The Payson Scottish Festival was held on July 13th.  Matt was soloing in the morning at 10:15 and 10:30-ish.  Henlie and I weren't having a good morning, so we didn't get there as early as I was hoping.  Then, parking was awful.  It always is, but we drove around for ages.  I was just about ready to head home and say screw it, when a spot I've used in the past was open on my way out.  It's about as far away as I was willing to park, so I flipped around and parked.  We got to the park just after Matt's second solo.

The fun part of the Payson games is seeing lots of people I know.  White Peaks wasn't playing since a lot of the band is in Nauvoo, but I visited with Natalie and Tashina.  Next, I headed across the park to see Matt at the band tent, but he was rehearsing.  I chatted with Janna for a bit before heading back to the competition field.  

My family eventually made it over, so we set up shop next to them so I could feed Henlie. For the rest of the day, I hung out around the competition field, leaving our stuff for Steven to watch while I played social butterfly catching up with people. :)  It was fun to see people (because I never see people anymore - not in real life.  Yes, I'm partly to blame for that :))  We watched the grade 5 competiton and round 1 of the grades 4 and 3 competitions.  After that, Henlie and I packed up (my family was all leaving anyway) and headed home.  Matt made it home later and informed me the grade 4 had won both competitions. (I don't remember the other grades' standings.)

Truth be told, I'm kind of over Scottish festivals.  They pretty much are all the same.  They definitely are the same when you go to the same ones every year.  Next year? I think Henlie and I will skip Thanksgiving Point for Art City Days. (I haven't been to Art City Days in years....like, since I started piping lol).  We'll still go to Payson as that was always a tradition for me, and it's free ;)  Regardless, once we finally made it to the park, we had an enjoyable time at the Payson festival this year.