snow! snow! snow!

Just a quick video of the snow from my window.  It's snowed about 4 or 5 inches here... which is a ton for Scotland!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

It has been snowing here for the past couple of days!  Everything is so pretty, white, and beautiful!  They also just opened up the Christmas Markets... which is literally right now the stairs from my building.  Mulled wine and tasty treats are just steps away!

 Mulled wine with my marketing girls... Cerise, Simone, Gyte, Nazym, & Dasha

 

Hot... Fresh... Pretzel!  (That's for you, Drew!)

 

Shops, Lights, rides, ice-skating rink, food!

A nutcracker army!!!

Biergarten...

Beer!

Snowy day... view from my window

Rugby!

I went to my first rugby match last weekend.  It was so much fun!  I will definitely try to get to another match before the season is over.  It was typical Scottish weather -- cold and rainy!  But we still had fun.  Scotland won!  So that was definitely a bonus. 

Simone forced me to take this picture.  Ugh.

My Marketing girls (plus 1)!  Dasha, Simone, Cerise, Cerise's friend (?), Nazym & Gyte!

Murray Field Stadium

Players doing something rugby-ish... I have no idea.

Weird food in Scotland... part 2

here's round two!

You can buy these a lot of places.  I don't think I'm on board...

However... small fish balls may be calling your name!

This can also be purchased at my local grocery store.  Weird.

 

Simon Pegg!!!

So now that Meredith has officially received her birthday present, I can post these pictures! :)  I went to a book signing for Simon Pegg's new book... 'Nerd Do Well'.  I've started reading it, and it's pretty funny so far!  I look super gross in the pictures, but who cares!  I met Simon Pegg and I made him laugh... not once, but TWICE!  I can die happy now.

Here's Mere's book!  I told him that she loved Nick Frost, and I asked him to 

put his # in there... but it didn't work.  At least I tried!

On my book, I got a 'Love'.  Woot! Woot! I think it's just because his

wife is also named Maureen.  Whatever... I'll take it!

rainbow connection

I took a trip out to Glasgow with some of my friends for a little bit of shopping this weekend.  It's been so gloomy and rainy this whole week (better than snow!)... but we did get to see this amazing rainbow on the trip!  It was a little hard to capture on a fast moving train... but still pretty! :)

more pics from the hairy coo tour

So here are some other pictures from the tour.  We went to the William Wallace monument (aka Braveheart), Doune Castle (where Monty Python & the Holy Grail was filmed... never seen the movie, don't judge me), a national park, and then to see some hairy coos (which you have already seen).  And no, I did not actually buy the hat you will see below... but it matched my hair perfectly.  :)

The Wallace monument

Little Willy Wallace

Doune Castle (the sun was way too bright to get a good pic)

Mary & I at Doune Castle -- complete with hairy coo hats 

Ahhh, the Highlands...

So beautiful

Hairy Coos!

I went on a Highland tour over the weekend called The Hairy Coo Tour.  It was pretty fun!  We drove around to a few places, took some pictures, but most importantly... we saw some hairy coos! :)  Basically, coo means cow in Scottish Gaelic, and they're really hairy.  Once you see a pic you'll understand.

How cute are they?!?

Check out those bangs...

Baby #1... adorable

Baby #2... so cute!

And the most famous hairy coo... HAMISH!  Check out those horns... he means business!

 More pictures from the tour to come... just wanted to post the adorable hairy coo pictures first! :)