Our Day

I decided to post one more blog entry tonight (see below for my contribution to the scrapbooking challeng).
Today was a VERY windy day here, but no rain!!
Some of you may know that today is St. Andrews Day. Actually, I am guessing that none of you know that today is St. Andrews day!
Anyhow, the Edinburgh Castle was offering free admission today and so we decided to go and check it out. We picked up the boys from school and went to Shawn's college to eat the lunch I had packed for us. We were planning on heading up to the castle (which is practically right next door), however, we met another family who had just come from the castle who told us that they had closed the castle due to the wind! Now I had been very optimistic all day, commenting to people who complained about the wind, "It may be windy, but at least it is mild and it isn't raining!".It was about 12 degrees today, very nice compared to my sister who is under a ton of snow (check out Tracy's blog link).
So as the castle was now out of the question, we decided to go check out the Winter wonderland at Princes Street. We walked around the park and watchd the people skating on the outdoor ice skating puddle...I mean ice skating rink. Shawn commented that they don't have to worry about flooding the rink as it is so mild that there is a layer of water on the ice. We had a great day and we have a great city, even if it was windy!

This is just a cute little picture I took this morning of Hannah and Jacob with their hands in their pockets. I am not sure why but they were both walking around like this all morning.

And here are the 4 of them on the big stairs at Shawn's college.
Hope you all have safe, warm shelter over you! We are so thankful for our city and our home today.