Tara is away this weekend after getting a last minute call from her yoga friends/teachers to see if she wanted a spot at a yoga seminar in St. Andrews! From what I hear, she is having a great time, and I will let her post about it later :)

I wandered about downtown all day and had an excellent dinner at a "gourmet" burger restaurant in the Merchant City called Ad Lib. We are packing up on Monday and leaving our babies for a week when we visit my parents in Truckee, CA. We are helping crew my dad as he runs 100 miles (crazy?) in the Western States 100. We are debating taking a trip to a few countries in Europe at the beginning of July rather than stay in the UK (Wimbledon anyone?) and enjoy our short time left. Tara is leaving at the end of July, followed closely by the cats, and then myself :)

Back to Dallas we go....in a way it's exciting, but honestly, I'm quite sad. I love it here in Scotland. Sure we have had our complaints, but overall, I love it here. I will miss the walking (even though I don't like it), and I will miss trekking home in the rain while eating overly salted chips and brown sauce. Glasgow is such a vibrant city with a lot to see and do. Most of all, I think I will miss that Scotland is mine and Tara's. Not literally of course, but since very early on in our relationship (2001), this has been our place in the world. I've definitely felt privileged to have lived here for the past year, though it hardly seems like a year.

Not time to get sad yet. There is lots more to see before we go :)

lots of new photos up from Tara's parents visit to Scotland! We've been all over Scotland lately....and may I say, we live in an AMAZINGLY, gorgeous country....

http://picasaweb.google.com/openintro/InScotland

updates soon! I promise!

long time no blog! it has been a while and a lot has gone on....this is NOT the blog to catch you up :) this is a blog to say hello and we are still alive! ha...tara and i promise to catch everyone up on our travels and our goings on. we are currently in san antonio (back in the states!) right now. we came over before easter and fly back on thursday! we have enjoyed our time here very much, as it was needed. we were both homesick and in need of mexican food! la fogata always does the trick! we are also getting to enjoy some of the Fiesta events while we are here as well! but we are definitely missing our kitties and we know they miss us.

well, we hope a few of you are still checking in on us. we will post some big news for you in the next few days! cheers!

Here are the pictures from our amazing and surreal trip to Australia....

http://picasaweb.google.com/openintro/Australia

A blog about the trip coming this weekend!

So we are in Melbourne, Australia now....it was quite the trip over to say the least. Almost 24 hours of flying....Glasgow to Dubai (right along the border of Iraq), Dubai to Singapore and then Singapore to Melbourne....we got in at 3am and we were on a tour bus today at 8:45am to head to an animal sanctuary and a couple of wineries! This city is amazing....and the weather is SPECTACULAR! I think I want to move to Melbourne....

I just registered for the Main Event and I play on Day 1B, which is on Monday! Excited? Yes. Nervous? A little.....but I feel pretty confident. All the big name pros are here....

Tara and I are both very tired so I think we are going to take a nap, so we will have A LOT more to post later....including all that we did our first day in Australia as well as the exciting events on our trip over that led to the following pictures!

One of my main New Year's Resolutions is going to be to update the blog at LEAST once a week in 2007 so as to keep everyone in the loop! We have lots to update you on including a great holiday with the family in Scotland....and lots of pictures to show as well! Will say it all in 2007! :)

We will be in Edinburgh for the New Year's Eve Celebrations! WOO! Everyone have fun and be safe!