July 3- Hiking with "the Brits"

The sun rises really early in the UK, so we were awake around 5.  But, we officially woke up at 7:00, packed up our tent, and drove to the Langstrath Inn near Stonewaith.   On the way, we stopped in the town of Kessick to check out local hiking trail guides.  The outdoor store we went to offered rentable boots, so we got those for Alysse.  A 3 day rental cost 5 pounds.  When we arrived at the Langstrath Inn, the doors were locked, so we parked our car about a quarter mile down the road at a pull off for hikers.  
We saw the Brits and gave a quick “hello” but didn’t say much  else.  We were planning to follow one of local trail heads from the hotel.  After a short distance, we realized we didn’t really know where we were going and Alysse was slightly freaking out because trails were poorly marked/nonexistent.  Our trail and the trail the Brits were taking met and that’s when we officially met “the Brits.” Peter (friend), Allan (father), Adrian (son), and Alice (11 year old daughter) invited us to accompany them on their walk.  We hiked up to Sergeant’s Crag and Eagle’s Crag.  We returned to the hotel around 4:30 and checked in.  We enjoyed a round of drinks on the Brits.  Alysse had bad blisters and we drove back to Kessick to see if we could exchange the boots.  The outdoor store was closed.  We had dinner at a local restaurant in Kessick.