Arlington, Texas: High Times

Don your kilt and grab your bagpipe for the 18th annual Texas Scottish Festival and Highland Games, June 4-6. There's a competition for everyone at this family event, including bagpiping contests, a kilted golf tournament, a Scotch ale-brewing competition and a shortbread contest. The festival, which takes place at Maverick Stadium, on the University of Texas at Arlington campus, also features traditional Scottish foods and ales, music and dance performances, reenactments, and genealogy and history seminars. You might even find a distant cousin in one of the 65 Scottish clan tents. Admission costs $10 Friday and Sunday and $15 Saturday. Or buy a weekend pass for $25. Children get in for $5 per day. Call (800) 363-7268 or visit <www.texasscottishfestival.com> for more information.