Back to the Grind... and a Weekend in Aviemore

The past few weeks have been busy, just getting back to our normal schedule of activities. I'm really glad the days are getting longer. In December we were really missing the sun. Daylight started around 8:30 and it was getting dark at 3:30. Right now daylight is around that time but it is getting dark at 4:30. Yay for longer days, it just keeps getting better from here and into the summer!!

Trent and Landon are enjoying Kinder and Preschool and their afterschool activites...football (soccer) 2 days a week, swimming and basketball for Trent. We will start golf again in February. I have been enjoying working out most everyday and catching up with friends. I've been spending a lot of time researching and planning our trips this year. There are so many places we want to visit!! I still have not booked our Spring holiday trip. Lets see, it started with planning a snow ski trip to the Swiss Alps. After spending much time looking into this we finally decided we may not want to be in a cold climate for a week break after its been so cold here in Aberdeen, Scotland!! We decided we want to go someplace warm and get some sun!! Next place on my bucket list...Turkey or Greece. We also would like to visit Florence and Venice, Italy. Looked into this, but it is still cold there in March and April. So we looked into going to Tenerife in the Canary Islands, which is where most of the locals go for a holiday as it is beautiful, warm and there is a direct flight out of Aberdeen. Considering this, but last night Jon and I got really excited at the idea of going to Dubai and staying at the Atlantis. Super awesome hotel, beautiful, tons of things for the kids to do, and we can do some sight seeing. It is a 6 hour flight from Amsterdam, not too bad.

This weekend we took a last minute trip to Aviemore to let the boys see some snow. Not much of that here in Aberdeen yet!! We were going to attempt to ski on the mountain but Trent came down with a terrible stomach virus. So we did as little as possible and mainly stayed close to the hotel. We drove up near the mountain to watch the Husky Dog Sled races which was interesting because there wasn't much snow at the base of the mountain! We let the boys play in the snow at the top and saw a heavy snowfall, and played some put put golf at the hotel.  We really enjoy driving around Aviemore as it is a beautiful area of forests, lakes and snow topped mountains. Love it!!