First Family Trip and Abi's 1st Wedding...

"What a lovely time we had the weekend we went to Scotland! la la la"

For the Easter weekend, all three of us drove up to Scotland stopping en route for the night both ways (we're not crazy like SOME people I could mention!) as gone are the days of just ploughing through and doing the long haul, we now have to stop for nappies/bottle/sludge feeds galore, or .... so we thought. Abi it turns out is a natural traveller for now at least, and she took to it so well we did not even stop on our way back and did it in two four hour stints via Morecome Bay, nice view, weird statue (Eric), not much else (in case your wondering).

As you can see from the pic included my lovely family scrub up pretty well, the wedding took place on a posh estate southwest of Edinburgh, and when I say posh, I mean posh, the grounds were so extensive that 24/7 4x4s were on call to transport guests from lodge to loch to mansion etc etc, so we could call up on our mates on the non partying side of the estate (they were in the owners spare room) and get them over to our palatial lodge for a chinese and bevvy or two no problem! If anyone is looking for a great place to do a posh weekend then we would all recommend Harburn House

We even had Dolly Parton , Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson singing for us at the reception! The Bride and Groom are professional musicians, and have a far reaching list of equally talented mates who all took the mic from the singer of the band at the reception. It was high standard of performing, well until some drunkard stole the mic from Michael to do a bizarre impersonation of a trumpet!? And the bridge and groom were not to dissapoint either both performing for us, the grooms drum duet was IMMENSE it blew our minds, and somehow managed to lull Abi to sleep?

On a more down to earth note, having a pit stop at the motorway service station, where we all had something to eat, Abi included, using the baby feeding facilities, microwave etc, was lovely. For the years that I have yearned to be a mum and have stopped off at these places and imagined what it would be like to be there with our child, and then to actually be there - BLISS, total and utter contentment!