Sunday evening we attended a formal 5-course dinner in the Lindsay Room at the resort. This was called "The Taste of Scotland", and consisted of traditional Scottish food and entertainment. It was so interesting! The first course consisted of salmon- it was called Salad of Scottish Salmon. I was determined to be a trooper, so I sampled it and concurred with my lifelong feeling that I am NOT a seafood eater (sorry Dad!). Carol was glad that Mom and I aren't seafood eaters so that she could graciously eat ours .

Second course was delicious- Cock-a-leekie Soup. This was alot like chicken broth cooked with bits of onion and chicken breast. I had no trouble draining my bowl dry. At this point in the meal, Adam, our host who was dressed in full Scottish garb, announced that Haggis would be served next. Now I had been hearing about haggis since I stepped off the plane. Haggis, simply put, is sheep's guts. OK, so technically it's sheep's entrails and lungs (yeah, big difference). To prepare us for this "feast", an actor came out dressed in a Highlander outfit and quoted an ancient Scottish poem while viciously cutting open the stomach lining of the sheep the haggis had been cooked in. Yummy! Let's eat! Oh, but it gets better- we were then told not to worry, the haggis was mixed with oatmeal to complete the taste. Now when you say "oatmeal" to me, I'm thinking Cream of Wheat. Um, we did NOT eat Cream of Wheat! When the haggis finally arrived I was in a cold sweat. There on my plate was a 3-tiered pudding- the top dark layer was the haggis , the second layer was neeps (turnips) and the bottom layer was tatties (potatoes). It took everything in me to try it, but I did! It wasn't terrible. I ate two bites and decided I'd exceeded my courage level for the day. The rest of the meal was more to my liking- steak and then dessert. Needless to say, I ate all of it! The actors ended our evening with a soliloquy of William Wallace and another of Mary Queen of Scots. It was an interesting and entertaining evening!