Checkmate!

Bit of chess with Dad today. He almost didn't win...

Don't Get Blown Away!

The weather wasn't quite so good today but that didn't keep us off the beach all day! We headed out to throw the kite up! I had to give Mummy a hand to keep her from blowing away!

And then we went to Portknockie. Daddy wanted to take a picture of Bow Fiddle Rock and it was also our 100th geocache! Got a few others while we there too, yee-ha! It really is an amazing bit of coast (did I say that in another post already?!).

Moray Coast

Today, it was back to the beach for some more playing in the surf and building sandcastles.

At one point, Mummy had disappeared to the top of the beach, after a wee while, Daddy suggested we go see what she was up to. We ran up to see her and she'd dug this massive hole. When I asked what it was for, Daddy grabbed me and held me down in it while they buried me! Wasn't very good though, I got out without any problems... And ate their brains (a light meal)!

Later, we went out to collect a few geocaches further along the coast. It's a pretty amazing bit of coast and we had to haul Daddy away with his fancy camera - he'd have stayed for ages! We got a bunch of caches though and now we've almost got 100!

Findhorn Beach

We spent this morning on Findhorn beach. It was another beautiful day so it was shorts, t-shirts and sun cream! The waves here were excellent and I spent ages running about in the surf and occasionally trying to get Mummy and Daddy wet (they didn't bring swimming costumes)!

Daddy built his customary sandcastle with a little help from Mummy.

And then I customarily knocked it down!

Eventually the tide begun to consume all the available sand so we had a wander along the coast a bit. There's a massive rock dune all the way along. It's so big it's covered several steps on all the access stairs and I wanted to see if I could dig one out. Mummy stopped me after a wee while - she just doesn't have the staying power any more...

Holiday Garden

We're on holiday near Findhorn. The cottage we're staying in has a fantastic big garden and the weather is amazing. I've been playing in the garden with Daddy, throwing the rocket and ball back and forward. If this weather holds we're going to have a great time!

School Bear

Klaus the bear came home from school to stay with me today. He's here visiting from Germany and a different person takes him home every day. We show him what we do and write in his journal. He was lucky to come to me on a Thursday as there's *loads* I do every Thursday (lucky for him but not for me as it took forever to write it all in his journal!).

First we did my homework.

Then we built my new Lego.

Then we practiced gymnastics before I had to go to my class.

Then we went to gymnastics class (I made sure he had his seatbelt on).

And then it was home for dinner before bed.

In the morning, we had breakfast and I filled in his journal. It was a lot of fun having him stay but I won't miss having to fill out that journal - this blog is hard enough to keep up-to-date!

Lochleven Castle

We headed to Lochleven Castle today. It was great fun. We got to have a sword-fight in the castle; you have to get on a boat to get there; and it's even a geocache!

It was another lovely day although it's a wee bit cold at times on the boat out to the castle. And if you're not careful (like Mummy) you can even get really quite wet from a rogue wave coming into the boat!

The island's not much bigger than the castle but we still managed to lose Daddy. There's also a lot of midgies there! Great fun though.