Crathes Castle and Gardens

Cinderella's Birthday

Today is Busy's 4th "Happy Birthday to you".

Perfectly Luffly

In spite of her sniffle

Isabel's chiffle.

Some girls with a sniffle

Would be weepy and tiffle;

They would look awful,

Like a rained-on waffle,

But Isabel's chiffle

In spite of her sniffle.

Her nose is more red

With a cold in her head,

But then, to be sure,

Her eyes are bluer.

Some girls with a snuffle,

Their tempers are uffle.

But when Isabel's snivelly

She's snivelly civilly,

And when she's snuffly

She's perfectly luffly.

- Ogden Nash

Crathes Woods

I hate to state the obvious, but this is my Dad smelling a tree.

I felt guilty for climbing this ancient tree, like maybe the Tree Police were going to come get me!

My parents standing on "The stumps of Destiny"

Grandma's Garage Sale

We had fun taking pictures with all of Grandma's junk. My dad reading Ogden Nash by the light of a lamp, my cousin Luke and I, Aunt Kathy really was getting her hair done one last time while Grandma still had her beauty shop, Grandma and Ranger, and me mum.

Beach at Aberdeen

While I was at the beach by myself one evening, I asked a girl walking by if she would take my picture. We talked for a while. She said her name was Sayda. "Sayda!?" I said like it was some kind of crazy ethnic name. "Yeah, Sayda." Haha, it wasn't tell after she left I realized she was saying Sarah.

My footprints in Scottish sand!

Grandma resting her bones

(and this lonliness won't leave her alone

two thousand miles she's roamed

just to make this dock her home...)

Edinburgh City Centre

Here is a map showing the train station, the castle and the palace. Although, we never made it to the palace we had good intentions of going there!

View from the castle looking down the Royal Mile.

We had to walk up the hill from the train station to get to the castle.

The next couple of pics are our views along the way.

A picture of Mom taking a picture.
Here I am on High Street.

We stopped in this cafe for some coffee and desert.

High Street, again - well, all the street pictures are High Street.

This was taken from the castle walls.

I gave this piper a few coins after I took his picture. He gave me

a wink for it. Too bad he didn't give me a wink in the picture!

Here's Grandma waiting for me at a pub.

Train Station