Dave attended the Congress and I rested at the hotel (with my new wool & knitting needles and BBC and ITV). On Thursday, Dave attended the Court of the Lord Lyon before returning to the hotel to join me for dinner. The Lord Lyon King of Arms is a judge under Scottish law and regulates heraldry in Scotland (no, really...I heard that he once sent out men with chisels to remove a coat of arms from a bridge because it hadn't been approved yet...)
and on Friday, Dave attended lectures and, in the evening, we attended the Congress Banquet in the Great Hall, where we enjoyed a wonderful dinner and visited with friends.
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| Robert Watt (Canada, former Chief Herald)) |
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| Dave and Jo |
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| Darrel Kennedy (Canada) |
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| Claire Boudreau (Canada, Chief Herald) |
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| Richard Num (Australia) |
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| Jo, with Robert and Alison Watt |
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| our Piper, Gordon Casely |
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| Bruce Patterson (Canada), Jo and Dave |
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| Alex Maxwell Findlater (Scotland) |
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| Sylvia Sagerlund with her dinner companions |
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| d"Arcy Boulton (Canada) |
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| Elizabeth Roads (Scotland) |
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| Jo with Jenny Baker (England) |
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| Jo with Ronny Andersen and Maibritt Zuschke (Denmark) |
We really missed some of our friends that couldn't attend this year, but it was a wonderful evening and we got to say good-byes to our friends who were not joining the groups on the following days for area tours.
