The Knowes Hotel Macduff

... Edinburgh soon though..

Anyway, day trip to Ellon, which is just half an hour out of town. Yay! Friend from uni lives here so went round, watched movies etc etc. Nothing too interesting, but it was nice to be away from the dorm for a bit! Leaving for holidays in a few weeks so things will finally get just a little more interesting. Until then, back to the books I go..

Rothes is the little Scottish village where the Glen Grant Whiskey Distillery is located. It is part of the Speyside Whisky Trail, where the largest concentration of Scotch whisky distilleries is located in Scotland. This large valley is popular among distillers because this is where most of the barley is grown for the distillation process.

The distillery has a nice garden and a gift shop.

... was beautiful, we went upto this big hill with an old lighthouse on it & went up to take some photos, after getting the chocolate out of the van, Matt joined Leah with a funny look on his face, he said that we interrupted a big fat man and a lady having sex in the bushes - as soon as we pulled up, they stuck their heads up and ducked down to pull their pants up...whoops ;-).
After illegally driving up the ...

So today is our wedding anniversary, so most of my thoughts were consumed by missing my husband horribly.
Anyway, we had breakfast at Ardno House and hit the road. Our destination was Dufftown in Speyside (whisky capital of Scotland) but we also stopped in Loch Ness. This is not somewhere I planned to go. I typically try to avoid tourist traps, but Jodi was just so excited about it, so off we went. Besides, it wasn't ...

Stopped at the main part of town to get some 'chips' before the work function. I also was a tourist for a few minutes and took some pictures of the market cross and an interesting fountain. Then it was off to the lighthouse museum for the photo recognition.

I got home on Jan 7th. Home is now my parent's house in Cullen, Moray, Scotland Haven spent 2/3rds (ok I'm lying...its more than that but I'm trying to kid myself) of my redundancy I am now in the position of working out what I want to do. First thing to do was to sign on....yes, your author is now a certified government artist (drawing the dole...boom boom!). If by chance my Job-seekers Adviser is reading this I can confirm that I'm working less than 16 hrs ...

I made it to Inverurie, where I'd be staying with my friends' Tanya & Alex for the night. Just in the door and my Dublin flatmate called me - we'd been broken into. Luckily, all they got was her SatNav system, which was broken anyway, so as soon as the filthy thieves switch the thing on, it's going to start smoking! Who believes in karma? Ha ha ha! Don't think they'll be back, and hopefully the word is now on the ...

... the proceeds to charity. Paul headed out to play golf, but was rained out, and the rest of us then headed back to the church for lunch. Tami and Rachel left for vocational afternoons, and I went with John to mail a package home for Paul. Unfortunately that proved to be a bit difficult and the package is still sitting in Fraserboro at the moment. That evening was our ...

... the girls and I went out for dinner and bowling. The President of the Fraserburgh Club was a GSE team leader and decided that the team needed to do something on our own. Thanks Margaret-Jane! Paul went out for dinner with some of the Fraserburgh Rotarians. Needless to say, a good time was had by all, except for the bowling results. Tami apparently minored in bowling in college and dropped the hammer on the rest of her teammates. A rematch will be forthcoming!