I got a random Email from a couple of old high school friends on Friday saying they were in Edinburgh but leaving on Sunday, so of course I went over on Saturday! Turns out Erik and Evan Holt had been running around this part of the world for a few weeks now and remembered I was close by. So we wondered around, ate fish and chips, drank IrnBru, much to both of their disgust (Scotland’s very own soda is a taste that must be acquired drank coffee, and did a lot of chatting. Topped the day off with a trip to the Scottish Whisky Heritage Museum where you ride a whisky barrel through history, watch lots of little movies, meet a ghost and learn how to enjoy all the characteristics of whiskey by having a free sample at the start of the tour! You even get to keep the Glass! What a Deal I then spent the night in Glasgow with a close friend and learned that he and his wife are going to have their first kid! WOOOOOOHOOOOO THEN on Sunday in between church services myself and another friend from church went to check out the Glasgow Tigers. The Tigers are a American Football team that plays in the British American Football League, or BAFL for short. It’s kinda like the NFL over here, there are 3 divisions 2,1 and Premier, the Tigers are a division 2… best thing is the team is walk on, so no try outs and they always need people… especially Americans that actually know how to play! All that to say we then checked out the East Kilbride Pirates, they are a Premier team…which also mean they are about as “Pro” as American football gets over here, of course they don’t get payed, it’s a club and done mostly for fun but they would play in the BritBowl or the UK’s version of the Super Bowl if they made it through the season. Again, they always need people… hehe. I spoke to their head coach today on the phone and he said he would pick me up for practice if I needed a ride! Hahaha I haven’t played real football in ages but they will let me walk onto a Premier league team just because I’m American and I have played before! I think thats great! So, a few of us from church are thinking about joining the team as away to get involved with and become friends with a bunch of these guys. I really believe that to speak into someones life and have it mean anything, in the normal everyday world you have to become real friends first. You have to be invited to speak, other wise your just one more person telling them what to do and how to live, and thats not the point. The point is to see people come to know this God I know, this Jesus who rescued me. And to do that we have to meet people where they are at… so if that means we get to play a little tackle football while we’re at it… well WOOOOOHOOOOOO Haha It’s not a for sure but we are definitely looking seriously at it The other Tim Played in a double header baseball game in the same kind of league but for baseball this week… he also was randomly invited and just participated in his first practice with the team last Thursday. They won They all only practice one evening a week… how great is that. But its not over! I spent Sunday night in Glasgow with another friend (from Northern Ireland) who had 4 other friends over from his high school back in Northern Ireland who all go to Uni somewhere here in Scotland. We played darts on the best magnetic dartboard ever till the wee hours of the morning, It was a grand ol’ time. Then today was back to work, I built the first of our mini green houses and raised beds for all the vegetables we are growing this year. We will have 5, 5×5ft plots this year with more next year. We also had some budget meeting stuff, planned a week of solitude/reflective retreat for when the new folk get here, at a real live monastery, How sweet is that! Oh and I got a “Learn Romanian” language kit to start learning the VERY Basics! Haha but hey, gotta start some where right? Well its time for me to sleep, Goodnight!