Stirling

On the weekend we went to Uncle Shaun and Aunty Linda's place from round lunch to Sunday night. They have four children, Joel who is 14, Luke who is 10, Zoe who is 8 and Joshua who is 6. Joel was out.

In the afternoon we went for a walk, then we watched a movie, then we had a bible reading, then we had the fireworks, then we finished off the movie, then we had dinner then we played on the computer, then we all had showers, then we cleaned our teeth, then we jumped into bed then our mum's and dad's said goodnight to us. It was 9:00 when we went to bed. In the picture next to me is Leah and next to Leah is Holly and next to Holly is Zoe and next to Zoe is Eve and next to Eve is Jared.

In the morning we had breakfast and got ready for the meeting. At the meeting Zoe showed me around the hall. The meeting place was down stairs the lunch was upstairs and the sunday school was upstairs. At sunday school we learned about 'baby Jesus'. We had a (short) story about baby Jesus then got onto the activity. Our first activity was to colour in a donkey, use double sided cellotape to join the (at this time we were sucking a lollipop) donkey together to make a puppet. Our second activity was to get 2 star shaped pieces of paper stick them on each side of a fat popstick. Then we were givven a box shaped thing and we put (stinky) hay inside. Then we were given some plasticine (mine was orange) to make baby jesus some other people had spare (pink) plasticine so I gave baby Jesus some pinnk hair and shorts...at the end of sunday school we were given a box of lollies to eat in the meeting. After the meeting ended we had lunch...I had soup and bread, then jelly and a couple of chocolates (that mum had brought). After lunch we played at the park that was at the end of the street. We were given some grapes to eat during the meeting. When we got back we had another meeting. It wasn't that long...while the second meeting went I changed baby Jesus into a ball, then a bee with pink stripes then into a butterfly. After the meeting we had a few grapes left over so we had a grape fight...we stuck grapes down another girls shirt she tried to get us back but we stuck one in her handbag and she went looking for it cause she didn't want it to mush under all her things...we stuck some more down her shirt and so on. (She did get a couple down our shirts). Then we went back to Uncle Shaun and Aunty Linda's place. We had to go basically straight away.

This is a movie of the fireworks.

The Lake District

At the Lake District we hired five bikes. We rode through the mountains and got filthy!Then we rode through mud puddles that were at least 5 inches deep, Mum couldn't even ride though a teeny weeny teeny puddle!

When Dad zoomed down the mountain(and I mean zooooooooooooooomed) he neary fell off his bike turning a sharp corner - some of the hills we climbed were very tiring. My shirt got so muddy that the mud wouldn't come out so now I think it will be going into the bin! We rode for about 2 1/2 hours - I don't think I'd do it again because it was mostly riding uphill but Sam loved it.

On Sunday morning we drove to the meeting past Lake Windermere. It was raining boots and umbrellas (ouch, ouch). We could see the Lake was higher than the day before and some of the fields were flooded already.

We found the meeting at last and went in. After each meeting they have lunch at the hired hall - there was a sports court in the hall with a room full of equipment to play with. There were two other children at the meeting - one was Rowan and his sister was Shara. We played soccer - girls onto boys. The score was pretty close - we think it was a draw. Rowan is 12yrs old and Shara is 14 yrs. Then we had lunch. It was yum. I had pizza and some salad, then for dessert I had a cherry liquer chocolate which I hated, then I had a bit of jelly and after that some ice-cream. This is Sam, Matt & Rowan.

When we drove back to Aberdeen while Sam, Matt and I were sleeping, Mum and Dad went through a place where the road was flooded over all the lanes on our side. Dad had to wait in traffic for an hour. Then further up the road and there were more large puddles over half of the lanes - Dad didn't think it was as deep as it was and went through it quite fast and his windscreen got covered and he couldn't see for a while.

While I was asleep in the car I was sleeptalking and went "doh, doh, DOH" with my eyes open and then smiled at Mum and went back to sleep straight away. Mum and Dad said they were laughing their heads off! Then later Sam mumbled a few things and started fighting himself in his sleep!