Some August Pictures

We arrived back in Scotland on July 31 and on Aug 1 Shawn's mom and sister arrived for a visit. It was so good to get back home (Edinburgh) and then to have family arrive from back home (Canada). We have been mourning the loss of the lovely weather we experienced in Germany but we are getting used to being back in the rain :)
So without further ado here are some pictures from this past month in Scotland:

We took Aunt Deborah on a hike up Arthur's Seat and here is a picture of Hannah and Deborah on the way down the mountain...we climb up a load of stairs and take the road back down.

Here is the crew at the bottom after we came back down. Arthurs Seat is the top peak which is right above Shawn's head in the photo. The children all wanted to do a funny pose for this picture.

Grammy reading the children a story. Alexander and Benjamin got little hand held yahtzee games for their birthday and so they are playing the game rather than listening to the story...Deborah is pretending to listen....yes, this is a posed photo!

Our pastor had extra tickets to the Tattoo this year and he passed them along to us so Deborah and I got to go to this amazing show! Here we are in the castle esplanade awaiting the show. Once it started you weren't supposed to take photos so I grabbed one before it started. It was an amazing show with acts from all over the world, including some dancers from Canada.

We went to the Edinburgh Zoo to see the new Budongo chimpanzee exhibit. This was after Jacob had hurt his foot so he is in the stroller with a nice green cast on his leg (he got to pick the color of the cast!).We thought it appropriate to pose with the chimpanzees. Look at all those monkeys and chimpanzees! :)

On Alexander and Benjamin's birthday we went out to eat supper. Here is Jacob eating his pizza...and yes, that is only half of it!

This is a pose at the very top of Arthur's Seat

This is a posed shot on the back side of Arthur's Seat after rolling down the grassy hill

That is all the photos for now but I will try to continue to post some every now and then. We are saddened to hear of the demise of Zoom Airlines as that means we may have fewer visitors....there was a direct flight from Halifax to Glasgow which was very convenient for visitors coming to see us. However, we are hoping for a new airline to get up and running and/or existing airlines to offer some deals. As always, we would love to have visitors so if you fancy a tour of the UK, drop us a line!