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Published: January 5th 2006
Christmas Feast
Look what we created.. Are you proud of us mums?After waving goodbye to Italy we boarded our plane - destination Scotland - home of the knickerless kilt wearers, haggis and Billy Conolly. Also the place where we were to meet up with Paula, Aaron and Bridie to stay in our cottage to celebrate the Christmas week.
After meeting up with the guys our first task was to find the cottage.. With Aaron driving and lauren as our map girl it seemed easy enough as it was only 45 minutes out of Edinburgh. Well supposedly 45 minutes away. In actuality it was more like 2 1/2 hours and with 5 people plus luggage packed, and I mean packed, into our tiny Micra hire car we were happy to see the sign for Kirkmill Cottage - our home for the next week.
Second task was to organise our Christmas dinner and head to Tesco to shop for the week. Relatively painful and mum & dad will be happy to know we bought fruit and vegetables. Was Lauren and I's first taste of home cooking in a month too. Mmmmmm.
Christmas day was good and we cooked up a feast that we were ver proud of. Bridie had organised a
Looking good on Chritmas day
Out the front of Kirkmill Cottage Secret Santa so everyone had something to open on the day. As for the rest of you we will be looking forward to opening all our presents when we get home... There may even be a couple we have bought for people too. Just got to decide whose naughty or nice...
Well as for the rest of our time there all we can say is Scotland is soo beautiful and the photos really tell the story so we won't go into everything too much. We went for a drive to Stirling and saw their castle and visited the William Wallace monument, where we climbed 250 narrow spiral steps to the top. It was freezing!
Anyway since we are behind in our blogs I think I have forgotten some of the things we have done. Memory like a sieve I tell you.. Oh well. Hope everyone had a great Christmas, and until Inverness - unless we get eaten by the Loch Ness monster - This is Lauren and Jacki signing off.
Oh crap my memory is soo bad I almost forgot that little thing we do at the end of every blog.
The Five Things We Have Learnt So Far
- People lie about the time it takes to get to places. Unless they mean 45 minutes in a plane. If so I apologise.
- Fireworks lie. 36 bangs my ass!!
- We can cook. And noone was sick after.
- A micra is a very, and I mean very, small car.
- No matter how real they may appear, a fake fire will always be fake, and hardly constitutes being called a 'working open fireplace'..
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