Saturday afternoon was spent holding onto sharp objects and trying to move in an upward motion.  We had entered a round of the Scottish dry tooling competition being held at our local climbing wall.  This basically involves using ice axes and climbing with them rather than hands.

It was a bit alien to us, but great fun and a rather good work out. both of us felt like some one had kicked us hard all over afterwards. 

The organisers had done a great job of route setting with a massive variety of moves and techniques required, from torquing,  to wood and bike frames being used as obstacles to get up and over. Ellis was cheering us on as we took it in turn to climb from the viewing balcony and even took some interest in climbing gear.  I reckon she will like climbing

A great event and something we hope to do again, good training for the fast approaching winter coming

In the evening we went to Gus and Lorraine’s fancy dress halloween party.  Here they are in their amazing home made costumes

We decided that as it was halloween we would go with the ghost theme and go as something to do with the legendary ghost busters movie

Yes that is me hiding inside there.  I some came to realise this was a better costume for deepest darkest winter months as I was roasting in there and it was like wearing a duvet all night!  We had a brilliant time, dancing, playing games and having one to many drinks.  Our old neighbours had generously offered to baby sit Ellis for the night and for her to stay at theirs, so we were free to go out all night with out having to think about her.  thank you very much N&R – you are brilliant!

(yes , funnily enough I did chose Lara’s costume………)