First we went to Stirling to see the Castle. We got to Stirling a bit early and the castle wasn't open yet. We went for a walk to get some breakfast and saw some cannons. We sat on them and got very cold bums.
At the castle we saw the King and Queens chairs in the Great Hall. Ollie and I sat in the chairs.
The kitchens in the castle were below the canons, when all the canons went off at once, the kitchens got broken. They filled in the kitchens after this, but then later someone dug them back out so people can see what they were like. Now they have statues and things to show us what they had in there. They had dogs and cats eating some of the food, and a dead dear hanging from a branch that people were carrying. They also had a big basket of fish and a pigs head. All the fruit and veges were grown in the Stirling Castle gardens.
The castle has lots of turretts with holes in them to fire arrows. Here is Ollie peaking out of one of the holes.
After the castle we went to see Nanna's cousin Patricia. Nanna had not seen Patricia for 45years, and Patricia still lives in the same house. Nanna used to go to Patricia's house for holidays every summer. She lives in Dumbarton near Glasgow. We had lunch with Patricia and she made us pizza, she was very nice.
After we visited Patricia, we went to Ayr to see where Nanna grew up. We went to the beach, it was a nice beach, but the sand was brown, and it was freezing. On the beach we found a man drawn in the sand, with a rock shaped like a shoe. We found some rocks for Nanna to take home.
There was a round circly swing at the funpark near the beach, it also had some exercise equipment! It was really good. The slippery dip was huge and a bit scary, but Ollie went down the biggest one!
After that we were very tired and drove back to our home in Edinburgh.
Nanna said it was the best day ever!
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