Shallowford Presbyterian Youth: American Touring Choir Claims Nessy Sighting Despite Fog and Light Drizzle

Another great day yesterday. We boarded the bus bright and early for our longest bus ride of the tour so far at just over two hours time to Inverness. As we made our way closer and closer to Inverness, the fog and rain started to roll in and we just knew that these were going to make for ideal Nessy spotting conditions on Loch Ness. We met up with the Wikle and Thatcher families and boarded the boat for our short cruise over to Urqhart castle and back.

Several of the kids are still convinced that they saw "something" amidst the white caps and shadows. We didn't manage to get any pictures of her, but we did get some great shots of the youth.

Aside from running on castle walls, throwing the frisbee on the grass, and swimming in the frigid lake, we almost managed to stay out of trouble at the castle this time. Boys will be boys. After our tours, it was off to Crown Church. This is a wonderful church who has hosted us before so we knew what to look forward to. After dinner in our host homes, we gathered back at the church for a Ceilidh.

We listened to them sing, and recite poetry, watched them do some of the more difficult traditional dances, and then they taught us many of the familiar group dances. After about thirty minutes the awkward, middle school dance, boys on one side girls on the other, I don't dance feeling had disappeared and everyone covered the dance floor. It was a wonderful celebration.