I went away on tour with the rugby and hockey sides this week.

We had to leave Ardvreck at about 6:00 am, and caught a bus to edinburgh airport for a flight down to Bristol (British geography anyone?).

We arrived in Bristol, and went for a tour around Millfield prep and senior school. They were amazing! Millfield is pretty much the premier sporting school in England, so it had the most amazing sporting facilities i’ve ever seen! The prep (primary) school has six squash courts! There Continue reading this post…

I’VE POSTED THIS ONE AGAIN. THE VIDEO WASN’T WORKING BEFORE, BUT SHOULD BE FINE NOW! IF NOT, GO TO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_2K_U8MmgM 

One night after skiing, we went down to the local supermarket and bought these little plastic clams. They’re these small plastic trays that little germans slide down the hill on. So, naturally, we bought some! We didn’t know what the heck they were called, but somewhere on the barcode it said something like ‘kinderbob’. So, kinderbobs they were.We set off to the nearest ski slope, ran up it and flew back down at a million miles an hour! We may or may not have been to a bar before hand.

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Two weeks ago, there was a seven-a-side hockey tournament for the under 13 boys (my team). We took them away, and they ended up winning! So now, they will be travelling to Somerset to compete at the national tournament! So I get a free trip away to England! Woo hoo!

Even better, there is also a seven-a-side rugby tournament for the rugby boys two days before the hockey (which I am also down to go for) in England, so both teams are travellling together and we will go from one tournament to the other. An even longer, free trip away to England for me!

Rugby A v Ireland A

I was given the opportunity to go to a Scotland A v Ireland A rugby match at McDermit Park last week. Free tickets were given out to the rugby coaches of certain schools, so that meant that I got to go!

We were in a hospitality suite – suit and tie required! Before the match, we had predrinks in the suite, and then a 3 course buffet dinner. We Continue reading this post…

A good friend of mine back in Australia, Jack Sinclair, is CYCLING ACROSS AUSTRALIA!
Perth to Surfers Paradise – 4 500 km in 30 days. And he’s only 15 yrs old!

Jack’s training extremely hard. He’ll have to cover between 100 and 200km every day for a whole month, in extreme heat (40+ degrees C) across the unforgiving Australian desert.

All to raise money for ‘Big Brothers Big Sisters’, a charity that provides mentoring to vulnerable young people. What a legend!
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At Ardvreck, the fire alarm went off! We all had to evacuate and the firefighters came to put out the fire!

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18! Woo Hoo! 🙂

Now you can finally know what alcoholic beverages taste like!

I told you I was going to give you a shout out!

On the ski slopes, there were bars everywhere. You just ski up to them, order a drink and enjoy the scenery.

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Sean had the maddest stack ever! On one of his attempts of the house jump, he had a pretty nice stack!

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Sick of the pics yet? Good. Here’s some more:

I thought this was funny…

On the last day, there was a fair amount of cloud cover which hovered just below the mountain peak. We managed to take this picture just before we were swallowed by smoke and clouds. Continue reading this post…