Sunday, July 19, 2015

Our last full day in Scotland so we made the most of it by heading back over to the course to take in the 3^rd round of The Open. The final round wouldn’t be played until Monday, thanks to the weather delays the day before. It would have been really fun to stay and see it but our tickets were already set in stone so home we will go!

We wandered the course, took in all the views and, of course, the golf! By the end of the day, the boys were both asleep and we think the pictures of our last day at The Open are a perfect testament to just how much fun we all had. So much fun that it was truly exhausting, but in only the best of ways.

Monday, July 20

Back home we go! We got caught up on as much laundry as we could in the rental house and packed everything (at least I hope we packed everything!) to get ready to head to the airport bright and early. Our flight left at 10:45 am local time and it was just over an hour drive from the house to the airport. It was sad saying goodbye to “New home” as Will called it (also “Number 6” because that was the number on the door of 6 Queens Street).

The kids did really well on the flight thanks to snacks and movie watching and we arrived home safe and sound at 12:45 pm CST (which was almost bed time for the boys on Scotland time). We kept the boys up until as close to their normal bedtimes as possible (which was after 11 pm Scotland time!) and then I crashed shortly thereafter, followed by Erik after a quick phone call with his boss. I didn’t realize just how much I missed our bed in our room in our house until we were home snuggled back under our blankets. I slept great, as did Erik and the kids. We woke up the next morning with our memories from a fantastic trip and a ton of pictures to look back on from our once in a lifetime trip to St. Andrews, The Open and Edinburgh.