St. Andrews

After our time in Northern Ireland, we drove to Scotland (including my first ever massive ferry ride- it was crazy, all the cars just drive right on to the ferry!) and spent a week in St. Andrews getting Mark settled. He has a nice apartment that he is sharing with his friend Tom and we had a great time going around town and getting him all set up for the year. Apparently I am a force to be reckoned with against small appliances. I kicked Mark's five dollar speakers accidently and broke them, and then I plugged in a hairdryer and blew half of the sockets in the house... luckily both issues were easily fixed after getting a hard time about my destructive tendencies from Mark. Along the way I was introduced to a British store known as Argos. As a comedian over here put it: Argos is the store that said "let's reinvent how stores work and all other stores will follow" and every other store responded "haha,  no." Look it up. It's like Ikea but all out of the catalogue. While in town, we met up with many of Mark's friends and threw a Welcome Back dinner for Mark. Mark was a little concerned about how we would feed everyone for the party, but luckily that is one thing us Cubans know how to do: feed crowds. So, I summoned all of the years of watching mother Teresa cook and we were able to pull off just the right amount of fajitas and rice and apple crisp for dessert! After enjoying our time in Scotland and celebrating our 2 yr anniversary, Mark and I were off for our long train ride with beautiful scenery of the British coast on our way to London.

(these pictures are actually from my last trip to St. Andrews, but I just wanted to show how beautiful it is there)