H and I had a very lovely long weekend, which began after I got out of work Wednesday. We were joined by Kathryn, my good friend from NYC. She'd been travelling the far reaches of the world so of cource Grand Rapids was next on her list :)
We showed her the sights of GR, including the misting pool at Rosa Parks. H loved it so much he threw his hat into it...
Not much was on the agenda outside of taking it easy. We did a lot of that. But Friday evening we joined my visiting sister Kellie and my mom for the ride up to Alma to experience the one and only Highland Festival! Did you know Alma is Scotland, USA?
Well it is:) We have fond memories of visiting my Abuelita's house in Alma and watching the parade and highland games.
Complete with bloody marys :)
We had great seats thanks to my Uncle. HP got a great view of the parade.
Many different views of the parade :)
Which actually didn't turn out to be a great thing...
It sounds crazy and it was really surreal, but we witnessed a freak accident at that parade. One of the floats carrying several passengers tripped up and literally ran over a woman walking alongside of it. She is okay (as far as I know) but she most definately went under a wheel and was trapped under that float for at least 30 minutes before being carted off in the ambulance.
And then everything went back to normal.
Yeah, crazy.
Speaking of crazy, have you ever seen a caber toss? The different clansmen tried their hands at tossing a giant log (like a telephone pole).
The strong man gets the "pick", then does the caber dance to get his balance before tossing it upwards to make it flip over. Some were successful, some not.
It was a fun-filled, dramatic week :)
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