We're back!

We're back from our honeymoon...actually, we were back a week ago, but we have been very busy taking care of business and cleaning this place up from the absolute wreck it became after the wedding. It was clean before my mom got here! Really!

Honeymoon highlights:

• The Highlands. Holy cow, are they beautiful. Even prettier in July than in March, which is the time of year B and I visited.
• Super nice hosts in Stirling with the cutest little dog named Pip!
• Stirling Highland Games. What a fun piece of culture to see!
• The Isle of Arran. Our B&B rocked (it should have, for the dough we shelled out!) and had a four-poster bed, jacuzzi tub and separate sitting room. Plus the scenery on the Isle was amazing, and we had a 3 1/2 hour long gourmet dinner at our hotel the first night. Incredible.
• Edinburgh...need I say more?
• Castles, castles, more castles. Python fans take note: Doune Castle is awesome.
• The British library in London. Originals from the Magna Carta to the First Folio of Shakespeare to a letter from Darwin to the original Alice in Wonderland to Beatles lyrics. Incredible.

Honeymoon stories to tell:

• London bombings. We were there, as D has posted.
• Really small showers. What's up with that?
• Flushing toilets like Niagara Falls. You had to close the lid to keep the whole bathroom from getting wet!
• Yes, we both tried haggis and black pudding. Conclusion: not bad, but certainly not breakfast food.

I'm sure there are more that I'm not thinking of, but I really must go and get some more things done around here. Changing insurance, name, bank accounts...the list goes on and on. Quite a pain, actually. It's good to be home, though, even though we have too short a time until school starts again.

No picture proofs yet. I'm hoping that the longer wait means better pictures. I'm getting really impatient!