list! lol!

I have spent the majority of my morning confirming bookings for our hotels and tours. We will fly into Aberdeen and then take a train to Edinburgh on Tuesday (17th), we will be in Edinburgh until Friday, when we'll start our "Misty Isle and Mountains 3 day bus tour" that will take us up to Isle of Skye and then to see the Loch Ness Monster and some other fun stuff! We get back sunday evening into Edinburgh only to leave again on a different tour monday morning. This one is the one I'm really excited about the group is called "The Hairy Coo" and all the pictures on the website look goofy and everyone looks like they're having a lot of fun. :) The tour will take us to St. Andrews, a whiskey distillery and another castle! :) We'll spend another couple days in Edinburgh before going to Glencoe (where the big braveheart battle was and the location where they shot some of the Harry Potter stuff!) This part of the trip is mostly for Klaus, he's the one that really likes the hiking/ nature stuff, but I think it will be nice and peaceful so I'm looking forward to it too. Then we'll go back to Aberdeen for a couple days and fly back to Copenhagen on Saturday the 28th. Whew!! Action packed vacation!

I'm looking forward to the trip because it will be the first time Klaus and I have vacationed together and I know he's looking forward to actually having a vacation! Its also been nice to have plenty of time to research and figure out where to go and what to do. I feel really lucky that I have so much free time right now that I have the ability to plan at a leisurely pace and not stress about getting it done. I'm hoping this feeling carries over into the wedding planning which I plan to really start after we get back! (YAY!)

In addition to planning the what/wheres of the trip I've also started playing around with figuring out some real photography stuff. Since Klaus has a really nice camera I thought it would be good to learn so that we can get some good shots of our trip. :) Here's some of my "playing around pictures" from our walk thru a park this past weekend. Enjoy!

That's all for now- I'll update again Thursday after my 4th of July BBQ!!! :)
XOXO
Joy