Railways 2

And then at home Wilder needed to have his Brio railway set up in every room (also he's making a train from Duplo at the Lego store).

Railways One

The first weekend of the year, we headed to the Wilton Historical Society to see their annual holiday train show. As you can see the kids were all fascinated by the different layouts they had. Mainly because there were lots of buttons to press that made the trains (and other things) move. 

Aberdeenward bound

After a busy week in Cambridge, Bluet, Ilona and I boarded a train to Aberdeen on Friday morning*. While in Aberdeen we went to Castle Fraser, which was really fun, once the kids were given a checklist of things to spot and tick off. A busy weekend ensued

At Mill House there was a swing to play on

A car Andrew and Nick are building to play in

A tree house Andrew just built to not fall out of

Muffins to eat

And a railway to watch in full steam (NB we must get one of these at our house)

Oh, and bees to visit

*We changed at Peterborough onto a busy train, but as we had reserved seats it was fine. In fact the kids behaved perfectly - probably because I let them play games on phones. At Newcastle we changed again and this time the carriage was so full the passengers did not want to let us on even though we had reserved seats, but we eventually got on and everything was fine; all this because of the Edinburgh festival, the train was empty and peaceful from Waverly onwards. As we then arrived 30 minutes late, 50% of our ticket price was refunded, so it all worked out great. 

& then Simon and Della came to Aberdeen

So our trip to Scotland was so jam packed we're not finished yet. Simon and Della came up for one night while we were there, plenty of time to learn to play rounders with a cricket bat, and visit Burn O'Vat, which I'm pretty sure I've never been to before even though it was so close to where we used to live. There was even a child friendly rock climb at the end.



Burn O'Vat: note Bluet decided she had to carry a home made cardboard treasure chest with her. It also had to come back to Switzerland



And finally, just before we returned to Switzerland, we all enjoyed watching Martin run the trains around the garden



Back in Switzerland