Diving!

You see that lad on the 3 metre springboard? That's me! There is a picture of me after jumping off but I'm kind of just a blurry, transparent streak so there's no point showing it here.

Dirleton Castle

After diving today we went to Dirleton Castle. Diving was great, only our second lesson and we were up on the three metre board already! We started with a couple of jumps off the one metre springboard then a bunch of jumping and diving in off the side of the pool to practice our technique then it was up to the 3 metre platform for the first time! We were all excited and a bit scared. Apart from one wee girl who couldn't contain her excitement at all! She was straight up to the board first and had the biggest smile ever! I played it very cool, like I do this every day, until I completed the first jump - it was amazing! I was so pleased I had a wee dance when I got back up the platform. The second time I didn't maintain my pencil shape all the way into the water and everyone got to know that I'd hurt my arm when I surfaced and roared 'Oooowwww'! It was fab, can't wait until next week.

So, Dirleton. It's a while since we've been here but it's very good. We had a wee walk around the lovely garden first, I had a sword fight with Dad, and we saw this amazing tree. Its bark was like fur so I named it a chimpantree!

And then it was into the castle. It's a nice castle and has one of the best preserved doocot's we've seen. It's also got a great walkway over a fab (but dry) moat. Dad and I had a great battle on the walkway and and an even more fab one underneath!

Moving around, we found a very cool tree that was growing at an angle - perfect for climbing!

Salisbury Crags

I had my first diving class at the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh today. 08:30 on a Saturday morning. So obviously I was up at six am and raring to go!

Diving was great fun. We spent a while jumping in off the side and then got to jump in off the 1 metre springboard at the end. I can't wait until next week!

It was a lovely day so we needed something to do when we came out of the pool. We hadn't made any plans but Salisbury Crags were just too inviting when we headed back to the car.

So we headed around to Holyrood Park car park and went for a walk up the Crags. We didn't plan to walk far but it went well so we actually did the whole Crags, stopping along the way to take some interesting photos!

Mum and me half way up that ridge (we don't know who the guy at the top is!)

Dad and me on this ridge - great photo, Mum!

When we got off the Crags, after complaining about being tired a lot of the way, I insisted on playing with the frisbee and tig with Dad. He was thrilled! But at least we earned ourselves an ice cream back at the car!