Celtic Heritage Festival

Yesterday the family and I went to the local Celtic Heritage Festival! We heard a band of bagpipes play, which was amazing! I LOVE bagpipes! Everyone seems to think they are only for sad occasions but I would've had them at our wedding! Listening to the bagpipe music made me feel one with my heritage and like we were actually in Scotland! My dream of going to Scotland (or even living there) just got stronger. It felt like the music went straight to my soul and it was awesome. We also got to see some arts and crafts inspired by Celtic tradition, including clothing! Last year we went and I bought a tote purse, I still use it today! We also got to see a Celtic horse show. :) Let me tell you I found my new favorite horses! They are just majestic looking: Clydesdales, and other draft horses and ponies, all with long tails and manes and hair around their hooves! Ugh I just love them! :) Yet another piece of history we got to witness...the hammer throw, weight throw, weight over the bar, and sheaf toss! We did miss my favorite one though: the caber toss (a tall trunk of a tree and men throw it!)

I love being Scottish! I have other bits of heritage in me, some bigger than Scottish, but I feel most in love with Scotland.

My grandma is awesome too, she knows our family tartan (the pattern on kilts, it tells which person belongs to which family) and she can make it! When I have the time in August she said she'd help me learn to make it and make a scarf! I'm very excited. She can and has made other patterns of tartans for other families! One time she (along with one of my aunts) made fabric with someone else's pattern and they had it sent off to be made into a kilt. When they got it back the company sent a letter saying that was some of the finest fabric they've ever worked with!! I think that is something to be very proud of! Which I am.

I am sad and I'm sure you all are too that I did not get any pictures of the bagpipe players or anything else, but soon I will have more pictures up of our adventures!