Good-bye Loudon Terrace

To catch up on the past few days:

July1-3  we packed up our flat while trying to provide some entertainment for our visiting friends
July 4-6 in Perth to start tour of Macbeth castles (more on this later)


July 1
Liam's Birthday!

We spent the day sorting and packing, but managed to squeeze in some time for cake!  Our friends Kate, John, Connor and Claire arrived in the late evening, so there was lots of late night chatting for the kids and shushing from the parents.

July 2
Our friends took our boys off for a soggy walk to the Kelvingrove Museum, while Liam and I packed and cleaned some more.  The next set of friends, Tanya, Jamie, Anna and Mckenna arrived in time for dinner and some more late night silliness.

July 3
Cormac and Declan escorted everyone to the Hunterian Museum, while we again cleaned and packed the flat.  But we were done by midday, so had lunch with the gang at Mother India Cafe and then tried to go to the Cathedral, but it was closed due to the Queen's visit the next day.  Pizza and salad for dinner at Zizzi ( a great place for a party of 12!), then off to see Romeo and Juliet in Botanic Gardens.   It was a great production -- outside under a tarp (necessary due to rain throughout performance) -- set in modern times with lots of violence, many sexual references and some drug use (a little inappropriate for the under 12 set we had with us).  The actors, especially Romeo, were excellent and ended up covered in mud by the end of the play (oh yeah, and all dead of course, except for Benvolio who in this production was creepily lurking in the background of every scene watching what was going on?!?).

 July 4
We start off to Perth and our Macbeth tour.   So, good-bye Loudon Terrace, our home for six months!! And onward to the Highlands!