I was GLAD when the boys finally came back, as staying alone in that big hotel with the stairs that were forever creaking and the whole place except where I was in total darkness, I was feeling just a wee bitty scared! I had the dogs with me, and would have been a wreck if they were not there to keep me company.
So most of the night I sat in the pub, drinking coffee, and looking at the cars and people passing by.
As Jacquee had a few days without guests, Liz and self decided to go to Craig Tara, a sort of pleasure park for a few days.
So of course it was again me with poor Benny standing pawing the back of my seat, panting and blowing that killer breath straight up my nose. But luckily it was mid summer, and I was quite okay with the window open. Usually in October when we went on holiday, it was cold and rainy, and I had to don just about all the clothes I possessed, with my raincoat on top, to keep from freezing.
We had a lovely caravan home with two bedrooms, and for that I was glad, as when we had a twin room, Benny insisted to come and sleep with me under my blanket, his head next to mine! With that breath of him it was like sleeping in a sewerage pipe!
There was a huge warm swimming pool, and as it was not school holidays yet, we had only a few fellow bathers, and could really go bonkers. And we did! We were quite out of our skins, as this was a small bonus for this time of the year.
But to me the swans was just the hilite of this holiday.
It was not far to walk down to the beach, and as Liz of course never arose from her bed before at the earliest ten, I walked down to see what it was like at the seaside, and had the thrill of a lifetime!
I saw this small dots quite far out on the water, and squinted into the rising sun to see what it was, as it looked as if the dots were coming closer to the beach. As it came closer, I realized that it was either ducks or swans, and because the dots looked to big for ducks, I decided that it must be swans. And it was! As they neared the beach I was so thrilled that I just danced around like someone gone completely crazy, as I never in my life dreamed that I would be alone on a beach in Scotland, and around fifty swans would come gliding across the water towards me! As they started getting out of the water I could just stare, as they were really huge. A big male came out first, and he came straight at me, I suppose to inspect if it was safe for his flock to come ashore. The one photo that I so wanted to put on this block, one of the swan standing close to me and looking me up and down, hissing and rolling its neck from side to side, I had apparently lost. Pity!
After the big male had inspected me for quite some time, he turned and made some noises, and the others followed him out of the water! It was the most amazing experience I ever had!