Trip to Inverness Day 1

I am breaking up our trip to Inverness into three different blog entries because we did so much in 3 days and there are so many pictures. So first of all my friend Amber told me that there are so many great things to see on the way to and from Inverness so Clifton and I decided to make this an awesome road trip. On Friday, we took off by 10AM and our first stop was Glenfiddich distillery in Dufftown. Clifton and I have been there before but we agreed it is a great distillery to see and it is a free tour with three drams of whiskey to taste at the end. I was a wonderful sister and aunt and volunteered to watch Lucy while Jamie, Zac and Clifton went through the tour since I had already done it. So Lucy and I had coffee, milk and a scone at the Coffee shop. I didn't think Lucy needed to go on a whiskey tour quite yet so we enjoyed coloring and eating our scones. After the tour I set up a picnic for us all to enjoy the beautiful day. Clifton thought I was a big dork by wanting to do this but we all ended up having a great lunch and afterwards he said I was right by wanting to have a picnic because it was a beautiful day. I just said "Hello I am always right." He is learning. But I will say he wouldn't let me bring my proper picnic basket because it was too big and I was so upset because I couldn't wait to use it, and it was packed and ready to go and he said no we have to put it in a different bag. Even without my proper picnic basket it was still a great picnic. Afterwards, we headed to a strawberry farm to pick strawberries and raspberries. You just got a little tin and headed out to the strawberry farms and picked away. It was great fun. Jamie was on a mission to find the biggest strawberries so she took off on her own and started running back towards us with two handfuls of huge strawberries. She was so proud of herself. Jamie and I were over picking strawberries and wanted to move on to picking blueberries which they didn't even have on this farm but in the process of looking for the blueberries we came across the best playground we have ever seen. It had adult size four wheel bikes, trampoline built into the ground, and a big slide. By the way, Lucy wasn't even with us when we started to play. We had so much fun and then Zac, Clifton and Lucy found us acting like children and Lucy and Clifton joined in. Zac got very serious about raspberry picking and took off to find the best ones. We had so much fun at this farm and then it started to rain so we decided to get to Inverness. On the way to Inverness the roads are very windy and can cause you to become very car sick. I have had issues with this before so I warned Jamie and Zac about it. Sure enough when we were in the city of Inverness and five minutes from our apartment Lucy lost her lunch all over the car and ruined all of the raspberries that Clifton and Zac spent so much time picking. Poor thing didn't have anything left in her stomach but within 10 minutes she was fine and ready to play. We decided since we had had such a big day that we would just hang out at the apartment that night and eat dinner so Clifton and I went and bought groceries and came back and prepared dinner. Our apartment was incredible. We had a massive balcony (bigger than the apartment) that overlooked the river Ness. Too bad it was ridiculously windy because we couldn't really enjoy it the first night. Our first day to our Inverness vacation was definitely a success and we were ready for the next day.