Where to start?

Well, it seems like everyone else on the planet is blogging their lives for all to share, so it is only natural that we join the ranks to prove that we aren't just bumps on a log working our lives away in SLC (likely story!). The question really is where to pick up since our last serious adventures in New Zealand a year ago (robandrinainnewzealand.blogspot.com).
Since then we had a mediocre ski season with a few great yurt trips where we found some deep snow; a long road trip around the southwest to the Grand Canyon, Havasupai, Bryce Canyon, and the California coast to Oregon; a backpacking adventure to Coyote Gulch in Glen Canyon; Uinta backpacking; summer biking in Salt Lake; disc golf at Solitude; Rina selling her house - for a tidy profit; in addition to working here and there. Let's leave those for now and pick up with our most recent travels to England and Scotland for my dad's wedding (#3).

The Corsons, Feeneys

Hewes, Barnetson, Corson, Feeney

The UK trip was a multi-purpose adventure. It was the first time in nearly 20 years that the bulk of our small extended family were together in one place at the same time. Rellies from Australia, UK, and USA all converged on a small resort village in the Scottish Highlands for a week to share in celebrating my fathers wedding and to catch up. It was a very small civil service and the weather, which was touch and go through the day, even cooperated providing a sunny spell for the ceremony.

The vows

Happily married Dr & Mrs. John Corson

The wedding couple played a lot of golf in Scotland as well as Ireland in the 'honeymoon' week in Ireland. The rest of us enjoyed a lot of R & R walking in the hills, doing a spot of fishing, and eating and drinking our fill.

Gearing up for the big haul.

Not a big fish, but what a pretty fish!

Ancient standing stones

Tom and I were finally able to return our mother's ashes to her homeland during this trip as well. Seven years overdue, it was satisfying to fulfill her last requests and catch up with friends and relatives during the process. he requested her ashes be placed in a friend's beautiful flower garden, in the sea at one of her absolute favorite beaches in East Lothian, and in the sea on the west coast of Scotland, on a wild and remote peninsula.

Craignish Peninsula - a beautiful final resting place