Ceras Highland games...

Wow, so we're creeping up into July which means the OPEN is only a couple of weeks away. This week Candice has been on the job hunt, everyday going into town and checking out the job centre for new jobs. She has got two interviews this week so far. One of them being with St Andrews Links, so she could be working for the same company as me, the difference will be is that she will be in retail if she is the successful applicant. The other interview she has is with another retail store selling clothing and accessories.

Well the week just been was filled with bright sunny days. Actually I don't even think there was a grey day last week. Being daylight when I wake up at 4.30am makes it so much easier to get up in the mornings. Today I was just in a t-shirt and work pants by 6am.

Besides playing golf 4 times last week on Saturday Candice, myself and Lewis went to Ceras for the Highland games. It's pretty much a fair where Scottish culture is embraced and showcased. Ceras is about 20 minutes drive from St Andrews and the drive is amazing. I accidentally took a wrong turn but I'm glad I did. It was such a scenic drive. I light green landscape with yellow fields plotted here and there it really was quite picturess.

Finally we got there after some skilled navigation. It was just at the local football ground where there were stalls of food and merchandise, I even saw one stall selling "Paua shell from the shores of New Zealand" and on the actual field is where they were held the games such as log throwing, sprints, hammer throw etc. Lynda - You would've loved one of the stalls, It had a whole range of different kind of shortbreads to try, I thought of you when I saw the stall.





Across the road from the field was a car park lot where they had fire trucks and merry go rounds and other games and rides. I won a soccer ball which I'm pretty wrapped about.

Now I had my ball it was 1pm and the pipe band was about to start there march into the field so they kicked off and we watched them march around the field then onto the stage. It was pretty cool hearing and seeing a whole band with bag pipes and drums marching around the place. Apparently St Andrews has a highland games too which is in August and is about 5 times bigger.

Following the highland games we decided to head home and we went the proper way back and it did only take about 20 minutes to get home oppose to the 40 minutes it took to get there. Once we got home a game of butthead was on the cards which is where we wear velcro hats and we throw balls at each others head and they stick to the hat. Then it was off to the local bar for a few drinks.

Nick, Sam, Me and Ally at the Rule


Butthead


Well... That's about it for me this week, didn't really get up to much excited stuff this week besides lots of golf. Michael Cambell is playing golf tomorrow at Kingsbarn which is just up the road as it's the qualifying round for the OPEN so I might check out how he goes. Although I hope he doesn't remember me from when I was at Gulf Harbour and during the NZ Open my phone went off during his swing... OOPS.