fun things

Last Friday (25th March) after School we went to a fun park called the Meadows in Edinburgh and had lots of fun.  To get into the park we climbed through a little tunnel.  We even made mum climb through it as well.  She wasn't very good at it.  They had lots of things to play on, like a flying fox, and a turn table ride where we spun ourselves around and tried to jump on and off.  Daddy spun mum around in a spinning cup thing and she got very sick.  She was laughing so much but said she didn't really like it.  She felt sick all night.

On Saturday we went to lunch with Dad's work friend called Jin, his wife and two girls.  They gave us a box of really yummy cookies!  We had lunch at a chinese yum cha restaurant and it was very yummy.  I loved the noodles the best.  Ollie liked the prawn dumplings, dad tried the tripe and said it was good, mum tried the chicken feet and said they were ok, but not much meat on them!

On Sunday we went to Edinburgh Zoo!  We saw penguins, leopards, monkeys, seals, flamingos (dad said they only had one leg!), cheeky baboons, lions, and painted wild dogs.  The dogs are not really painted by humans.  We saw penguins that looked like the ones off "Surf's Up", and a Pengcow - here is the picture:

Here are some of the other penguins:

My favourite was the baboons because they were very funny, the baby baboons were wrestling and looked so cute!

There was a big building called living links that had heaps of capuchin monkeys that people study.  All the monkeys had necklaces so that the people could tell them appart.  There was a book that told us what their names were based on the colour of their necklace.  The monkey below had a black and yellow necklace. Her name was Ellie!  She was so cute.

The leopards came up very close to the glass screen.

Then we went home and rested up for school on Monday.

On Tuesday it was parent teacher night.  My teachers said I was very good and that they want me to stay in Edinburgh.  Ollie's teacher, Ms Duncan, really likes him and he doesn't seem to be stressing her out, unlike his effect on Ms Strang and Mrs Tag :) .  He has been trying really hard and gets along well with everyone in his class.  He says that he has NEVER got his name on the board at the Royal Mile Primary School, and now remembers to take off his gym shoes, put his homework in his tray and is putting spaces between his words when writing.  He even finally finished a picture that all the other kids had already started before we got to Scotland, all the class clapped and cheered when he finished ... At the Royal Mile Primary School, all the classes have a teacher and a teachers assistant ... I think this makes their job a lot easier!  Mum and Dad were so proud of us!  We will be very sad to leave our new school, but miss our friends at Nillo very much.

Today (Friday 1st April) mum and dad took us to Queens Park to climb up to Arthurs Seat, which is an old volcano!  We drove up to a loch, which is Scottish for a lake, and then climbed up from there.  It was very hard to climb, so we took turns in getting piggy backs from dad to help us up.  It was so windy up there that we nearly got blown off the mountain!  We had to try to stay close to the ground so the wind didn't get us, you can see how our hair was getting blown around in the photos.  I was very scared of the wind, and we were so high up!  Ollie likes the mountain climbing.  After we got to the top, we walked down the whole way with dad, and mum met us at the bottom near the Palace in the car.  Here are some photo's:

As a reward for being "Pete Persistent's" and getting right up to the top, dad took us to the movies to see "Hop", it was really good.

We only have one week to go before we leave Edinburgh, then we go to London for a few days, then Paris for a week, where we will go to Disneyland for Ollie's 6th birthday, and then we will go to Germany to live for 2 months.  Mum and dad said we are going through an underwater tunnel on a train to get to France!

From Amelie