Darrell & Sharyn

We went out to the Enumclaw Highland Games the weekend of July 24-26. For the last two years, we have only gone down on Saturday, but this year we decided to go ahead and make a weekend of it and let Edward experience his first camping trip. Lorna joined us and we hung out together. It was a bit of a rough weekend as Edward was way to excited to sleep in the tent. He just wanted to keep going and going. What a little energizer bunny. After a very rough friday night, Saturday night went a lot better. We had a blast at the games. Darrell got to experience playing in the mass bands and then he even stayed on Sunday while Lorna, Edward and I went home. It was a very wet trip as there was more rain than in years past.

For the 4th of July, the Washington Scottish Pipe Band played in the Bothell parade. After the parade, they had a BBQ in a nearby park. We had fun chilling out at the BBQ and then afterwards, we took a little bike ride along the Centennial Trail.

Darrell and his mom before the day:

Darrell made a cherry pie for the BBQ:

The park at the end of our bike ride:

Our first Highland Games of this summer was the Tacoma Games. We were super excited to go and Edward was looking forward to hearing the Bagpipes and the drums.

Mass Bands!

Around the Games

Washington Scottish Pipe Band prepping for competition

Someone had a full day:

And on our way home, we got to see an amazing sunset.

Since Darrell joined a piping group last year, we have been heading to a lot of different bagpipe events. Summer is the kickoff for the Highland Games. There are probably Highland games every weekend, though his group isn’t going to attend each and every one. Tacoma was their first one. They have gotten a little small and are trying to get some recruiting done at them. Here are some photos from the day. It was a very soggy day. 🙂

We bought Edward a little foam sword and he loves it!

They let Darrell join in on the Massed Band. It was his first time and he was really excited and nervous about it. Can you spot him?