After a blissful few days in Belgium with my mom and dad, Eddie and I were able to steal ourselves away to Edinburgh for four sunny days with Alex and Connor.
At the moment Eddie and I are camped out in the KLM lounge at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam - our home away from home. It's nearly time to board our return flight to Beijing and I'm considering latching myself to the chair so we can't leave. I know how very lucky we are - that our chosen lifestyle provides us the opportunity to see the world, to taste and smell and hear the world. But there are days I'm enough of the sights and sounds and smells of China. A week in beautiful Belgium and green Scotland make it awfully hard to return to the dusty, polluted business of Beijing.
This week proved to be well worth all the fuss of packing and unpacking and fighting our way through airport security check ins. A day with my mom and dad in downtown Brussels drinking Belgium beer and gorging on Belgium chocolate was well worth the hassle of international travel. Four sunny days with the boys in our favourite city in the world made six flights, two parking tickets and remembering to stay on the left side of the road worth it.
Naturally we geocached our way through Edinburgh.
Here we are underneath Dean Bridge
- a beautiful leafy little village tucked inside Edinburgh.
Runners, bikers and dog walkers enjoyed the rustic path as much as we did.
Our second geocache in Princess Gardens.
This time the boys mastered a puzzle cache. A brilliant find!
My favourite picture of the boys from this trip.
Alex is truly becoming a teenager.
He spent four days happily encased in his headphones listening to his music.
Naturally Connor talked away at him as though he was listening to every word.
It's a fantastic treat that the boys' taste buds are expanding.
We've spent the last couple of years convincing them
to give up chicken nuggets and hot dogs with ketchup.
It was Connor's idea to try this Middle Eastern restaurant along the Royal Mile.
Not a bite was left.
Our first official visit to Canongate Kirk where we will be married in April of next year!
After a half hour meeting with the reverend at Canongate the boys let off a bit of steam.
A trip to Edinburgh wouldn't be complete without a stop on Rose Street for Eddie to have a pint.
So brilliant to be able to take the boys to their first opera.
They loved the Scottish Opera's performance of Pirates of Penzance.
On our last day in Edinburgh Eddie's mom, sister and her husband and son joined us for a trip to the Botanic Gardens. The sun behaved beautifully and it was a grand family reunion.
It's only a matter of months now before we pound the pavement along Princess Street.
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