So 1 X Super sent home to the USA. He's been on his flight for around three hours now, haven't heard of any problems so far so he should be home around 11am US time.
**Massive post alert**Recap of the holiday -
Last Friday- Left at about 6.30 to head to the airport. Super's flight came in on time at around 7.30 am. However he took about half an hour to get off the plane ;p All these people came off before him and after a while I was getting a bit panicky that I hadn't seen him yet. He arrived in the waiting area just as I was coming back from the toilet >.> Turns out that he was the last one off the plane. Got a hug, then he met my mum and her friend and we set off home for my mum's place. At my mum's place we spent some time getting to know each other, he showed me the Virginia Beach tshirt and the books he brought me, went out for lunch at a local cafe, then super crashed for a few hours. Later on in the day for dinner we headed out to the local chip shop. Super wasn't yet brave enough to try haggis yet though so he had fried chicken strips and chips and I went for the spicy haggis myself. Pickled onions too. We also picked up some Irn Bru, Coke, milk and cereal at the local grocery store too. Went home, ate dinner, then we settled in and relaxed for the night.
Saturday- We headed up to Falkirk town. It was decent enough weather to start with so we just walked into the town main. Showed Super around a local park on the way. Visited the local library, then showed Super around the high street and we went to McDonald's for lunch. CT panic moment since I thought I lost my money (over £250 spending money >.> ) but after a phone call to my mum it turned out I'd just left the money at home <.< After lunch had just enough money for a movie so we headed down to the local theatre. Unfortunately there wasn't anything good showing so we headed back to my mum's. Oh yeah on the way down we went into Pets at Home to look at the bunnies *^_^* Went to the chip shop again in the evening just to get a chipsteak supper for my mum.
Sunday- We made sure that we had everything ready to take with us to the holiday cottage later on in the day and then we went grocery shopping. That was fun and we made a good bargain too. It really didn't turn out all that expensive and we got a lot of stuff. Super spoiled me by carrying the shopping bags on the bus ;) In the afternoon my mum's friend came for us at 2.30 and we headed off for our next destination. Once we arrived it turned out we were a bit early and the lady wasn't ready for us yet so we took a bit of a look around outside the cottage. Then we got back in the car because it was cold ;p The lady came to get us shortly afterwards and my mum's friend helped us carry our baggage into the cottage. We were given the keys to the cottage and shown how the electricity metre worked and where our invoice was. My mum's friend and the lady then headed off to allow Super and I to settle into the cottage. We unpacked and put away the food, then later on we had duck with hoi sin sauce and pancakes for dinner.
Monday- Was Falkirk Wheel day. We were up early and had breakfast then we headed out on the walk. From the cottage we walked to the
Antonine Wall at
Rough Castle Super got to see the remains of Roman trenches, read some plagues with information about the sites and see plenty of pretty Scottish scenary including rolling hills, roiling burns and snowy mountains. From the Antonine Wall site we kept going and walked through some more Scottish country side to the Wheel. On the way I showed Super some woodland where people go horseriding. Once we got to the Wheel it started pouring down with rain so we were glad to be inside for a while in the visitor centre. I introduced Super to scones at the cafe and we nibbled on that and shared a can of Irn Bru while we waited for our boat ride to start. Twenty minutes later we headed out to the boat launching area and went on the Falkirk Wheel boat ride. Our tour guide was called Mike. There was also some girl taking photographs. It was also apparently senior citizens day out or something as Super and I were among the few young people on the boat. The old gears had apparently arrived on a tour bus too. The ride was enjoyable even though I've been on it before, it's always fun to do it again and Super found the engineering of the wheel to be interesting. Afterwards we headed back into the visitor's centre where Super picked up some touristy stuff for his family and then we left to find a bus stop. Quickly dropped in on my mother to have a brief chat and let her know how we were doing then we went to Falkirk town again. This time for Pizza Hut - the buffet special. Delicious. Finally we headed back to the cottage and decided to use the jacuzzi/hotub. On the way back from Falkirk on the bus we realized how the weather had really turned out quite nice and thankfully it held by the time the water was ready for us. Well it was cold (until we got into the water) but the sun was showing and the sky was blue. After that we went back to the cottage. On the way back I spied the site cats and so made some new friends *^_^* The black and white kitty only had three legs though =( He seemed really friendly and happy though so yeah good for him. Once back in the cottage we relaxed for the night and watched Resident Evil.
Tuesday- Visited my grandparents. My papa was just heading off out when we arrived though but he and Super did get to meet briefly. He'd also decided to treat us to money for dinner at the local pub later on since he couldn't go with us >_> My gran made Super a cup of tea and my aunt was also there. Later on my younger cousin also dropped by. Super spent a while chatting and getting to know them all. Then we headed back down to Bonnybridge village and went to the Bridge Inn for dinner. We had massive cheeseburger meals with fries and salad and for treats Super had a Tenants and I had chocolate fudge cake with ice cream *^_^* We took our time having a nice walk back to the cottage and then we watched another movie - Resident Evil 2.
Wednesday- Burnout was definitely starting to show it's face by the middle of the week so we decided to cancel our plans for St Andrews. The weather was awful, I wasn't really feeling that great and Super seemed content just to laze about instead ;) So yeah we didn't do much on Wednesday apart from go to town and pick up another DVD. Oh and Grandia 2 *^_^* We also visited another local shop. Once back at the cottage I cooked dinner - a turkey stir fry - and then we watched 28 Days later. Third zombie movie in a row that failed to freak me out that much o_o
Thursday- Another eventful day. We were up early to head out to Stirling castle. Decided to take the scenic route through Plean on the bus but Super got distracted by a newspaper so he missed it ;p Once in Stirling we went for lunch at Jimmy Chung's first - chinese buffet - since the prices there are more expensive later on in the day. We also stop by a tourist shop so Super could get more gifts. Then we walked up to Stirling Castle, it's mostly all uphill to get there so it was a steep climb. Had to stop for a break on the way up, we sat on a nice bench by some cannons and got some pictures =-) Headed the rest of the way up to the castle, bought tickets, explored. Last time I was at Stirling Castle I was much younger so it was nice to experience it again. Renovations had been done since then and there was a lot of new information up. We visited the Scottish Experience, Great Kitchens, the Tapestry Workshop and the Great Hall section of the castle as well as wandering around the courtyards and seeing the cannons, the outter defences, etc and the stunning scenary from the crag Stirling Castle stands on. Once we'd seen all that we wanted to see (Super also wanted to take pictures from the wall but decided it was too windy) we headed back off to the bus station. Walk downhill was much easier but we discussed what the area must be like in icy and snowy weather which was interesting. I bought some milk shake and soda on the way back down since I felt really thirsty. Super popped back into the touristy place again, I bought some domestic stuff then we went home. Once our bus trips were complete I decided to treat Super to a cab to the cottage since his ribs were sore and I was goddamn sore too. Back at the cottage we watched Dawn of the Dead which even managed to get to me a little
That chainsaw scene was brutal. Plus poor Andy =(
Friday- We made like bums in the morning until later in the day upon which we headed through to Denny where Super got to meet my key workers. He also got to see my room which surprisingly wasn't too messy (I wasn't sure what state I'd left it in >_>) Decided to subject Super to some Legend of Dragoon torture so he got to see me do over 9000 damage to Divine Dragon Spirit with Meru. Super then demanded I go kicked some Melbu butt. I got too reckless and sent Haschel in with only 1HP for some Destroyer Mace abuse but unfortunately got caught out before I could heal in time so Haschel went down after only two powered up Omnisweeps. That left Melbu and Dart to hold the forte since I'd packed no revival items for the trip. It went pretty well with Divine Dragoon abuse until his fourth form where I made the mistake of going dragoon for the second time where upon Melbu promptly used dragoon blocker causing the one of the little monsters to do over 3000 damage to Dart >_> By this point I was also out of healing items. Meru held her ground solo for a while even eventually triple turning but being a dumbass I didn't guard on the third turn thinking I had enough HP to survive a couple of more attacks when I didn't D= Next time round I healed Haschel up before heading into the fight and didn't go for full out Destroyer Mace until into the fight when Melbu finally managed to lower his HP into the red. In the meantime Omnisweep was going for 1000~ a pop, then 3000~ with powered up Destroyer Mace and Power Up, then 2000~ once Power Up wore off. Haschel did eventually die again but by that time he'd kicked so much ass Dart and Meru easily managed to finish Melbu off. Bottom line is Haschel is the man. Meru's speed was fun to behold as well even though I didn't have Legend Casque and Armour of Legend on her since I was being nice to Melbu ;) After Super had his Melbu abuse quota sufficiently sated we headed to Denny downtown. I went to the chemist then we went to the library. Used one of the computers for a while then picked up Resident Evil 3. Went home and watched it. We also did some packing up and general cleaning of the cottage and I made pasta (with carbonara sauce, cooked saugage and butter) before hand.
Saturday- Super tries haggis and black pudding! Super spoils CT rotten with a phenomenal birthday gift!
Yeah we were pretty much bums Saturday. Except when gave the cottage a spring clean in the morning to leave it all shiny and sparkly by leaving time. Had an oh crap moment when I couldn't switch the shaving mini light off in the bathroom and Super revealed he had pulled the bead from the switch, thought we might end up having to pay for it. The lady was very nice and understanding though when she came over to check our meter for the trip. I just explained the situation and she said not to worry about it. Sometimes honesty pays *^_^* She also gave us a lift down from the cottage to my mum's house. We went for our chippy at night yeah and then we went to bed early in order for Super getting up in the morning. We got up proper at 4.30 am and he headed off to Edinburgh at 5.15 to catch the 8 am flight.
Hmmm .... what else. Cottage was very nice, beautiful with stylish and trendy designs. Had all the mod cons, washing machine, cooker, microwave, fridge, etc which we made full use of. There was an interesting collection of books too though we didn't have time to read any. DVD collection sucked though, we had to buy our own. Spa area was awesme as was the surrounding countryside. The hosts were nice, nice lady, nice husband, nice kids. They all lived in a big fancy house. Nice cats and chickens too.
We had to walk like four miles every day (two from the cottage and two back) which was certainly something else. My feet and calfs were gutted by the end of the week though I picked up my trainers from my room Friday which helped somewhat.
Super was awesme *^_^* He made me sausage and omelettes with toast for breakfast when we weren't having cereal. I handled making the coffee for most of the trip though Super had become pretty good at making it by the end of the trip. He also took care of my poor feet and calves, bought me presents, etc. I took good care of him too *^_^*
We went for a walk round the local area one day as well, climbed over a stile into a field then climbed up a mound called the Elven Hill which was next to a loch. So yeah Super got to see a loch as well, it was very pretty, a right bird/wildlife haven~
