Day 13 Mom's trip, Saturday 11 April

This'll be shorter! We woke up to a gloriously sunny day -- which was lucky since I'd decided this was the day we were going to do a bit of the coastal path! We hopped the bus down to Crail, Meg joining us, and set off along the path from Crail to Anstruther, another 5 mile day! It was beautiful, the cows weren't out (good? bad? indifferent? just different!), and I was enjoying the experience of wearing a t-shirt with a light jumper instead of 15 layers and heavy coats! On the way we did pass the pig farm where the piglets were out scampering around and being more playful than any I've seen! Otherwise we walked and enjoyed the birds and the landscape.

See? Lovely day! This is looking out at Isle of May and the little point on it is a lighthouse built by Robert Lewis Stevenson's grandfather.

Reaching Cellardyke, which has now merged with Anstruther, where they were drying their laundry out at the harbour.

In Cellardyke, mom very gamely, and kindly, posed for me to finally take a photo of what is probably my favorite road sign in all of Scotland.

We walked through Cellardyke to Anstruther and met up with a couple other friends at the (very busy) Fish and Chips shop there, voted #1 in the UK last year. It was very yummy, although mom did ask - fairly enough - how you judge such things! Kathleen kindly crammed all of us in her car and drove us back to St Andrews where mom rested up a bit before I dragged her over to meet my landlady and then having Paul and Amber over for dinner. Mom was helping teach Amber some of the breathing and relaxation techniques for labour and was also instructing Paul in some ways of being helpful as a spouse. That was fun for me to be able to set up, and I think it was helpful for them too. While they did that, I cooked dinner, and then we ate together in good company! =) A good day of good friends.

We ended the evening rather abruptly by kicking Paul and Amber out so that mom and I could go over to the Easter Eve service, a service of rededication and renewal of baptismal vows, as well as the first Eucharist of Easter. We also then had to begin the process of packing up one last time for the final hurrah of the trip... but more about that later....