On to Scotland

Inverness is such a gorgeous place and part of me really would love to live there! We stayed here for 2 nights in a bed and breakfast. We had the opportunity to tour 2 hospitals and spend a day with district nurses. A district nurse is someone who makes visits to people in the community. I was with a CPN (community psychiatric nurse). I only went on one visit with her, but it was really interesting and somehting that maybe the U.S. could adopt and could be beneficial. I loved the nurse I was with and it was a very good day. I spent the morning at the office listening to reports on patients, learned about behavioral family therapy, and listened to a drug rep and ate free lunch from him :) Tom and Anne are a couple who have helped us out so much here in Scotland. They are friends of Erin's sister who set up the clinical experiences for us in Inverness and they took us to see Loch Ness and the Urquhart Castle. They have been so nice to us and made this experience such a great one!

Scottish Lingo
Inver = mouth of
Loch = Lake
Ben = Mountain
Glen = Valley

We visited a castle in Inverness, Loch Ness, and Urquart castle.

Inverness

Walkin the streets of Inverness

A wobbly bridge in Inverness

Our bed & breakfast- Pine Guest House


Inverness Castle
Inverness Castle

View from Inverness Castle


Another view of Inverness from the castle (behind me is the white wobbly bridge)

Urquhart Castle and Loch Ness

Urquhart Castle- on the banks of Loch Ness

Michelle and I with Loch Ness and Urquhart Castle behind us

Urquhart Castle again

Loch Ness

Skipping rocks on Loch Ness and trying to rustle Nessie :)

Searching for Nessie (the LOCH NESS MONSTER) I may or may not have seen her...

Uniforms

These are our very flattering uniforms we had to wear to the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary for clinical... I don't think they look as bad as they were. The pants were very "mom jean-ish" and not the most comfortable things to wear, especially compared to scrubs.

Perfect Ending

Our very last day in Huddersfield was such a good day. We had a ward hike/walk. This is an annual ward tradition that they have. We all met at Castle Hill to begin. Carianne and I ran there to get some exercise and to see Huddersfield's beauty one last time while running. The walk was so fun with all of the kids from the ward. They are all so cute! We got to our destination, a park, and we ate lunch, played games, and had so much fun! We had gorgeous weather. The sun was shining, I even got a sunburn. It really was a perfect ending to our time in Huddersfield.

Carianne and I HAD to stop and take pictures in this field :)

I just decided to uproot this tree. No big deal.

This is our ward that I love and miss so much!

Me and Christina on the hike

Me and Bronte- she is the bishops daughter and so dang cute!

Some of the cute kids in the ward

I guess it's tradition that all the boys/men play a rugged game of football (our soccer). It was pretty entertaining to watch, the little ones are quite talented!

We played a game of rounders with the little kids. Its a very simplified baseball when the kids basically hit the ball and just run around

1...2...3... JUMP!

We played a great game of ultimate. I haven't played for a long time and it was so fun, and a good workout!

Oh, just one of the street names

Goodbye Huddersfield!

Yesterday was our last Sunday in this ward! We are so sad to leave them!! Everyone has been so good to us. We love the bishop and his family and everyone in the ward. We sang Lord, I would Follow Thee in sacrament meeting. That is the BYU College of Nursing theme song because of the 3rd verse about the healers art. I'm glad we did it, even though we aren't the best singers :) Here we are outside of the church building.





We were able to go to the Preston temple with the ward this past week. It is about a 45 minute drive from Huddersfield. I am so glad that I was able to do baptisms there. I forgot my temple recommend, but my bishop from Provo called the temple and everything worked out great. It is a very beautiful temple.

Clinical

Our last week of clinical provided us the opportunity to learn a broader view of the health care system here. We listened to a couple of lectures and took a few tours. One day we toured the podiatry clinic at the University and it was pretty awesome. It was a really nice facility. After our tour we played with some of the equipment there. It was a lot of fun and really interesting. Helen Fahey, a very nice lady in our ward took us on a tour of the GP clinic that she works at and taught us about some aspects of the health care system. Even though we didn't get to spend more time in the hospital, it was a good thing so we could learn more.

This is some equipment that we tried out. The bike was really fun! It had a screen in front that shows the course and it would change the rate if you were going up or down hill etc. The one in the middle moves around to check your balance and to align your hips, legs, and feet. The bottom left picture is a HUGE treadmill! It was so huge!

The University people in charge let us go back to the hospital to say goodbye to the wards we were on. Here are some pictures from the hospital.

Here is the lovely hospital we worked at :)

This is in front of the operating theatres (OR).

These are Carianne's and Michelle's nurses. Their uniforms are dresses, I wish you could see them better!

How many INFECTION CONTROL signs can you find???


This is how many I found!

Jane Austen fans, anyone??

We had a wonderful weekend! The weather here has been gorgeous. It has been so nice to see the SUN here, especially for our last weekend in Huddersfield. I can't believe our time here has already come and gone! I still sometimes find it hard to believe that I am actually here. I forget! Anyways, on Saturday we went to Lyme Park and to Chatsworth. These are the places where the old and new Pride and Prejudice homes are located. I have to admit I'm not really the biggest Jane Austen fan, but it was a great place to visit. It kinda makes me want to watch the movies and see where I visited! I know there are going to be so MANY pictures, but it's hard to pick!

Lyme Park
(The house from the old movie)

This is the front of the house

This is a little well inside the house
(The top right picture is actually at Chatsworth)


I guess this is somewhat of a significant part in the movie. If you have seen it you I'm sure you would probably recognize it :)

The back of the house

Chatsworth House
The house from the new movie

Chatsworth House

A few pics inside the house. The lighting was bad so it was hard to get good ones

The water got to 200 FEET high!!

There were costumes in the house. We obviously had to try them on!

~Masquerade~

There was a lot of beautiful scenery surrounding the house

The house from another angle

This is us with Phil, our driver. He also picked us up from the airport when we first arrived here in England. He is also the one who took us to his son's cricket game. We love Phil!! It was sooo nice not to have to deal with public transportation. That is another thing that made our day so great :)