Kirkcaldy/St.Andrews(part 1)

I must start out with what happened Thursday night. All evening the wind had been blowing and I hadn't thought much about it until I had gone upstairs to bed. I laid there listening to the breeze that began to sound like waves crashing onto the rocks but yet at the same time it was a gentle breeze. It reminded me of the passage in the Bible that says God was not in the big natural disasters in life but he come in the gentle breeze after all those things have happened. I had opened the window and I felt like God was gently stroking my face as I drifted to sleep dreaming of the things I would see this weekend.

Okay onto Friday. We left early in the morning, well early for a bunch of college kids(9am), and got onto the bus with our favorite bus driver Morris. As we were leaving the Carronvale, Mike said a prayer but before he could get more than "Dear Lord," Morris' cell phone went off and Camille yelled "Morris!" After we all laughed for a few minutes and Mike told a story, he prayed and out wonderful weekend began.

Our first stop was Kirkcaldy Church of Christ. It was a congregation that has existed since 1798 in Scotland. In 1847 Alexander Campbell came to preach there and they kept the same pulpit he preached in. So naturally I had to go exploring and I touched it...more than that I stood by it!

Our next stop was Falkland Palace, which is about 20min from Kirkcaldy. A lot of it was still there but the King's quarters were destroyed. We did go into the chapel and sing. It was so refreshing to hear the voices with 400 year old walls surrounding all of us. I will say it wasn't the coolest castle in the world BUT it had the most impressive and breath-taking gardens I had ever seen. If I could get married anywhere in the whole wide world I would get married in these gardens. The colors of the flowers were so vibrant and they all smelled so sweet and fresh. I played around in there and went exploring and got to see some of the cool things God created all around me. We also saw the oldest tennis court in the world called the Royal tennis court (fancy). For lunch Camille, Kurt and I ate outside the castle at Luiginos and all had pizza. It was some of the best pizza I had ever had. That whole town had buildings that were so castle esq and so much fun to be around. I felt like I was in a movie setting.

Our next stop and last stop for Friday was the one and only St. Andrew's. Our first priority was to check in, and guess where we stayed...at St. Andrew's University! After that we had to walk into town and we had to stop at the golf course..and I touched it. For anyone that doesn't know, St. Andrew's is the home of golf..now you should see how cool that is. After that Camille, Aubrey and I went to the beach by the course. We all played in the sand and I got in the water (which happens to be the North Sea..it was cold). I wrote in the sand, and then we all had sand everywhere so we decided to walk around a little. We then went to meet the rest of the group for dinner at St. Andrew's Cathedral. I only got to look around at the Cathedral ruins for 15 min because they were closing but we did go eat dinner so that was good. After dinner, where I was dared to order an inappropriate drink and refused (not naming names-Kurt) we decided to go back to the hotel and chill. But before we could do that, we were told that we were to get ice cream from a place called Janetta's. Well, there is good reason for why we should get ice cream there, it was really good! So back to us going back to the dorm... I took the lead and well after 25min of semi-wandering we got back to the dorm ( we had to jump off a small cliff and then onto a green box thing then onto the ground, quite fun really). Once we got back, we were all really tired and called it a night shortly there after.