USA Scholarship 2022

Monday 7th November was the very last day of my trip - I was taken out for a wee trip before heading to the airport. My sponsor William came by Lucy's house to have a coffee then picked me up and took me out for the morning to Middleburg Virginia. He first took me to another Historic House and garden site, Oatland Plantation to view the house and the slavery cabins - there was not much history in this place and at least we stopped by to look. It's a cute area because they have a barn that has just been renovated and they are not focusing on the house at all! They are on a tight budget at the moment and they are not planning to do any work on the house because they said it's kind of upgraded! Tight Schedule William kindly took me to the check-in at Dulles Airport - to check in my two suitcases and guess what - I managed to weigh them perfectly! They both were at exact numbers - the large one was at 49LB and the small one was at 48LB, I had to reshuffle everything at Lucy...

  On the final day(s) of my trip to America, Lucy and her family took me out to a nice restaurant - Guapo's Bethesda Restaurant downtown near where they live in Washington DC to celebrate our first official open day at Mount Clare, Lucy's husband Alan who came home from Hong Kong and myself on returning back home to Scotland! Myself, Katie and Ali LoRe Family Then we went home afterwards to work on Molly and Percy's wedding invitations to get them ready to be stamped with wax seal stamp! Their wedding invitation designs are absolutely gorgeous!

  On Halloween, Carol took me to the most magical place of my lifetime - FALLINGWATER! It was designed by Frank Llyod Wright in 1935, hidden in the Mountains of Pennsylvania. Our ride to Fallingwater was a bumpy one as we went up and down the hills - our ears were popping every half an hour. Visiting Fallingwater took me back to the memories of when I studied about it in class with Karen Colville! - This was in 2016!! I will never forget that day when I had to learn all about the structure, the reason why and how long it took them to build this. Interior of Fallingwater: We were only allowed to take photos of the ground floor and upstairs were not allowed. The interior of this building was so simple as you can see in the photos - everything was a simple shape and colours, along with some artefacts. I never expected it to be this simple inside - we were only allowed to take photos of the first floor as the rest of the floor is restricted! Including the guest house! I was so interest...

  The last couple of days of October, Halloween, was such an epic weekend - great memories to have when ending my trip to the USA. This will be blog 1 of 2 (so keep an eye out for it). On Sunday, Carol took me to a couple of places place on the way to her home in Gibson Island, we stopped by an Italian place where we met up with her sister as they were nearby. We all had a lovely chat devoured a meatball/sausage sub and went to find cannoli , tiramisu and chocolate mousse. The cannolis were delicious! Then we stopped in Annapolis by the harbour which was the sweetest town in Baltimore! It was like being in a Hallmark movie or Halloweentown! This town had many things going on, Pumpkin carving competition, dress-up competition and so on! Carol and I went into the Museum of Historic Annapolis because we thought it would be connected to Mount Clare and it was! So we took time and went around the museum and then walked through the streets of Annapolis!