trippingdifferently

… to Scotland that is!
Yep, tomorrow we fly to Scotland for my cousin’s wedding – in a castle, no less!

So this will be short – it’s late & need rest – plus i’m actually still trying to recover from being sick since Thursday.

Thursday – my brother left (he was sick the day before he left) & that night i fell ill & have been since – still suffering from minor sore throat & runny nose – hopefully all clears up real soon!

So more when we get back … i know i know … lots to update on.

Actually, i have been “wasting time” on Facebook – great thing! Try it if u haven’t.

ok have to go – little guy crying in mid-sleep.
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It has been almost a month since our last post – now what have we been up to!! Well, quite a bit.
We’ve been to 1x birthday party (may post about that later), preparing for my brother’s visit (see here for the excitement about it), then we had lots of people around for the 1st of August (Swiss National Day), immediately after which, on 2nd August my brother arrived & we’ve been travelling around with him on top of our normal daily/weekly stuff we do – so it has been a busy time but a very nice time too 😉

So what have we done with my brother since he got here 2x weeks ago? Well, i’ll give a short summary here & i’ll sort thru the photos & put them up later (likely lots later).

We’ve been up to Pilatus (mountain in Luzern, rode the Rodelbahn – summer sledding), Bern (capital), on the Chocolate Train (ate lots of chocolate in a very very short time), Thun (nice little town on a beautiful river, visited the castle there), to Island Mainau (Germany, on Lake Constance), to visit Castle Lenzburg & just went up to a car-less village called Murren today (where Walter finally managed to visit an old friend of his Dad’s).

When my brother 1st got here, he couldn’t get over how quiet it was – he even asked for the TV to be put on just for the sound it gives – hahahha 😉 Now he is so taken in by how beautiful everything is, especially the mountains & the great cool weather – he hates the heat so this has been great for him. Don’t know how he will cope when he gets back to Singapore.

He’s got 2x more weeks – he still wants to see snow & wants to do lots more – so there’ll be more to tell – but that’s all from me for now – my tummy is acting up – not sure why. It does this every now & again – so… my mother would say it’s the body’s way of doing a major clean-out 😦

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So more about the hail – exchanging notes about it with neighbours today – some said they know people with dents on their cars. i didn’t see much damage other than the batted trees & plants – the bad corn fields look really sad now – some are so torn that they look as if it’s just the stalk of the plant left. Then a neighbour highlighted to me that her shutters have lots of dents in them – i check ours & true enough there were the dents!! i tried to get a good picture of the dents but they all didn’t turn out well. So here are more pics about the hail itself.

Here’s one which shows how much had fallen:

This one shows the average size of the hail (so ok i exaggerated a little yesterday 😉

Here’s the pile up round the corner of our apartment:

More later … i will explain in my next post why the mood star shows what it shows.
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