Had a quiet day in the castle (just love writing that!) yesterday. Actually did some more orthodox education stuff. I made up some dot to dots for Charlotte counting up in 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7s, went and did some shopping. Daniel bought ‘New Scientist’ Magazine and factoided us for the rest of the day. Davie and Toby arrived in the evening to join us for the weekend. Candy established her dominance over Tobes very quickly by stealing all his food and his bed!
Today we planned a trip to Landmark as Michaela loves the Bungee jump thing and Daniel the MicroWorld science bit. However all the outside parts were closed for building work so we had lunch and then did MicroWorld for free. Decided to set off for Aviemore and the Cairngorms. Saw some reindeer on the slopes of the mountain – they were reintroduced in recent years, obviously very used to humans as we walked right up to them. Kids were thrilled. I really love the Highlands, quite fancy living there. However there’s not much work for Davie there so…hmm… Travelled up to the top of the Cairngorm Mountain on the funicular railway – shopped in the highest shop in UK (think it still is anyway) and had tea in Scotland’s highest restaurant. Good little exhibition about the mountain range up there too. I love the atmosphere up there on the mountain – somehow calm but upbeat at once, also very cold! It always seems to be snowing up there. Came home (to castle and had a Thai takeaway for dinner… yum… thighs not getting any smaller this weekend! The girls came with me and both got most favorable predictions in their fortune cookies
Below: a ticks head in MicroWorld; reindeer; mountains from car park; a WW2 German plane (don’t know why it was hanging in the funicular station but will maybe find out on interent later); Charlotte on the train listening to the audio on the Cairngorm environment; more mountains and then a time guide to how Cairngorm has developed – amazing to think that it was once desert and also tropical forest; Daniel, Davie and Michaela on the viewing terrace.
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