Climbing Up The Walls

Birthday celebrations started early this year, with a trip down to the EICA Clip'n' Climb for Joey.  He's wanted to go ever since his favourite cousin went last for his birthday, so you knows... despite the 2.5+ hour drive, why not!

It really did look like such fun, and is totally the sort of climbing / scrambling that I love to do. But I refused to pay an extra £40 for the Don and I to join in!  So we just stood around FREEZING watching the boys have fun.  Which, you know, is what a birthday party is all about!

And since some cousins live in Edinburgh anyway, and others are through in French school every Saturday morning (and others, though we didn't get a photo of them, live just an hour south), we decided to get together and celebrate Kelling-style:

Two of the birthday clebrants!

It was a fun (if blustery) day out, made even better by McDonalds for lunch and Fire-Away pizza for tea. Can't really beat that birthday treat, can you Joey?!?