we rented a car so we could explore the highlands a little bit. dad drove. it was a manual transmission. it was slightly scary at times, but dad really was a rock star driver (as expected). i was the copilot. "claire to the curb" was our motto (in terms of remembering which side of the road to drive on). even on a one lane road (!) in the highlands, all went well.
today we drove from inverness along loch ness (no nessie sightings, unfortunately - just a beautiful lake with several pull outs so you could take photos like this one)...
...and ended up 30 miles later at glen affric. we did an 11 mile (!!) circular hike around loch affric, through some gorgeous country. we saw a snake, a caterpillar, a couple bees and birds, and 1,382,092,374 bugs. i have 3,421 little bites from these bugs. they annoyed me. and my feet hurt by the end. (quote of the day - becky: "that hike went on for an hour past fun.") overall, it was a beautiful way to spend our day - and really nice to get out of the cities/towns and into the wilderness. that's where we belong. i mean, seriously - are we on a movie set??
and we clearly have our christmas card photo already. family: pretend to be surprised when you receive this in the mail in early january, since that's definitely when our christmas cards go out every year.
(all photo credits to the rest of my family. i have decided three cameras is enough and i just order other people to take photos of things i'd like to remember. so far that's working out well.)
today is the national holiday better known as one-week-until-claire's-summer-is-over-and-she-has-to-go-back-to-work. sniff. but let's not think about that now...we're on to the isle of skye tomorrow!
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