Highland Games

Today we lazed about the trailer for a long time, but we finally decided to check out the Highland Games. It's not that we didn't want to go, but sometimes a long drive is a bit of a deterrent to the most interesting of events. I suppose it seems weird for me to say that since we're like the road trip family. We haven't actually been on the road since September.

Anyway, I was looking forward to the games themselves, but I wasn't sure if Zorah would be into them. Then since we left home so late, I wasn't sure if the competitions would still be running. I was in luck on both counts. The games were still on, and Zorah was intrigued. We arrived just in time for the start of women's caber tossing. Shown below is Mindy Pockoski, the ultimate victor. I guess she is kind of a celebrity on the highland games circuit and holds the record for Weight Over Bar, which is a kettle ball throwing competition. The caber weighs about 70 pounds, if I remember right.

After the caber competition was over, we took a break to get something to eat, which we brought back to the athletic field. Zorah had a sausage roll, and I a chicken pot pie from Heritage Meatpies. Yum! Those pies alone made the 40 minute drive worthwhile. Seriously!

We didn't stay for much longer than it took to finish the pies. The games were winding down, the booths held nothing of interest, and the foodstands were closing up. Zorah lucked into a huge pile of ice someone had dumped out of their cooler, so she stamped about in it for a long while, crushing all the clumps. When someone announced closing ceremonies, however, I got her to the car to avoid traffic.

When we got home, Zorah drew these two pictures. I really liked the care she took to make sure everything was colored in, with no white patches. Usually she just scrabbles through the coloring part.