weddings, engagements, snow and quadbiking.

well, och aye, here i am in scotland with the family (or some of us anyways), there's mum, dad, bro, cuz liz, cuz anf, unkie malc, his new wife carol (welcome to the fam), new step cuzs alex and pat. and then their fam too. it is beautiful, today we have seen cloud, rain, sun, snow and everything else inbetween (is there anything else inbetween??). the pics are malc and carol at the loch, ahhh, isn't it beautiful, postcard material, wish you were here! Groom and children, cutting the cake, my side of the rodgers clan, happy husband and wife.

so, friday was my last day at mt school, good and bad. jumped in the car with mum and dad to drive up to scotland. Got to Boat of Garten by Sunday, fab place. Spent sunday night and monday catching up with the fam, which has been fantastic. and sunday was the most beautiful day(who picked on me for saying lovely in my last posting??? everything was lovely, and my vocab has become very limited since working with my kids... sitting, good boy, eating. Good sitting, stop, listening. are you doing good listening?? good boy, you get the gist). anyways...

monday became overcast and windy as, and so we had Malcolm and Carols wedding inside. We would have been blown into the loch otherwise. and celebrated into the night at a beautiful scottish countryside home that had been turned into a function centre. The quartet added a great atmosphere to an already welcoming place and as for the food.... it was delicious.

so, today, no rest for the wicked, the kids (being me, jordie, liz and ant) went up to ummm, some ski slope in Scotland near inverness, sorry, can't remember the name. We caught the funicular up to the top which is apparently the talles peak in the UK with the tallest treeline and fastest land speeds in the UK. it was snowing, windy and cold, but also lovely! Afterwards we had a pasty for lunch and went quad biking. I am really bad at quad biking, but it was fun all the same. the stream crossings were very fun too.

and now relaxing in a lovely hotel called the Boat (at Boat of Garten). Oh and on Sunday, we caught the steamtrain from the station from something to do with Harry Potter, so that was cool. Unfortunately, i didn't get to Loch Ness, hopefully next time. I think mum and dad went there today. Wonder if they saw the monster. he's not under my bed.

well, that's about it for me. some more photos to come shortly, many things to show you all, and might write about my other adventures with my parents in Paris and Wales and other fun places.

love you all,
deev

and by the way, NO i am not engaged, but CONGRATS to Ty who has just told me she is getting married, yay. so am in scotland just after a wedding finding out about friends getting married, romance must be in the air!