Edinburgh

We took a trip up to Edinburgh while I was there and even though we all had colds and the weather was beyond freezing it was so worth it. I'd love to go back there sometime in the summer and enjoy seeing everything again. The whole city is just full of history and you feel like taking a picture of every single building, street, alley and shop as it's all so full of character. We just had a hard time pulling our hands out of our gloves long enough to snap as many pics as we'd have liked to.
Besides visiting the awesome castle, we took a guided bus tour through the city, the only intelligent way of seeing as much as possible in the bitter cold with two babies. That was great fun! The tour guide entertained us with all sorts of stories and gave us a brief history of as much of the city as he could. I think one could spend weeks wandering the streets of Edinburgh just taking it all in.

Well, I wont bore you by posting all of my pictures, but here's a couple.

The Edinburgh castle. A real deal castle. I just wished I had my boys with me, they would've loved it.
here's a pic from the inside.


This, rather regular building for Edinburgh, happens to be a hotel.

A William Wallace actor on the streets, entertaining the tourists.

Jo and I, with our two munchkins, met up with Natasha in York for a day of sightseeing. It is such an awesome city with so much history. I love old buildings and had such fun walking through the town.

A very old house. Note how everything on it is crooked, even the window frame.

This is a street called "the Shambles" and it was rebuilt in 1400 to look like it does now. It was around at the time of William the Conqueror.


Warming up after our little trek through the town. Here's Nat and Dylan. I really understood why the British love their tea so much and why it's the solution to all of life's problems, when it's so cold, you've just got to have tea.


Jo and Dylan.

England

I thought it about time to put up some pics of my trip to England :D. Well, I had a great time and totally enjoyed myself. It was freeeeeeezing cold, but still beautiful and loads of fun!

Dylan and Jojo, two cute cousins having fun!

This was their typical play time routine, Dylan climbing all over Jojo and her contendedly being squished.

This was Dylan's camera smile. As soon as he'd see the camera he'd put on this hillarious smile. Such a little charmer!

Jojo making friends with her greatgrandma.

There's that camera smile again.

The cutest little rascal ever!

Jojo, having lunch at a nice english pub.

another family adventure

We recently were able to get a sailing boat at a give away price, it needed some repairs and there is still more to do on it. but we decided to take it for a test run this family day. So kenny and myself and Sam and Adrian took it out for a run. Here are some pics to tell the story.

Here we are all hitched up and pulling out.

Here we are at Boerne Lake getting ready to drop it in the water. The boat is 14 ft Hobie cat style. It was a beautiful windy day.


We had it out for the morning and learned how to use the front sail. It went pretty fast and everything seem to work well. There is a small dock there so we moored the boat for lunch. Sorry i don't have more sailing pictures of the boat. The only time i was dry and had my camera was when i was on the shore.

We figured out how to use the Jibe and got it to tack pretty good. We added the main sail and it really got going fast. The lake suddenly got quite small. Sorry I did not get any pictures of both sails up.
Over all we are very happy with the boat and it seems to work well. We will do some more repairs on it and give it a name. Something like the flying Dutchmen or something like that.
I really want to teach the boys to sail with it, But i gotta learn first so i got some books on it and we will see how it goes. Keep you posted.