Highland Games Part 1

A few weeks ago, we went to the BC Highland Games in Coquitlam. We got to see all the Heavy Games, which includes the caber toss, sheaf toss, hammer toss and the weight-over-hand. We listened to bagpipe music and watched the dancing competitions. We also looked through the various vendors and saw lots of kilts. Perhaps the highlight of the day was feeling the baby go crazy and kick the living daylight out of me every time the bagpipes went by. Dan says the baby loves bagpipe music and was dancing. Amanda says the baby was punching and screaming in protest, "Make it stop! Make it stop!"

Dan participated in the haggis hunting that we got in our brochure. You collected 6 stamps from various vendors before taking it to the information center to collect your official seal as a haggis hunter. Really it was nothing more than a cheap gold sticker, but it was worth the laugh. Along the way, Amanda fell in love with the little haggis impersonations that informed you that a stamp was available. She tried many times unsuccessfully to make off with the little haggis animal. She ended up getting caught every time, once by the haggis wrangler who was in charge of the haggis hunt that day.

This is the caber toss. Better known as throwing the telephone pole! And throw he does! The goal is to get the pole to flip end over end in the straightest line possible. Not so easy, when many men could barely get the pole off the ground.

A picture is worth a thousand words. This one may get a few more than that.