Edinburgh Zoo Visit One

For my birthday, my wonderful sisters got me a pass to the Edinburgh Zoo, which is incredible! You guys know how much I like the zoo, and zoos in general, I have now had multiple posts about it and I am pretty sure not a year goes by without me going. So you would think that I would have less photos, but I possibly have more! So get excited we are going to the zoo again!

It turned out to be an excellent day to go out for a big giant walk, the weather was amazing, in the sun it could actually be warm and so it was basically perfect. Dixon hadn't been to the zoo for at least ten year, me its been only a few months. But it was really great, apparently now that I am a member I can go into the members building, I didn't, cause I wasn't sure I was allowed, I know silly. But that is something to look forward to next time. Also the membership allows me to go the a few international zoos and the Highland Wildlife Park in Scotland, so I am hoping that when Dixon gets his license we will go to some of them!

It was brilliant we got to see the Sun Bears play fighting with each other, the pelicans looked amazing and they were so much bigger than I thought they would be, the otters were playing, the penguins were being fed. So it was fun because it was a little bit different again. So enjoy the photos!

 

Courtyard

I gave a few wee updates to make, and probably a couple posts that I have not been keeping up with but they are on their way. So exciting news is on its way I think! 

February has been cold, but surprisingly sunny a lot of the days and we totally lucked out last Sunday with great weather. So I took advantage of my new Royal Zoological Society Pass that I got for my Birthday, and went to the zoo! But I haven't edited the photos for that yet so that will come soon! 

So for now I found a wee courtyard just beyond the Writers Museum and snapped so photos hopefully that will tide you over. 

I forgot to post this before, and apparently because blogger is on google and I've linked the account google sometimes makes photos out of your photos, so from my previous post about the big wheel,  it stitched a couple photos together and came out with this beauty!

The Big Wheel

So I have been away to Canada the past week and a bit, well I have been back a few days too, but I had a really good visit with some of my friends and most of my family. So I really appreciate all the effort that everyone put in to see me and getting me from one place to another. I did take a bunch of photos while I was there but not really any of the actual places I stayed. I reverted to my non photo taking self. But maybe I have a post in there. 

I got to meet my nieces and they are both such awesome wee people. I could probably fill this blog with pictures of them!

But I realised I am quite behind, Hayley and I went to the Christmas market and on the big wheel way back at the start of the month. So I thought I would go back to that and get some of those photos out there.

I have wanted to go on the big wheel ever since I very first moved here, and yet somehow between working and not wanting to go alone, I have never done it. But it turned out to be a gorgeous day for it, and it couldn't have been better. We finished off the day with mulled wine and churos/crepes.

I didn't find my speculass cookies so I will need to try next year!

The Game Masters

Hello! Back again this December, I didn't know if I would post again before the year was out. I have been super busy working and my days off have been busy too, so this is the first time I have had a chance to actually sit down and post about what we have been doing.

It was my birthday not long ago now and we had some pretty excellent plans, firstly Dixon was going to make me breakfast, but we went out the night before. And boy were we hungover! So we went out for breakfast! We were planning on trying a new place for it, but they stopped serving breakfast at 12, ridiculous! So we went to an old standby, Pappi, and I of course got waffles! They had their new coffee machine installed now, and the coffee was amazing! I didn't get a photo for you of breakfast but you get the idea if you have seen them before.

After eating I for one felt a whole lot better, I think Dixon was putting on a brave face.

Afterwards we went to The Game Masters Exhibit at the National Museum of Scotland, you got to play everything from original Donkey Kong and Pac Man on the Arcade machines, to The Nintendo 3DS, Computer games like Warcraft and Starcraft, PS2 with Shadow of the Colossus, which I have wanted to play again for ages. All the way to indie games for the iPad, with loads of info about their creation and concept art for some as well. It was really cool!

I was hoping to take a lot of photo as we weren't told you couldn't when we went in and there are no signs posted, but my flash went off and this guy came hovering over and said, "You can't take any photos in here" So I was totally fine with this and said sorry and whatnot. Apparently, I didn't sound sincere enough because he felt the need to come closer and say, "If you take any more I will have to ask you to leave" I don't know if that was necessary, but he wasn't on the job too much when other people were snapping away and he was playing Mario 3 on the SNES.

Anyway that didn't dampen my spirits too much, and I had a lot of fun, though Dixon almost had to drag me away from Sonic 2. And he got me a wee souvenir from the exhibit, a Pac Man ice cube tray!

We did also plan to head down to the Christmas market, and get some Mulled Wine, got ice skating and go on the big wheel, but my hangover had not gone away as much as I though it had when I was in the museum. So we just went for a bit of a walk through and then home again to see Gail Gordon and Hayley.