A Touch Of Royalty!

Janet was so excited!  This is the 150 Anniversary of the Victoria Highland Games.  They have never attended previously, but Janet was always curious.  Turns out this year, Prince Andrew came to officiate the games!  Janet loves, loves, loves the Royal Family.  Super bonus - Phil's friend/client is a super important person at the Highland Games, so he gave Janet and Phil a heads up as to where the Prince would be wandering.

There were some seriously strong, large men there.

Here is Prince Andrew with Phils' friend Randy Stewart and in the Six Degrees of Separation Department, the man the Canadian Naval uniform is Simon, who is from the UK and transferred from the British Navy to the Canadian Navy and used to live next door to us.  Janet said they were so close to the Prince on three separate occasions, she could have reached out and touched him!

Janet said there was lots going on and they didn't know it at the time, but this Pipe Band (they now know this means Bagpipe Band) were getting ready to greet the Prince.

There was way, way more going on.  Janet and Phil watched some Sheepherding trials.  Cousin Brad and Girlfriend Kim said they watched the Duck Herding and told Janet it was really cute.

We aren't sure if we are cut out for this kind of work.  Janet said they listen to small whistle sounds to tell the puppy to go left or right or lie down.  I might be able to swing this, but there isn't a hope in hell (...OK...I'm goin' for the bad words!) that Noodles will listen.  Having said that...will I be afraid of the sheep?  Sadly, I probably will be.

They also watched some very large, strong men participating in the event they guessed was the  "tossing the huge stone" competition.  Prince Andrew stayed the entire time and chatted with all the competitors.  We think Prince Andrew sounds like a great guy!

See the big stone in the air?

This might be more our style!

No new baby yet at our house, but we did see a super cute puppy at the beach today!