The Scottish Festival

Hellooooo Everyone! 

I realize I have not done a cooking tutorial in a VERY long time for you all. But, I promise there is one coming next week! Since my husband (I love saying that!) and I returned from our wedding, things have been quite busy around our house! From unpacking, finding places for all our wedding gifts, writing thank you notes, and my husbands birthday this week, we have been SUPER busy! It has almost been a month since we got married, where has the time gone!? 

Speaking of my husbands birthday, he decided this year that he wanted to go to the Scottish festival out at Boone Hall Plantation this past weekend. Boone Hall is one of my favorite places in the Charleston area. It's so beautiful, and it's so great to see that it is still in full production after so many years. Fun fact: Boone Hall was where a good amount of the movie The Notebook by Nicolas Sparks was filmed. Other parts were filmed around the Charleston area including Seabrook Island, and also parts of downtown Charleston were used as well!

We had a surprisingly fun time at the festival! We weren't expecting it to be as large as it was, but it was a successful first outing as a married couple. Here are some photos to recap the day:

Boone Hall in all its beauty!

I believe this is the old building where their cotton gin use to be.

The gardens.

 

 Field of cotton.

 Pole throwing contest, not only for adults!

 Children's wrestling as well, which was interesting.

 These girls could dance so well! It almost made me want to learn to do it myself!

 We came upon a WWII reenactment group. I didn't realize there was a small Hitler figure until I went back through these photos.

 The guys were all dressed in what the men would have wore back then, which was great! It made me want to go home and watch Band of Brothers again.

If you look closely, this guy is winding up for the hammer throw!

Lastly, we watched and listened to a little Scottish music! 

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! If you ever get the chance to head out to this plantation, make sure afterwards you stop at their farm stand, not even a mile from the plantation. They have the best homemade ice cream! It's very refreshing after walking around all day!

-A