Holiday Inn Express Livingston
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Back to Bonnie Scotland!
... br> aquainted with our Vauxhall Mervira. First up...needed help on how to start it, and how to
release the brake(it's electric) and then we were on our way to Kirkintilloch.
Round to Ellen and Matt's and talk, talk talk! Absolutely wonderful seeing them again...
Ellen had us in fits of laughter..love her to bits.
Later in the afternoon went down to The Fort - a shopping centre nearby as I was wanting to get a ...
Scotland the Brave
... base of one of the huggest mountains I have ever climbed. We really should have twigged that there was no chair lift anywhere, but we kept thinking if we just went a little further we would find it. Half way up the hill and a couple of falls later (Tegan's being the funniest as she fell UP the stairs) and we could hear music. It was only after a little while we realised it was Kings of Leon! That was enough to spur us on for the final ...
Bagpipes and Kilts
... just as nice.
After getting situated we decided to go to the grocery store and grab some dinner and then set out to see the city. It was around 6 in the evening before we made it to the Royal mile and everything was virtually closed so we decided to get a feel for Edinburgh to know what to do the next morning.
We walked to the castle, saw a few cathedrals and headed south to Holyrood Palace. It was a nice city, ...
Cabin crew, prepare for take-off..
... but i just don't want that to be lingering in the back of my mind.. To be honest i know in my heart the trip will be what i make of it, so if i keep that thought in my head then it'll turn me negative, and to be honest - i couldn't be more excited about going! I've already spoken to all of the team (i'm a keen stalker of facebook..) and i can say from the bottom of my heart they are all LOVELY. Some of them i have spoken to more than others, bbm is how TPers ...
A somewhat less quick update...
Now, when did I last update this?
Ah, that's right, last Wednesday. We'd done very little, but were really, really enjoying the peace as a result.
Since then, we've mostly continued to do very little *g* with the addition of Edinburgh Fringe Festival shows *g*
The Festival officially started August 6th, but the preview shows started a few days before that, and preview shows are cheap, so of course we had to go to some *G*
We were ...
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