Xmas Day in Scotland

Merry Xmas everyone! It has been a cold and unusual Xmas day for the two of us. We spent the first part of the morning opening up our presents to each other and relaxing watching TV. At about 11am we decided to go for a drive and went to Stirling, which is about 45 minutes drive from here. We went to the Wallace Monument there and had to trek up this really big hill to see it - needless to say we are extremely unfit despite all the extra exercise we have been doing.

We made the family phone calls last night (early,early morning Australian time) and needless to say we woke everyone up - to their chagrin!! For that we do apologise (actually, no we don't! Can't get away from us that easily!)

At around 1pm on the way back we were starving and try as we might we could not find anything open so we thought we were screwed!! We did ask the hotel the previous night what our chances were of finding something open for lunch and they said we would only find Chinese restaurants open - we actually thought they were kidding! But lo and behold they weren't kidding and after walking around town in search of something the only thing we found open was a Chinese Buffet; so that is what we had! We stuffed ourselves silly and are now feeling like stuffed turkeys ready to burst open! Oh and they gave us a free bottle of champagne!

We have only just got back from lunch and wanted to say a quick g'day before we retired for the afternoon and evening with our bottle of champers and choccies!

Hope you all had a great day and got lots of greedy pressies!

We are off to Glossop first thing in the morning (around 6am) so we can get there before lunch!

Take care and we love you all lots.

Luv Karen & Mikey