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!