Sunny Aberdeen?

So it was a fabulously sunny and warm week in Aberdeen and we couldn't believe it! Our dear friend Gisella and her boys Niki and Beni were fabulous hosts and made our stay comfortable and fun. The kids loved having their best friends to play with and it was nice that Gi lived in a place that was so safe and fun for the kids to play at. The picture above is us in Edinburgh on our way home.
This is the way the kids slept. Together in a single bed. They went to sleep with no issues every night, we couldn't believe it. How cute are they?

Ice cream by the beach at sunset. BEAUTIFUL! Katya told me she was tired of taking pictures and it was "boring". So she hid behind me. Boring is her favorite new word. She uses it to describe pretty much anything she doesn't like.

At Crathes Castle they were looking for the secret garden in the main garden. They loved running about like crazies!

Here we are. Crathes Castle was given to the Burnett family by Robert the Bruce in the 15th century. It has amazing painted ceiling from the 16th century. It was a lot of stairs to climb and the monkeys even liked it!

Climbing the sea wall at Aberdeen beach. It provided lots of fun and games! Can you believe how good they are at keeping hats on? I am!
Katya and Niki posing as the Karate Kid. She loved borrowing Beni's wet suit. She could swim in the waves and not get cold. Martin on the other hand had very cold legs. It is the North Sea!

As you can see in the following pictures Katya has decided that posing for pictures is REALLY cool. She comes up with amazing ways of contorting her body to look cool and funny. It makes for hilarious pictures at least!


Posing best friends in downtown Aberdeen.


Hank and Leah will love this. This costume caused yet another holiday spider man melt-down for poor Oliver Cormac. He didn't want to EVER take it off and it is Beni's and Beni wanted a turn. We had to shut him into our room for 45 minutes before he stopped screaming. Gisella put it away so we wouldn't have to freak out anymore. At least it was at home not in the mall like last time. I am seriously wondering if Oliver will stop believing in Santa Claus if he doesn't get a spider man costume for Christmas, because it is ALL HE TALKS ABOUT! And I am not sure that he will ever wear anything else if he gets one?


Ice creams on Stonehaven beach. We had to do the play in your underpants thing because we weren't expecting such a beautiful sunny day. They didn't care and it was really empty on the beach so we didn't either!


View of the coast from Dunnottar Castle! It was the coolest ruined castle I have EVER seen and the kids loved it as much as we did. Only carrying Oliver up the steps was not fun for Martin!

Daddy and Oliver hanging out on the rocks on the beach near Dunnottar castle. Oliver has no fear climbing up anything, its the coming down that he struggles with! I guess that explains his ability to climb into his baby cot, but disability to climb out. Also his love for climbing onto Katya's top bunk and then yelling for someone to help him down. He is hilarious!

Here we are before the descent and then ascent to Dunnottar Castle. It was amazing!

I couldn't picture a more perfect ruined Scottish cliff side castle. It was like movie!