London

Hello from the gigantic city of London!  There is so much to see and do here.  Today we visited Westminster Abbey, where Prince William and Kate Middleton got married.  Then we went to the Tower of London where all sorts of gruesome things happened.  Do you want to know about them?  I'll give you a hint--Two of King Henry the VIII's wives spent their last days at the Tower.  

Also I saw the crown jewels.  I saw the Queen's crowns and the world's largest diamond!  When you want to see the crown jewels you are on a moving sidewalk and you have to be a fast reader to know what you're looking at, because the sidewalk just keeps on moving.  It wasn't very busy today, so we went back and did the moving sidewalk twice.  That's why I got such a good look at the world's biggest diamond!

I'll send photos soon--I get back to my campsite and don't always have time to download photos so it'll be a day or two.  Hope you're all doing well!!

The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond

Hello everyone!

We have been on a hill walk up Ben Lomond.  In Scottish, Ben means mountain.  Ben Lomond is 900m high--which is actually very high.  It was terrible weather.  It rained and then it stopped raining and then it rained some more.  The thing that made it really difficult though was the wind.  It was so windy!  Sometimes the wind actually knocked us over.  We almost turned back several times, but we stuck with it and made it all the way to the top.  Here is a picture of Anne and Kate at the cairn at the top of Ben Lomond.  Can you see how foggy it is?  Usually there are amazing views from up there--you can see the beautiful Loch below, you can see all sorts of hills around, you can see Glasgow and Stirling and even a bridge near Edinburgh (the Forth Rail Bridge)--but on this day the only views we got were of our boots!

Highland Cow on Conic Hill 

Hello everyone!  I'm so excited that I got two comments on my last posts!  Jessica and Hailey sent me some comments and so did Ryley!!!  Ryley is doing well at his new school, but I'm sure you all miss having him in your class.  I am missing all of you.

Views of Loch Lomond from Conic Hill

I want to tell you about the little hill that I climbed the other day.  It is called the Conic Hill and it had amazing views over Loch Lomond.  Loch is the Scottish word for lake.  You can see from these photos that the views are so nice.  Also, I'm putting in a picture of a Highland Cow.  There were lots of them on the side of the path.  Aren't they cute????

My family and me in the mist at the top of the hill.