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Day 1 – Thursday – First Day of Castles

Today was really the first day of vacation. Previously Karl was attending the EAGE.

We made it to three different castles today – Inveraray Castle, Dunstaffnage Castle, and the Stirling Castle. And we covered about 220 miles to get it done.

We started out at about 7:30 am walking [...]

Wednesday

Today Karl went the the EAGE again. Lael and the boys headed for breakfast in the lobby.  They had a great meal of various rolls, tea, coffee and juice.  It filled them all up!  Then they headed for the hugh pool in the hotel.  It had a hot tub, a suana and steam room.  Mom [...]

Tuesday

This morning Karl went to the EAGE to see what was going on. Got some more detailed competitive information.

Here are some pictures from the convention..

Then, Lael, Scott and Troy arrived at about 2pm today.

We went to Bella Pasta for lunch and then went to the Glasgow Cathedral.

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Monday

Lael and the boys left Houston this morning to head this way and should be here tomorrow afternoon.

The EAGE opened today with among other addresses, a talk by Nigel Trevin on the topic “The Stratigraphy of Whiskey”. While this “tongue in cheek” talk analyzed the location of distilleries in Scotland compared with the geology it [...]

Sunday

Well, straight to work… I’m glad I got a good night’s rest.

Today I attended a workshop, “Exploration Risk Analysis: A Pragmatic Overview” given by Peter Rose and Jeff Brown (of Rose & Associates, LLP.) that started a 9am and ran until about 5:30pm.

This was a good overview. The instructors were frustrated because they were trying [...]

Saturday- 27 May 2000

I landed in Manchester only to discover that their baggage system was not working. I managed to finally get my bags and catch the train from Manchester to Glasgow. That left at 9:32 and got me into Glasgow about 2pm.

I managed to stay up all of Saturday and go to bed about [...]