Post Christmas update!
Dec. 26th, 2009 07:07 pmChristmas was good. Today was also good. Yesterday Sam and I went to the Cathedral where we heard a sermon that was about evolution and grace and alturism and got to sing more Christmas carols. Then we had breakfast and then we did presents! Sam got me Terry Pratchett's latest non-Discworld novel Nation, which I have been eyeing in every bookshop I've been in since it came out; Art Spiegelberg's Maus, a graphic novel about the Hollocaust; and more than enough chocolate to be going on with for the moment. Yay. Also D&R from church gave me a really lovely scarf.
We went out to dinner at a hotel. It was very nice. Swish. They didn't do Christmas dinner, but I got to have lamb and then creme brulee nd a Baileys chocolate mouse cake dessert thing. The coffee wasn't very good, but the shortbread made up for it. Before dinner we watched the first two parts of the 2007 miniseries Tin Man, which is an adaptation/re-invention of The Wizard of Oz. *They're out of copyright, so you can read them all on line via the Gutenberg Project.)
Today we went on a cruise on Loch Ness. Cold! And there was fog obscuring the tops of all the hills. But it was mostly clear on the actual water and we had a good sight of Urquart Castle and the landscape. Sam made some photos of the Loch Ness Monster. They were playing The Wizard of Oz - the musical film - on the tv at the cafe there while we having lunch. Whiskey Cake with lunch. V. yummy.
We went to the frozen supermarket today to get microwavable things for dinner. It's like a supermarket except that it pretty much only sells frozen foods. Ready made meals but also bits of meals - fish sticks and desserts and icecream and party food. Also yoghurt, which is good. We will be eating some for breakfast with our panetone. We're leaving on the early train to Edinburgh!
The driver on the way to Loch Ness said that the snow that we've had here is unusual, at least in recent years. It was officially a white Christmas in Inverness. Another guest here was telling us about that. Apparently it's something you bet on.
Hopefully the trains will be running okay tomorrow. But even if they're not, there are two other possibilities for later connections or trains.
We went out to dinner at a hotel. It was very nice. Swish. They didn't do Christmas dinner, but I got to have lamb and then creme brulee nd a Baileys chocolate mouse cake dessert thing. The coffee wasn't very good, but the shortbread made up for it. Before dinner we watched the first two parts of the 2007 miniseries Tin Man, which is an adaptation/re-invention of The Wizard of Oz. *They're out of copyright, so you can read them all on line via the Gutenberg Project.)
Today we went on a cruise on Loch Ness. Cold! And there was fog obscuring the tops of all the hills. But it was mostly clear on the actual water and we had a good sight of Urquart Castle and the landscape. Sam made some photos of the Loch Ness Monster. They were playing The Wizard of Oz - the musical film - on the tv at the cafe there while we having lunch. Whiskey Cake with lunch. V. yummy.
We went to the frozen supermarket today to get microwavable things for dinner. It's like a supermarket except that it pretty much only sells frozen foods. Ready made meals but also bits of meals - fish sticks and desserts and icecream and party food. Also yoghurt, which is good. We will be eating some for breakfast with our panetone. We're leaving on the early train to Edinburgh!
The driver on the way to Loch Ness said that the snow that we've had here is unusual, at least in recent years. It was officially a white Christmas in Inverness. Another guest here was telling us about that. Apparently it's something you bet on.
Hopefully the trains will be running okay tomorrow. But even if they're not, there are two other possibilities for later connections or trains.
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