Ahh..Bonney Scotland..

After invading the relatives ..(and attempting to understand this strange and foreign dialect) we head off to visit a couple of local castles (the ones that hadn't fallen down) and take a closer look at the fantastic surrounds













..Some where a little spooky...but Lindsey encouraged me all the way.






Next we where off to Stirling..down in the middle bit of Scotland...the home of William Wallace and the massive Stirling castle and Tollbooth (Jail for those of you who don't speak the Scot')....This of course was the castle of Robert the Bruce... To the sound of bagpipes we gazed across the valley to the Wallace monument. After a visit to the goodie shop, we had a moment to reflect on history............Clutching Lindsey's hand we passed through the store in record time! "...off to the Falkirk Wheel!....Hooray!". Now just what is the Falkirk Wheel, I'm glad you asked..you see it's this massive wheel thingy that turns to deliver the boats and barges from the lower Lock to the upper Lock...the girls were amazed..(well I think that was the look on there faces), it was the highlight of everyone's day, as we waited for the wheel to slowly, slowly, slowly rotate "WOW!." Mmmmm....Apparently we were supposed to be dropping into some Fine glass making place or something on the way home but we ran out of time.. "Oh well I said..:-/" ....now..... I want you to imagine the less than pleased look on Lindsey's face right about now...so, I thought I'd brighten the drive time by explaining just what an engineering marvel the Falkirk Wheel was.. "...And did you know the whole thing runs on the same power as a light Bulb!..", about then Lindsey turned the volume up on BBC Radio 1.....Perhaps we'll drop back to Creith Glass later in the week. ;-/