Miles and old friend from our Chamonix days was passing through Aberdeen on his way offshore and stopped in for a few days as he had a weekend to kill.  We all went down the climbing wall as it was hoofing it down outside.  Lara managed to climb which she really enjoyed.  She still is constantly tired from the pregnancy and is a little fed up with not being able to do anything,  so for her to get out and do a little was great.  However, it did mean she was straight on the sofa leaving the boys to cook….

I think I excelled myself and looked further than the can of baked beans and the tin opener – and even went to tescos for the ingredients to make Fajitas!!!!  I thought if I was going to cook then I might at least go all out and invite more around to witness this rare phenomenon.  Knowing that both Euan and Andy where home alone with respective partners away, I would save them from their tin openers and beans.

Dinner was a success which led to a few beers which some how led to Poker.  I showed an early promise and soon collected the majority of the chips only to redistribute them to everyone else.  Miles came out the winner and with his winnings we marched him down the pub and made him buy us beer.

In the pub with many hero beers down us we decided that we would go climbing the next day.  At the painful and fuzzy time of 7:30 we went around to pick Andy up and off we went to Lochnagar to climb Eagle ridge, it is a 250m 3 Star Severe and rated as one of the best in the country at that grade. 

It can be seen above – what also can be seen above is the small queue that was forming at the bottom of the route.   We were behind 2 other couples.  Even though we were climbing as a three were way faster than the other two groups.  We sat around at the bottom waiting our turn.  I amused people with having to run off and hide behind rocks – blamed the beer and not my cooking!

Miles and me half way up.  We spent a lot of time sitting on belay ledges waiting for the other climbers, but it was a lovely day and we were in no rush.  We spent a lot of time playing eye spy and debating each others sexuality.  Word of warning, Miles is a whizz at eye spy, don’t play him at it.

The climbing itself was brilliant, easy enough that I could do it, but hard enough to keep me concentrated.  The exposure was huge in places

It then became a gun show showing all and sundry what real mighty men we are!

We got to the top and the sun was shining still.  we walked back down to collect our bikes form the heather and had great fun hurtling past all the other climbers and walkers on the downhill back to the van.  A great day out

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