Firbush(phew, almost caught up!)

Okie doke, I'm not gonna say a whole lot about the Arcadia Firbush trip, you can go and see what Renee has to say about it. But there are a few things that I would like to include. One of them being that on Saturday, Renee and I woke up early.. although managed not to see each other and had a bit of quiet time, etc. so I wandered around the woods a bit and I saw two fawns hoping through the undergrowth. They were so cute and I managed to take a somewhat decent picture of one of them.. it was rather difficult considering the time it took to turn the camera on and the shutter delay.. can't wait for my new camera!


The other thing was the Saturday night Ceildh. So good. Did I ever mention that I love Ceildhs? I do. Alot. Anyhow.. I got these pictures in a really nerdy way.. hehe, my friend Skander is in my Solid Mechanics class and he asked me if I had a USB flash drive with me and I did, so he downloaded them off his little Mac before class started.. I miss Mudders. Anyhow, here are some pictures.

In this one, the guy that was leading it wanted to show how do to one of the waltzes and had discerned in the dance before that I had a good idea of what I was doing, so he told everyone that I had never done it before and then we proceeded to do it... it was partially true, I had only ever danced the man part in that dance...hehe. Anyway then everyone was all oohhs and aahhs. I just like dancing.. I don't really enjoy the exhibition part though.. I think that is why I like swing so much because it is so much more of a social than a strictly competitive thing.. which is kinda weird because I am really competitive normally...hmm something to ponder.




In this picture, a lady they brought in that knew a bunch of Scottish cultural stuff is doing a dance, and then she taught it to us. It was really fun and I bet really funny to watch.

(Renee looks incredibly confused... hehe... you can't deny that one land kayaker!)


There was also this awesome bagpiper dude, and Skander got an awesome picture of him.



This guy was one of my favorites.. if you were to picture an old Scottish man, this would be him, he recited Robert Burns (the national poet of Scotland) poems, including Ode to Haggis, but instead of a haggis, it was a melon..hehe.

And the coup de resistance.. the girl and the guy (I really should remember their names) did the awesomest sword dance ever. It apparently originated when the victor of a battle would cut off the loser's head and then take his sword and the loser's sword and dance over them in a victory dance. Thankfully, no one's head got cut off, but it was definitely super cool!