Visit to Paisley

Smithhills Street - my great grandparents William Perritt and Janet Ritchie Sillars Perritt lived in the first block on the left in 1891 before coming to America

Paisley Abbey - a huge church built approximately 16 million years ago.

Frasier in the 3k.  He finished 6th

I arrived in Paisley Scotland Saturday to visit family through Monday morning.  I'm staying at the home of my cousin Gillian McIlveen (Perrit) and her husband Thomas with children Cameron and Kara.  Also getting to see Gillian's mother Irene, sister Allison Auld (sons Blair and Fraser) aunt Margaret McMillan (Perrit) and family friend Margaret Perri (it seems most women in Scotland are named Margaret).

I've been to Cameron's football match, watched Fraser finish 6th in a 3k race, had some excellent fish and chips, visited a nice seaside park in Greenock, took several long walks with Thomas, and did some supply shopping, including an emergency trip to Argos to buy an adapter for my  computer's power source since my adapters did not include a 3 prong.

Argos is a catalog store.  You go in, look up an item in a catalog, order it and they either run out real fast and buy it, or quickly manufacture it, or maybe have everything in the catalog on shelves somewhere.  Whatever it is, you get your item in 4 minutes.

In Scotland. they put the steering wheel on the right side of the car so they can laugh at you when you always go to the wrong side of the car when someone is giving you a ride.

Paisley is a very nice town. Nice homes, lots of open spaces and lots of people walking everywhere. Everyone is very friendly although they do seem to hate the goalie for St Mirren FC.

Margaret, Irene, Gillian, Thomas, Kara and Daisy the chocolate lab