Payson Scottish Festival

Remember when I thought I was going to the Thanksgiving Point Scottish Festival a week after my surgery? Yeah, totally didn't happen.  To make up for it, my friend George told me about the Payson Scottish Festival.  So I took off work, determined to see some bagpipes this summer.

We spent about four hours wandering around, watching Highland Games competition and pipe and drum groups.  We missed the highland dancing, but that wasn't a big deal.

The best part of the whole thing? I walked around, all afternoon, without limping or pain.  I sat on bleachers, on the ground, and stood for more than five minutes at a time.

It's little things like this that remind me every day why I had the surgery in the first place.

Gigantic root beer bottle!  

Caber toss

Pipe and drum competition