Watch out its the lego plague...

Lol just kidding, the panic (or excitement) can stop now. 

On Tuesday Missie and I went to the National Museum to go see the lego exhibition and the National Library Museum to see the plague exhibition. Big thumbs up to both :)

The lego one had displays of already built stuff, and loose lego to play with (so much fun till some school kids came along :( but don't worry we went back when they left hehe), and also a treasure hunt of mini figurines throughout the library to look for. Below are some of our fav display stuff and treasure hunt figurines and also our creations :) 

The plague exhibition was no photos allowed and actually really informative. Was about all the deadly diseases and epidemics that have hit Scotland. The one that freaked me out the most was that the Black Plague bug is still out there, I thought it had died off but nope. They even had some letters written to loved ones and thanks to Gma sending me letters I could mostly read one of them :) was a bit sad though as the writer was writing to his brother and was saying that his street had been hit with the cholera bug and the people upstairs 3 of them had died from it but so far his family was ok. 

Lego display pics

The Royal Palace

Skytower and some other stuff

Transport stuff

Our fav hidden mini figurines

Our creations

Edinburgh Zoo

Jo, Missie and I went to Edinburgh Zoo today, mostly to see the penguin parade and the penguins but there were also other animals we obviously had to check out, such as the koalas, pandas, lions and tiger. We also saw the sun bear, zebras, kunekune pigs, rhino, snowy white owl, some other random pigs, spoke Aussie to some wallabies, pelicans and meerkats. Think that's about it. We obviously wandered past more animals but didn't really stop and chat to them. 

Missie very quickly decided that she isn't a big zoo fan, she said it was cold and windy and watching animals but not being able to sit on them and pose for photos was boring so she kept warm in my bag with my beanie (am beginning to think she is not a very Scottish bear). 

The penguins were awesome as and they have a daily parade where whichever penguins feel like it can leave the enclosure and waddle out with the public on the parade route then back to the enclosure, they are not forced to do it which is cool. Today only Mr Green felt inclined to go on the wander which was fine, and he totally rocked it :) 

The pandas were cool, the male was sleeping and the female came out to eat while we were there. The male was having a wicked good dream we decided cos he was twitching his ears and nose loads and looked happy as :) he rolled over while we were watching and then his paws started twitching to which was super cute :) 

The rhino was a dick, when we looked for him inside he was outside, we went outside and he decided to go inside, we went inside he went back outside, we went outside and he walked up around the corner to the part of enclosure we couldn't see, yup total dick lol. 

The koalas were all sleeping which was normal but still disappointing. The kunekune pigs were way down the bottom of their paddock so also a lil boring and disappointing. 

The lions were just chilling, knowing they were adorable (in a big cat way) and kept looking up to the viewing platform to make sure we all knew they were adorable. The tiger was just pacing at the top of his enclosure but he looked incredible so I forgave him for being antisocial. 

The wallabies ignored our awesome Aussie accents and just sat there being boring, silly wallabies. They did twitch their ears when I told them their rugby team sucked hehe. 

The sun bear was actually pretty cool, at the wrong end of the enclosure and kinda pacing as well but still cool. 

We then decided it was cuppa tea time and we decided to check on the penguins again to make sure they were all good before we headed home :) 

Overall a very good afternoon and the zoo was def worth the visit :)

If you are wondering why I had a Monday off to go to the zoo it's cos I've got this week off work :) so yup there is likely to be a few updates as have a few things planned :)

Pics - no particular order and in no way near all the ones I took (esp when it comes to the penguins hehe)

Mr Green on penguin parade 

View of city and Pentlands and zebras

Brudda you is awesome

And yes the world needs to know it :) 

Got your letter this morn, nicely done bro, nicely done!

Edinburgh Castle

So last weekend, 6th March to be exact, Salome, Missie and I went and checked out Edinburgh Castle. Turns out there is more up there than any of us thought there was so it was actually quite fun. Very cold and windy though, think that has something to do with it being on a hill and all. There were a few different museums, a big as war memorial (gets called big as cos it was in its own building), a great hall thing, many gift shops, a few diff cannons, replica rooms of now dead royal people and the Scottish Crown Jewels. Have no photos of those cos not allowed but they would look incredible on me, just saying hehe, so now all I gots to do is find me a Scottish prince or king or something :) 

Anyhow here is some pics :) 

Some of the views from the castle

Missie keeping warm

Turns out Missie likes big guns :)

The 1 o'clock gun, which don't fire on a Sunday it turns out :(

Missie made some friends...

Then she got us put in jail

Luckily we got out, phew, then found the Great Hall

Missie then found a gun she didn't wanna mess with...

And we also found a cemetery 

And just if you was wondering here is proof Salome was there and I got outta jail :)

Pendeford and Wolverhampton

Our team at work is split over two sites, one in Edinburgh (where I am in case you'd forgotten) and the other in Pendeford which is near Wolverhampton. As we are one team sometimes a few of them come up to see us for a couple days and sometimes a few of us go down to see them. Obviously you still work while you're in the other office (sadly lol) and last week I got to go down there for a couple days :) it's a long way though (3.5 hours by train) for just one night but was still fun. Missie came with me cos she reckoned I was just trying to get out of taking her somewhere when I said it was for work, she now agrees that my work is real boring. She did however comment that work gives us much nicer accomodation than I've ever forked out for. Not sure this is a good thing as she now knows what a real nice hotel is like, hope she don't start expecting it all the time. 

We stayed in Wolverhampton which is the city close to Pendeford and went to a real nice Italian place (Bella) for dinner, I had amazingly yum spag bol and then we went round the corner to a pub (on Gary's recommendation) as it has a tree in the men's toilets that we all apparently had to see. It's pretty random actually, the toilet is outside and there is a tree it has been built around. I did learn that I have completely different standards to Ashley and Jackie (Scott was also there if you was wondering how many of us there was, us 4 went down and Gary was already down there but came back up with us), as they thought the pub and esp the toilet was scummy (they didn't use that word tho) and I thought it was just like a normal lil pub. Apparently I'm giving them all a diff idea of NZ to what they thought cos they had all just seen the nice as scenery pics and fancy places to stay and thought the whole place was like that, lol silly ppl. 

On the Thursday (we went down on the Wednesday back on the Thursday) Jackie and I explored around work at lunch, there wasn't much there as it is in a business park so basically just that one building. We did find some nice trees and a lake thing though. Oh and there is the most random statue outside the entrance which still cracks me up when I think about it lol. The train ride home was long as we had been at work since 8.30ish that morning and weren't getting into Edinburgh till 8.15 that evening, but we passed the time with food and drink and chat :) 

Chilling at hotel 

The tree in the men's toilet 

The random as statue outside work 

Other random stuff around the building 

Someone is ready for the long trip home...