Fun at Christmas!

Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays everyone!

We are just finishing our wonderful Christmas break, so I thought that I would take time to share with you some of our fun experiences over the last few weeks. We had an amazing visit with Kim's Mom and Dad, brother Steven, his wife Courtney, and their two beautiful little boys Grayson and Brody. We did so many fun things that I am going to put them into 2 or 3 blog entries. I hope that you enjoy looking at these photos as much as we do.

"Merry Christmas everybody!"

The 3 kids loved making and decorating their own gingerbread cookies. I think that the cookies lasted for all of 5 minutes before they ate them!

The lights of Edinburgh are beautiful at this time of year. This is the Scott Monument with the Christmas ferris wheel set up in the background.

Below the ferris wheel they made an outdoor skating rink. Isaiah and I had a lot of fun skating outside until it started to grow dark.


Here we are proudly wearing our Canucks jerseys. Not only were we clearly the best skaters, but we were the best dressed as well!

Here we are on the ferris wheel a few days later. It was pretty cold up there in the wind!

Sophia, looking beautiful as always

Here Steve, Courtney, Kim and I are setting off to climb to the top of Arthur's Peak (or Archie's Head, as Kim's Mom calls it). The girls were very confident at the start, but extremely slippery frozen slopes caused them to make a wise choice and only send the guys (after ensuring that our life insurance policies were up to date).

However, the ice didn't stop this elderly cane-bearing woman from making the trek. Steve and I thought that we were pretty adventurous until we saw her in front of us. It made for some good teasing of the girls though.

Partway up, I'm thoughtfully pausing to look over the foggy city. I'm sure that I didn't know that my picture was being taken with my camera.

This a photo of the city from the top of Arthur's seat. You can just see the dark silouette of Edinburgh Castle far away on the right side of the photo.

Cheers to a great hike and a lots of fun on the break! Scotland's national drink with a little Scottish snow on top!