On Tuesday, we drove out to Castle Stuart to meet Mark and Dede Parsinen for lunch. It has been ages since we have seen them. We caught up on much of their news. Mark continues to spend about 6 months out of the year at Castle Stuart. They still have the hotel to build and another golf course on the property. He gave us a CD that explains the "journey" in developing the golf course.

About 2pm we left and drove into Inverness. Reminisced about our times in 2006 with Branduin here in Inverness with us. After finally finding a car park, we walked across the River Ness in search of the Abertarff House which is suppose to be the association that preserves the Gaelic language and culture. We found the house next to Hootananny's but it is closed to public. Hootannany's was playing Scottish Music that night but it didn't begin until 9:30 and so we decided to skip it.


I stopped at the Kiltmakers store. They had this lovely design of the scottish thistle which I thought would make a lovely quilt. Also they had some information of the McPhail's for Linda Redman....McPhails are of the Cameron Clan.
The Oak is the symbol for the Cameron Clan.


We stopped for a 1/2 pint and a rest



Then we went back across the river to explore the museum.
They had this tartan on the floor so you could try your hand at putting on the Scottish Cape.

Came back to the flat and I cooked spaghetti and meatballs. Easy.

Wednesday we got up to play golf at Castle Stuart. We received a phone call from Bill MacEwen and because of the bad weather he was not going to play golf.

I thought we had a picture of Dick and I playing the 8th hole in the pouring rain, but apparently the caddie did not get the picture as the battery was again dead.

Castle Stuart is wonderful. Because the conditions were so difficult the scoring and the vistas were not all that they would normally be. I shot a 50 on the front with several 3 putts and a 46 on the back with a couple of pars.

It was great to play the course. We have another time set for Saturday, but the weatherperson tonight said that it would be rain on the weekend. So we shall see.