Puffin Rock
We had an adventure today. (well, ..... actually it was Sunday. A whole week ago!) A real adventure - taking our lives into our hands. Our friends, Dave and Leah, invited us to go see Puffin Rock. Apparently, the puffins fly to this rock at this time of year to start families. But to see them, you have to take a trek. We drove outside of town for about 20 minutes, stopping in between the signs that say, "Caithness County" and "Sutherland County." This is where we stopped and got out. In the middle of nothing. And then we walked. We did go prepared with boots, because we were told our feet would get muddy. So, I was wearing a pair of rubber boots borrowed from Leah (about 1 1/2 sizes too big, so my feet moved around inside of them), but they worked really great at keeping my feet dry. The wind was blowing about 35 mph (or more), so it felt pretty wild out there. Especially so because I had not taken anything to hold my hair back and it was flying everywhere. A...