Monthly Archives: October 2012

Tallies 30th in Fort William

Tallie decided she wanted to climb a UK Mountain for her 30th.  Being her, she chose the biggest one!  We all drove over on Friday night to meet them.  Unfortunately Lara was not well and spent the weekend in bed whilst we went out and played and Granny and ‘Pob Pob’ ( Franks new name from Ellis) looked after Ellis.  We were suppose to go up Ben Nevis on Saturday but the weather forecast was better for Sunday so we went to the Ice Factor in Kinlochleven for T&C to try there hand at Ice climbing inside the big fridge they had there.

That done we found a ball pit for Ellis to play in.

Sunday the weather play ball for us and we had a lovely day walking up and down Ben Nevis.

A bit of unexpected snow on top made it that little bit more fun.  Great fun and was great to have views up to around 100m off the top.  The rest of the pictures can be seen by clicking here

Granny SMith Visiting

Granny Smith ( aka the old apple) came up for the weekend to get her fix of Baby E and do some baby sitting for us ( greatly appreciated).  Saturday we went out and joined our friends on a bike up and around Bennachie

Think there was around 17 of us, glorious weather as well.  Below is Lara on the way up.  Martin was showing us around some new trials he has been piecing together.

We all stop for a piece of cake and tea ( extremely civilised behavior if you ask me half way around) and we did our Ninja impressions!

A lovely ride and what made it was that Lara and I managed to go out riding together again, it doesn’t happen that often unless Ellis is with us in the trailer so this was brilliant.

Sunday we thought we better get Mum out the house as Ellis was starting to beat her up!  (joking)  We went for a gentle walk around Loch Muick.

Some thing was going on as it was another glorious day and was lovely to be out with Ellis in the hills, two days sunny in a row is odd up here.

Once at the Loch we taught Ellis how to throw stones and she must have spent 30 or so minutes throwing stones in, loving it, just have to work out how to make her understand where and where not to throw stones!  I think we may regret this…..

A lovely weekend and was great to see mum, but to also get out and play with Lara.  Rest of the pictures can be seen by clicking here