Brittish Weekend

It was completely unintentional, but Heidi, Betsy and I ended up having a theme weekend a couple of weeks ago. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was the last show of our Broadway season, so we headed off to Salt Lake. Heidi was already there, and Betsy met her early for some shopping and dinner. I met them at Elizabeth's Tea Shop, and had a delicious chocolate cake. Then it was over to the Capitol Theatre to enjoy the flying car. (Truly Scrumptious was truly annoying. She went all opera on fun songs like Toot Sweets. Dumb! Other than that, it was a very fun show!) Driving home in the pouring rain, through Lake Road Construction was super exciting. I was grateful and amazed to arrive home unscathed.

Notice the sign for Chitty. That's the only picture I got.

Saturday, Heidi and I met Betsy at the Scottish Festival and Highland Games at Thanksgiving Point. We watched the games for awhile. It was entertaining to see the girls try to toss the caber, and we were sad that none of them were able to get it over. We also watched weight over the bar competition and the sheaf toss.

Best female attempt at caber toss.

Sheaf Toss

After watching the games, we had worked up quite an appetite. We were surprised to see booths for Navajo Tacos, Smoothies, Hot Dogs, etc. We wanted to go authentic, but I couldn't "stomach" the idea of Haggis (ha ha...get it? Stomach. I crack myself up!), so I went for a meat pie. Steak and mushroom. It was delish! Way better than it looks in the picture.

My meat pie. Mmm Mmm.

After lunch we walked around and checked out the booths. I was delighted to find out that I have a clan. Thanks to my Grandma Olsen, I am part of the Drummond Clan. I even got a picture of my tartan. Yay!!!

All about the Drummond Clan

We watched some cute little dancers, but quickly grew tired of listening to the piper play the same song for every dance. We stood in a really long line to get some root beer in fancy bottles (the root beer was not good), and just after we got our drinks, the sky opened up and the rain fell in buckets. We made a quick dash for the car, and by the time we got in, there were rivulets of water running off my arms and legs. Thanks to the heated seats in my car, I was all warm and toasty by the time I got home. It was a WAY fun weekend. Thanks for helping me get in touch with my roots girls!!!