no ice, please

Our friends, Katie and Robby, came over this past week. We went to Pitlochry and toured some distilleries. Our favorite was Blair Athol Distillery. We had a great tour guide from Glasgow named John. He taught us everything we ever wanted to know about whisky. He also told us that they usually shoot Americans at his distillery because they put ice in their whisky. Apparently, ice cools the whisky when your hand should be warming it up and the melting ice will continually chance the ratio of water to whisky rather than maintaining a constant ratio. As such, I never put ice in my whisky (since last Friday). On the way out, he showed us the graveyard where they bury ice-loving Americans.

We also went to Edradour Distillery--the smallest distillery in all of Scotland. It was quant, but the tour wasn't nearly as good as Blair Athol; however, it was free (including a whisky tasting).

And we also went to the Dewars Whisky Experience, but the last tour had already passed (even though it was only 3:30). So we had a gander around the gift shop and Stacey convinced someone to give us a free tasting (glad to have her around).

Here's a pic of our new house in Athens. 

What the Hail?

I played golf on Saturday with some friends. As always, the weather vacillated between sunny and rainy with sustained winds; however, we had some hail this time. I had never played golf in hail before and I hope to never do so again. It didn't last long, but it was pretty heavy.

Anyway, we were on the Strathtyrum and we played "scramble." After being down 9 holes to 1, Michael and I had the best comeback of all time. We won the last 8 holes to tie David and Steve 9-9. If you don't understand anything I just wrote don't worry about it. Just know that it was a lot of fun and we had a great comeback.

Also, I played the Eden a couple of weeks ago. It was a lot of fun and very challenging. It's a good course to play if you need to lose some golf balls. Fortunately, I lost most of my golf balls on #3--so I didn't have to carry them for the next 15 holes. Unfortunately, I lost too many and had to go to the store to buy some more.