How a Fire Log Saved Our Vacation…

Snow in Dalwhinnie, Scotland

This post/product review is sponsored by Pine Mountain but as always, all opinions are my own.

I know I’ve been talking a lot about our trip to Scotland with friends over Christmas lately, please forgive me. To be completely honest when we first started talking about a snowy vacation I wasn’t entirely on board. Growing up in South Carolina didn’t exactly endear me to cold weather-snow is beautiful to look at but I don’t have much interest in actually being in the cold weather it requires. But, coming from England you’d have to fly pretty far away to get beach-worthy temperatures so snowy vacation it was!

A close up of Yankee Candle Balsam wood burning log

When we were packing up our truck to make the drive north I threw in a box of Pine Mountain’s new Yankee Candle scented fire logs. One of the reasons we picked the cabin we rented was for the amazing fireplace it had so I knew they’d get great use there-plus, Balsam Fir is one of my very favorite Yankee Candle scents and the logs smell so good even before you burn them!

We arrived at the cabin on a cold, rainy day so the fire was going to get lit right away regardless but when we walked in the house something was a bit off. It turns out that the previous renters had left a boatload of FISH in the freezer and then turned the freezer power off. I’ll just let you take a moment to imagine what that smelled like.

It wasn’t exactly how we imagined the start of our vacation…luckily a quick turn of the lighter had our fireplace glowing in minutes and the delicious scent of Balsam Fir to the rescue-it was fate! (And the log burned the entire three hours it took for the landlord’s cleaners to get rid of the fishy mess!)

Christmas snow in Scotland

The rest of our vacation was a winter wonderland and while the kids played outside and made snowmen the grownups gathered around the fire and enjoyed great conversation and the toasty atmosphere!

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