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[Edwina's Secretary]

I'll be in Killearn (if Karen will let me use her computer, of course.) ;)

:D :D :D :D

[ramanth]

This is me.... green with envy. :p :D

[Karen]

Have a wonderful, wonderful time! Wave hello to the sheep for me, and of course hand out skritchies and hugs to the KillearnKitties household!

[Killearn Kitties]

Of course you can use the computer (so long as you log on as yourself :D :D :D) It will be something for you to do during the night if your body clock is still on California time!

Samantha has inspected your room to make sure it is up to scratch. She seems quite comfortable, ehm, I mean satisfied. I will have to go back to cleaning now. ;)

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

This is me.... green with envy. :p :D
Ditto!

Be sure to take (and post) lots and lots of pics....and don't forget pics of those 3 adorable gray girls! :D

[Killearn Kitties]

Camera battery was charged today! :D

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Camera battery was charged today! :D
Battery??? I'm hoping it will take batteries. ;) Either that or I hope the battery charges really really fast! ;) :D

[Randi]

I am green with envy too. ;)

Hope you both will have a great time, can't wait to hear about the Destillery cat visit - and of course to see pics of your other outings, and the three grey beauties. :)

Have fun!! :D

[gini]

Sara, have a wonderful time together. And yes, of course, we want to see lots of photos.

Have a safe trip!

[slick]

WHAT????!!!! You are going to the UK and not taking me?????
**pout** **pout**
All joking aside Sara, I hope you have an absolutely fabulous time and I expect that when you get back, you will be able to "name those kitties" with your eyes closed. Please, take lots and lots of pictures to share. Give Karen a big {{{hug}}} from me and kiss those precious furbabies for me.

See you next year Karen??? ;)

[Killearn Kitties]

See you next year Karen??? ;) Oh that would be so good! I wish all of you were coming with Sara! Another day maybe. :D

[momoffuzzyfaces]

sigh!!!

Color me green with envy too!!!

Have a great time!!!

E and E you be on your best behavior now, you hear???
Just because your Secretary will be away, it's no excuse for you two to play (or cause mischief). Right Eddie? ;)

[Barbara]

Samantha has inspected your room to make sure it is up to scratch. She seems quite comfortable, ehm, I mean satisfied. I will have to go back to cleaning now. ;)

Sara won't be happy without some grey cat hair in her bed ;)

I tried so much to make it possible to go but it didn't work out :(
Have all the fun you can get :D

[Oggyflute]

Have a great time. Scotland is a truly beautiful place. :)

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

Scotland is a truly beautiful place. :)

It truly is!!! We went ther on our honeymoon ;) :)

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Have a great time! Look forward to seeing all the piccies!!

[Sonia59]

Oh great! We wait for pics :D

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Ok, not trying to rush things....but you must be there by now, Sara! As a matter of fact, you probably got there somtime this morning and have had a whole day under you belt already.

<tap, tap, tap>

[gini]

Yeah, out of sight, out of mind...............maybe she is just playing with the greys and can't tear herself away. :)

[ramanth]

Where are the pictures!? :p :rolleyes: :D

[Barbara]

Sara may be in Europe by now but it is evening (9.30 pm)- and I suppose we can't expect pics before tomorrow evening ;)

[gini]

Oh, but Barbara, we can nag her anyway can't we?? :D :D :D

[slick]

Hmmmm, I could get on the blower and call them.....but I guess I'll just leave them be. Can't imagine what they are up to right now. ;) :D

[Cataholic]

Come on, already!!! :D

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

<tap, tap, tappity tap tap>

[Randi]

All sorts of things could have happened, if they went to the distillery. :eek: Just imagine them around all these barrels of whisky! ;) ... and there's a very special cat there too. I bet they're chasing him to get some pictures for us! :D

In any case, Karen and Sara, it's about time to check in here and give a report!!! Then again, they may not be able to type! ;)

[Edwina's Secretary]

Hello....photos will wait until I get home....but here's my report (I really didn't post this before?????)

Let's see....distillery, castle, gardens, Royal Yacht Brittania, food, wine, food, wine, food....did I mention wine?

European keyboards are so difficult for me to type on.....I promise a full report when I get home!

Just believe me when I say I am having a GREAT time....and I have seen all three gray ladies....albeit NOT up close and personal!

[Barbara]

Food and wine on the Royal Yacht Britannia? Did I get this right?
As we all know our ES is the most royalist of Southern Californians could it be possible the Queen had you over for a little party? ;)

[slick]

Well, it's about time you checked in Sister!!! What's all this about Royal parties on the Poop Deck?? :D :D

Castles and wine and food.....it's sounds like my idea of a vacation. Jet lag, or no jet lag....you'd better get those pictures posted as soon as you get home.

Please pass on {{{hugs}}} to Karen from me, OK? As for the grey ladies, if you can get close enough kiss them for me.

[Vio&Juni]

Awwwwww, that is great! I missed so many news while being on vacation!

I am sure you're having a great time. Did you get to see the cat at the distillery? Is it the same cute sweet orangie? Sara, good luck with petting the grey ladies, I didn't manage to.

Pictures, pictures....

[Edwina's Secretary]

The Queen has been rather busy with her birthday celebrations so we only had time for a quick tea. Then she was off with the Duchess of Kent (who was also at tea) for a game of tennis. As I am not partial to the Duchess of Cornwall (I just can't let go of the past! :rolleyes: ) she didn't attend.

I just enjoyed a bit of foot sniffing from Daisy this morning......she LOVES my travel slippers....

[Randi]

Sara, this is the trick: Put on some E45 and just sit close to either of them, they'll soon come running to lick your hand. ;) At least, that's what Fister does.

Hope you're all having great time, and I wish you a pleasant flight back! :)

[Killearn Kitties]

I delivered Sara to the airport this morning in one piece, and she is currently winging her way across the atlantic.

I don't have masses of pictures, but I do have a few and I promise I will resize etc today!

[Barbara]

Ok- so Sara will not have had enough time to recover from jetlag- she will have stayed in the Californian coordinate system. Now I'm waiting for the pics :)

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Yipeee!!! The promise of pics today is enough to make my day! :D

Karen, Barbara and Randi, maybe if all three of you face West and blow really really hard it will make Sara's plane get here a little quicker. The sooner she gets here the sooner we get pics! :D

Sounds like a good time was had by all. :D

[Barbara]

Karen, Barbara and Randi, maybe if all three of you face West and blow really really hard it will make Sara's plane get here a little quicker. The sooner she gets here the sooner we get pics! :D



Or all of you over there make a big slurp :D :p

[Edwina's Secretary]

Put on some E45 and just sit close to either of them, they'll soon come running to lick your hand. ;)

THE Queen and the Duchess will lick my hand.... :eek: :eek: :D :rolleyes:

I'm home but very, very tired.....

[Cinder & Smoke]

I'm home but very, very tired.....

Welcome back HOME!!

I suppose this "I'm tired ..." thing will be your excuse
for going to bed withOUT showing us any photos, huh?

NUTZ! :(

[gini]

Yeah, and she gained whole bunches of hours on the return trip. :D

[pnance]

Welcome home... :D

[Sonia59]

I suppose this "I'm tired ..." thing will be your excuse
for going to bed withOUT showing us any photos, huh?



It seems so :rolleyes: !

Welcome home :D No problem, we are patient, we wait for pics :D :)

[Killearn Kitties]

I'm really sorry that I didn't manage to get any pictures on last night myself. It was not my intention to send everyone to bed without pics. :D I know what it's like when you are eagerly awaiting updates!

The day before Sara arrived, Samantha took it upon herself to make sure that everything was up to scratch.

Fluffing up the duvet for auntie Sara

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p0f1050015a254be20e02329e0a5e9a6c/ef102984.jpg

I think auntie Sara will be comfortable enough
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p72db7b6214b5d9851b1e36e19f4aab95/ef10294f.jpg

Really mum, I think you're making too much of this. I'm helping!

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/pa1428860d62aa3f32431173751d84a2e/ef10295b.jpg

All done. What's the next task?

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p5f4b1035e37e4c0695c739ded147ba6f/ef102986.jpg

[Killearn Kitties]

I picked Sara up from the airport on Friday morning. It was a lovely sunny day, so we took a run up to the distillery that I posted about before, where Towser used to live. Glenturret (http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=82342&highlight=towser)

When they were "interviewing" for a distillery cat, they could not decide between Dylan and Brooke, so they took both. The last time I was at the distillery (with Vio), we saw Dylan.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p24af1e4f758a624d427151b74531e53a/ef102197.jpg

On Friday we met Brooke.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/pc936192dd43cdb8ec732b6f7ce4543e5/ef10294d.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p3851f693d806834dafe2f647c30fa871/ef10293d.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p0134a1072ff55e7b29ebcdee4c098e40/ef102921.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p1906b64a2a3397530b05b0e725839837/ef1028fc.jpg

It would seem that Brooke does not like to look directly at the camera. :D We didn't see Dylan this time. I think they work shifts.

On the way back home we visited Stirling Castle which is built on a rock and dominates the surrounding landscape, but I don't have a good picture of it. Perhaps Sara took one. This was the only one I took and it was more aimed at the flowers than the building.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/pf73a194786c5ba9000b7fa1e38ba6549/ef1028e9.jpg

[Killearn Kitties]

Saturday was also a beautiful day so we drove up the side of Loch Lomond and over to Inverary, where there is a garden to visit. The garden is old, but was only restored and opened to the public four years ago. It is not a formal garden, it is intended to look like a highland glen (valley).

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p9859cd562cbd05d98180e26c70e67495/ef1028c5.jpg

Eucalyptus

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p1b4bc636fa43a6dc60fbd04b275b0dd1/ef1028e7.jpg

Gunnera is a plant with giant leaves that thrives in damp shady conditions. It has a most unusual flower.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p1d4c076b593ae8b7159ab93ab8b2e49e/ef1028d7.jpg

This garden had the biggest cala lilies I have ever seen

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/pf4f869b4b541aab17ad9eca61b3d27a0/ef102882.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/pc1d249696a509574d203b1d41dc3c67a/ef10289d.jpg

Chatting among the dead daffodils

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p172dcbdca2877e5c07104b8fcb56166d/ef10284c.jpg

Alec and Sara admiring the view

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/pd696b2480695302d2f51035c06216bc2/ef102897.jpg

[Killearn Kitties]

Sunday was a horrible day, so we headed for Edinburgh hoping the weather might be better over there. It wasn't. We visited the decommissioned Royal Yacht, which is berthed at Leith, Edinburgh's port.

I'm holding the handset for the commentary, not a weapon!

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p23fe208c2313e9a9aac330bff807fd7b/ef102840.jpg

It really wasn't a nice day!

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p26d6f7c7b217c1806c6903d5e8aef8ff/ef102827.jpg

Just before we took this picture, a couple walked passed us eating ice creams! We didn't indulge.

Monday was a beautiful day again, but rather than any more sightseeing, we decided to go shopping! We had a very successful day in Glasgow. If only I had thought to take pictures of our purchases, I could have posted them! :D

[Barbara]

I am sooo sad I couldn't be with you!
I'm missing Scotland!
And you never took me to Glenturret :D

And I want to know EVERYTHING you have been shopping in Glasgow :D

[slick]

Wonderful pictures Karen. :)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p26d6f7c7b217c1806c6903d5e8aef8ff/ef102827.jpg
Sara, you look sooooo cold in this one. Must be that California blood. ;) :p Looks like typical Vancouver weather to me.

[gini]

Karen, just wonderful pictures. Sara, you DO look cold!

I am jealous too - the gardens are wonderful. The cala lillies are unbelievable. I have never seen any quite that large.

Sara, jet lag is the pitts - give yourself some time to readjust to the time change - and then we will be hounding you for your pictures.

[Randi]

Thanks for posting the pictures, they're really good!

Glad you got to see so many places - the garden looks wonderful! I take it you went inside the castle? What a fantastic building!

I see Sara is down on her knees for Brooke, he seems to be quite the hunter ... love that picture in the grass. :)

Although the weather was bad on the sunday, you seemed to have a lot of fun anyway. :D

A shopping trip in Glasgow? That must have benn quite the experience - did Sara understand anything they said? LOL! (I'm thinking of Rab C. Nesbitt)

Ps. You can still take pictures of the your purchases and post them. ;)

And now .... we're waiting for Sara's pictures and story!

[Barbara]

Sara, you look sooooo cold in this one. Must be that California blood. ;) :p

Make sure Sara sleeps before saying something like that to her :p :D

[Edwina's Secretary]

Slick....when will you come to SoCal again? I want to make sure I reserve the dueling grounds.....California blood indeed! If you could have seen the faces on Karen and Alec when they noticed I had both windows of my sleeping room wide open (central heating be damned!)

Speaking of Karen and Alec....they get the host and hostess with the mostess award. I had a most wonderful time. Karen filled you in on what we did and saw. It would take too long to describe what we ate and drank. Here are some photos.....

If you ask nicely you may get a front shot (or a Harley t-shirt.... ;) )
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p3c3341ed43412a1dcdc2c5059e4dc302/ef0faf36.jpg
Mickey...the neighborhood scamp
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p3d984b09a33ade2cfbe762fef883f74c/ef0fae81.jpg
You talking to me??????
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p94271083dd2aba89165ab25ee50e0c72/ef0f9c33.jpg
I mentioned eating....
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/pdc7b1280eb0fece4c2ca764ae2761316/ef0f9cc7.jpg

next post

[Edwina's Secretary]

and drinking
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p5399d85c7c8ecadd273b4b70fda53290/ef0f9c5c.jpg

A bit of California in Scotland...
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p6b957126368df4ef3af177a324f19a2d/ef0f8647.jpg

and my welcome home....
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/pdeaaece3645993909d297c5a567fd787/ef0f8bb0.jpg

a work in progress....here's my album...Scotland Album (http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2106506440&idx=3)

[Edwina's Secretary]

And the shopping. Thankfully I was only traveling with a carry-on bags. I could have spent a fortune. The fashions in Glasgow!!!!! The only diffiuclty....the sizing. It is larger. So, let's say... a US or Canada size 10...is a 12 there.

Now excuse me while I go cut some labels out.....

[Randi]

Of course, I went to see your album immediately, Sara. Great pictures! Love the one of Samantha - what a face she puts on!! LOL! Mickey looks like a real cutie. :)

What a fantastic scenery in the area, and that hunting lodge!! Wow! It would be perfect for a PT get together. I take it "The two bridges" is a typical pub - so cosy. :)

Love your garden, Karen, lots of space to relax in the sun - when it's out! ;)

I see you got welcomed by two curious cats, Sara. Another hat for Edwina's collection. LOL!

So tell me, did you manage to tell who was who? (Sam, Daisy and Jessica)

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Yeah, pictures!!!

Looks like a wonderful time was had by all! The gardens look lovely and Brooke is an absolute doll!

I'm also wondering if now that you've seen the gray girls in person if it's easier for you to tell them apart? ;)

Off to the album! :D

[Edwina's Secretary]

So tell me, did you manage to tell who was who? (Sam, Daisy and Jessica)

Samantha has a white stripe on her shoulders, Daisy has a nick in her ear and Jessica (who I saw the least) is more plush! :D :D :D

[ramanth]

Yay pictures! Looks like a fabulous time!

Someday I'll visit Scotland and Ireland...oh yes..someday...

[Sonia59]

Oh thanks for all the pics! It seems you have very good time! :)

Karen the pictures of Samantha made me laugh so much! What a good inspector you have! :D :rolleyes:

I would also love to visit Glenturret...I don't know why :rolleyes:

Sara, what did you do to Sam so that she looks at you so badly :confused: Did not bring her favorite treats? Pulled your camera out? Made her some shadow may be? :D

[Randi]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p94271083dd2aba89165ab25ee50e0c72/ef0f9c33.jpg
She says, "How dare you point that thing at me!! ;) LOL! Or perhaps Sara had a hat ready for Samantha. :eek:

[Vio&Juni]

Great pictures! It looks like you all had a very good time :)

That Mickey, he's such a handsome boy!

I think you took Sam by surprise here - did you take this picture from the window? She has a very pretty furcoat :)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid205/p94271083dd2aba89165ab25ee50e0c72/ef0f9c33.jpg

[Killearn Kitties]

:D That's an excellent photo you got of sweet Samantha!