User blog:Birchy/Scotland!

Hello everyone! I'm back from Scotland! I LOVED it! The place I stayed at was called Arbroath and it's where my Nana and her siblings were born!

Sunday
The drive up took 5 hours! I was so tired but when I got there I was jumping about, eager to go down to the beach. It was just over the road and under the train tracks, and so cool!

The caravan was so awesome! It wasn't one of those tiny ones that cars tug along, but a huge one. The bedrooms were tiny but I was fine, because I can sleep in cramped spaces ^^

We went to the Leisure Centre in the park and I played some 'American Pool' with my Dad and brother. Sadly, I lost. FOUR TIMES! Then I had a cool time beating my brother in Air Hockey.

I fell asleep after reading about... two sentences of my book. :P

Monday
We went into the town centre and got our bearings- in other words, we argued about which way we could go and which we couldn't, and nobody listened to me. x.x

Then we went into Dundee, a HUGE city with zillions of shops. We walked about for a few hours and then went back over a bridge, when I had a race with my brother down to the car. He went down the ramp and I went down the stairs, and I won! :D

When we got back I went down to the beach and walked through the water and saw a jellyfish, which was cool. Then I had to go back, eat and went back down!

Beforwe going to sleep, we watched a movie and went to bed.

Tuesday
I think this was the wettest day D: We went up to Glamis Castle after an argument about what we'd do. I lost. So on the way up, I teased my Mum by saying Glamis the way it's spelt, while she said it correctly (it's pronounced 'Glahms'). It was pretty and over 600 years old (almost typed days then xD). We asked a woman that worked there when the next tour was, and she said there was a German Tour about to start, so my brother pulled my Dad up a few steps and said, "Come on, you gotta love some Germans"

When the English Tour started, I was interested. The tour guide said we should look for a room without any Lions in and why. There was ghost stories in three of the rooms:

One: Two men were gambling late on a Saturday night and someone came in and said to remember not to play beyond Midnight and they said they wouldn't, but they were drunk and kept playing. A man joined them after Midnight and they fell asleep they died and were locked in the room, because the third man was the Devil. The tour guide said you could hear them placing bets on a Saturday night.

Two: A woman was burned as a Witch and her ghost comes in from the back corner and sits there praying.

Three: A little Pageboy was sat on a seat and all the Royals and such went to bed and no one dismissed him, and he died of Hypothermia :( It's said he trips people up when they walk by, which is cool.

My brother said he wanted to take down a Highland Cow, and it kept staring at him as he walked by! xP

We went for a meal with my Nana, Great Aunt and Great Uncle. Pretty cool 8)

Wednesday
We went to Camperdown Wildlife Park! It was really pretty, and we saw...


 * Ring-Tailed Lemurs


 * Goats


 * A Donkey


 * Shetland Pony


 * Scottish Wildcat


 * Tortoise


 * Chickens


 * Peacocks


 * Lynx


 * Grey Wolves (Which my brother wanted to take down)


 * Wallaby


 * Birds


 * Skunk


 * Snowy Owl


 * Frog


 * Hawk (He wanted to take him home)


 * Great Grey Owl


 * Brown Bears (Also a creature my brother wanted to take down)


 * Otters


 * Rabbits


 * Stork


 * Marmosets


 * Bats


 * Rhea


 * Polecat


 * Ferrets

And that's it xD

I went to my Nana's Cottage and built stuff with lego while watching C.S.I. while the rest of them went out drinking ¬.¬

Thursday
Sigh... I didn't like this day... We had something to eat then had to go to the cottage my Nana and co. were staying in. My cousins and Aunt had come up the day before, and we acted like we hadn't seen each other in years xD

We all went out to the Cemetry to bury my Grandma's ashes, which was quite sad :'(

So the lot of us- 19 in total- went to Wetherspoons and had food! Then the boys went off to drink while the girls went back to the Cottage. The adults (which were all of them apart from three, me and my cousins) had a good look at the houses for sale in an Estate Agent window for about 10 minutes!

My cousins and I made an epic house with a garden from Lego and rocked in the rocking chairs before we went to the beach- us three. We collected shells and walked out onto the rocks before coming back, and my younger cousin picked up a crab claw, which she could move, and took it back!

I watched a movie and my Dad and brother came in after Midnight and I slept on the sofa.

Friday
We packed up and I went looking for rabbits. I was less than a metre away from a baby one when a car beeped and it got startled D: We went home and spent five hours in the car. When I got in, which was less than an hour ago, I hugged the computer for five minutes straight.

And that was my time in Scotland! :D