Father's Day Part 1

My family treated me to such a great Father's Day this year that it won't all fit into one post.

Here's part 1:

On Saturday we drove up to Franklin, NC for the Scottish festival that they hold each Father's Day weekend.   This was our first visit to this event and it was great.  Downtown Franklin is beautiful and they had plenty to see.

We ate some Scottish themed items for lunch including bridie and meat pies before we did anything else.

After lunch we checked out some of the vendors and listened to some bagpipes.  Yes, they played Amazing Grace.

Some of the other highlights included these strong guys wearing skirts throwing a 50lb weight in a field:

Some dogs rounding up sheep while being directed mostly by whistle:

And cutting rocks in half at the gem museum:

We also spent several hours in the pool when we got to the hotel.  We figured we would wear them out but it turned out that the adults fell asleep first that night.

 Oh, I almost forgot.  Funnel cake.  You can't say you attended a festival if you didn't have a plate of funnel cake.

Our trip was off to a great start!  Sunday would bring even more adventure!