Heh

Well the high ropes course was fun but a bit nerve racking. Despite the safety ropes it is still disconcerting to have to jump into air to grap a swinging rope. Still I managed to do most of it, but after my hands started bleeding (I know, gloves would have been an idea) I cut it short. Stace did pretty well, she handled the first two stations and then the zip line at the end. I am afraid the few pics there are are on Stace's camera and I do not have them.





That said I do have a special one for you, I know this is a short post but I somehow feel that this pic makes it worth it :)

...camouflage :)

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Right, I deleted that crap post and will provide a real one here.

First off, the football match was excellent. It was really quite strange to watch in fact as something felt so unfamilar about it. I finally figured out what it was, commercialization. Seriously. There was no stoppage of play for an ad break to go out on telly, there was no person in a giant dog suit coaxing someone on to shoot the puck in the net for a new telephone. No mascot at all really, it was like I was being allowed for the first time to stay up late and watch an adult sport having only been allowed the kiddie ones up till now. Needless to say I am a firm football fan now.

Also, seeing a match live has been on my must do list for some time. Having tried a deep fried mars bar as well, the list is shrinking. And about a week after the match I crossed another one off, a pub quiz! After watching the rematch of Newc United and AZ (Which Newc lost, unlike the one we went to), Fisher and I stayed in the Lonny for their pub quiz. Now most teams had at least four people and were trying to be sober. We brought out the secret weapon, just two people, buzzed, one of whom did not grow up in the country and had no idea what half the question were referring to. BUT on the beer question (Closet answer wins 8 bottles) which was something like How high did sinead o'conners 3rd album with her first group reach on the charts (Or something) we won :) 52nd apparently and our 43rd guess got it for us. Fisher went up to the bar to get our brews, typical selection, Smirnoff Ices, Corona, Belgian wife beater (Stella). And after debating the letter of the law with the bar staff (8 bottles in the fridge, could be any bottles) he comes back with 8 pint size Bulmars, just about the nicest cider there is. All told, for our 2 pound buy in we got 23 quids worth of cider :)

Oh, and I had a colonic irrigation. Curiously that was not on the to do list. Cannot imagine why. Though I would reccomend it to everyone at least once a year, like a dentist's appointment (I lost five pounds my first time).

Right now I am currently at the Canyon Ranch Spa in Lennox Mass. It is quite nice here though my mother keeps referring to the Tuscon one as better. I have had loads of exercise and found I rather enjoy jogging. Also loads of treatments, including some quite interesting ones, like the Red Flower Hammam, where my body was wrapped in clay and I was basically baked. But the strangest was the Bindi-Shiradara, a 5000 year old Indian massage where at the end, warm oil is dribbled onto your forehead for ten minutes. I have a gentleman's body treatment tonight and tomorrow I end with a simple ayurvedic pedicure (Though there has been some pressure to get my toenails painted with the MaCleod Tartan, we shall see). We saw Alec Baldwin in the dining room the other night and my mother commented that the girl he was with was far too young for him :) I have got to go as I have to change for a high ropes challange (We have had snow the last couple of days).

Full of mistakes I know, meh,

I think I turned the comments back on for registered members, no more of this anonymous BS.

May not be an update for a couple of weeks, as I am flying alot in the next few days and have work to do.

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