Scotland vs. New Zealand

On Saturday, I went with five friends to a rugby match at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh.

We had AMAZING seats! Somehow, we ended up in the fourth row. Marjo bought the tickets really early, so we were lucky that she was so on top of things. This is a photo of the Scotland team warming up right before the match.

We were so close to the action!
Scotland lost pretty badly to New Zealand, but apparently it was kind of expected-- the NZ All Blacks are the best rugby team right now. We were actually sitting with a pretty good mix of Scotland and New Zealand supporters, so we were right in the middle of lots of patriotic chanting and flag-waving from both sides.
People (especially the Scots) really get all decked out for the match. As we were riding the bus to the stadium, throngs of people were wrapped in Scottish flags, sporting kilts, and showing off their blue-and-white colors with face paint.

They really made a show of it when the Scotland team first entered the field-- crazy lighting and exciting music and fire accompanied them.

I think this is such a funny picture.

So many bagpipers!
This was the organized group that played at the beginning of the match, but there were also lots of individual bagpipers who just stood in the stands and played whatever they felt like.

Still happy, even after a 35-6 loss!

I took a few photos of the bread I made yesterday because I think I'm going to include a recipe for organic apple-walnut bread in an article I'm writing and I wanted to have some pictures to accompany it.