Hammond Tanks

Last year we won a raffle prize of a family ticket to Bovington Tank Museum, so we decided with the last weekend to go before the ticket expires we should venture out. The museum stocked 260 tanks just when you think you have seen 1 a different one comes along. The museum was very put together starting with world 1 and ending with tanks of today.

New recruits!

Who wants to join Rebecca and her army! I know which side I am joining!

The smile of victory

In to the trenches we go!

Inverness Panoramic

Panoramic Inverness view - can you spot the join!

Trip to Inverness Part 2

View from the hotel, loch ness river

After a previous hard day's work we decided to take the morning off and take a trip to hunt for nessie.

Looks like we were out of luck, the nessie hunter was not there or was had he been eaten!

Just to make sure the sat nav directions were correct.

No its not the Nessie!!

But is that the nessie

Trip to Inverness Part 1

On my first visit to the Inverness highlands I was greeted with sunshine and warmth which is not common for that area. Once arrived at my hotel in my hire car of a brand new Kia sportage, we were feeling very peckish, so we ordered from the restaurant.

Free canapés - Duck heart, salmon balls, caviare

Tomato Jelly, Lettuce soup and something else but who cares it was free!

Now the expensive stuff!

Pigeon with cuckoo spit

Sea Bass with more cuckoo spit

Spooky Cookies

On my return from the creek I was baring gifts for the kids, one of which was a spooky making cookie kit, which consisted of gumball eyes, candy teeth, and chewy worms.   One dinner the kids did enjoy!

Olympic Hammond

Trip to the Olympic park was amazing, we woke at 3am and set off to catch the coach at Ringwood. Spent time in the stadium with amazing atmosphere then took a trip around the park to check out the rest. Coming home was a disaster first we could not find the coach stop to get back to Victoria and none else could help so we braved the London underground and survived, then once at Victoria we had a coach driver but no coach, so he had to find a replacement which was good but had no air conditioning working. Finally back at Ringwood to find out that we had left an internal car battery light on and had a flat battery. All in all it was a good day

Up the orbit tower next.

The things you do for a free bottle of coke

Shame we could not pick up a free BMW

Olympic torch come and went

The Olympic torch relay came to Weymouth and the children were allowed to take time out of school to see this once in a lifetime occasion.

Waiting for this historic moment, with our freebie samsung clappers and cola drums

The crowd gathers, the police man is very good at standing still and in the way.

Looks like someone has kidnapped the Olympic mascot

Here comes the torch

There goes the torch!

Little did we know that torch handover was about 50 yards up the road, but we did manage to see some of us on the London 2012 torch relay video site.