Loch Ness

We took a trip to Scotland to see if we could find "Nessie" the Loch Ness Monster. Nessie sent each child a message along the way: Jordan got one delivered from her Primary teacher who stopped by just as we were leaving...Seth got a letter from Nessie at a library that we stopped at...and Kailey received a letter at breakfast from the waiter when we were in Scotland. All of the letters gave us facts about Nessie and gave us encouragement to look for her. We searched and, we are pretty confident that we could see her shadow every time we searched the loch (lake)...it was as if she were following us! See if you can see her in our pictures!

We made the error of going on a weekend with a bank holiday. In England, a bank holiday happens once a month, but, what we didn't realize is that on certain bank holidays, it is virtually impossible to find a hotel en route. We drove on Saturday night from York and decided to get as far as we could-- we drove to Eidenborough and tried about 10 hotels with no luck, so we kept driving-- over the next 5 hours, we tried about 20-30 hotels with no luck-- we finally pulled over at 2:00 a.m and slept in our car. The sun comes up at 4:30 in Scotland, so, Alan and I had more of a "nap" in the car!! Alas--