Our trip so far

We finally got organized and made it to the airport on Sunday. We checked our bags and realized we had somehow overpacked and were a little overweight...11kilos @ $10 per kilo...ouch! We'll try to pack lighter on the way back, and we will also be able to disperse our stuff between the family, my dad only has one small bag, so we'll give him all the heavy stuff. I was amazed at what they've done at the vancouver airport since the last time I was there. They must have got lots of money from the improvement fees cause they sure spent a lot of money. It looks really good, there was a river running through the waiting area with a massive fish tank at the end.
The flight was good, and more importantly Oliver was good...thanks to baby einstein videos(thanks to mom sawatsky for lending her portable dvd) they work like a charm. He slept for the last 4 hours of the flight. It actually went quite fast.
I made the mistake of letting him nap when we got back to Sandra and Alec's house because that night I put him to bed at 7pm and I went to bed around 9:45, and then he woke up at 11pm wide awake. I thought he'd be up maybe an hour or two and go back to bed but no...he stayed up to 5:30am despite my best attempts to get him to go back to sleep. So I had about 5 hours of sleep in 2 days. I woke him up again after 3 1/2 hours and kept him up all day. He did amazingly well with only 7 hours sleep in 2 days. The next night he slept all night from 9:30 to 10am.
Dave has rented a car and taken off up north to see what he can see in the next 4 days before we fly to Ireland.
Yesterday Alec took us on a really nice drive through the Scottish countryside. We stopped for a quick hike up one of the hills with the sheep and the view was amazing!
I think I have a weird obsession with the old buildings here. I like all the old doors and chimneys! I don't know if it's because I used to watch Mary Poppins when I was little? There is so many good photo ops here! We've had great weather since we got here, unfortunaly I am cameraless for the next couple days because I made Dave take it so I could see where he went. So today we went to the art gallery in Glasgow and I couldn't take any pictures. Hopefully we will get to go back.
My mom called today and was saying that Julie arrived in London and everything was good. She said Natalie wouldn't get in the car when they got there because the car was "backwards" because the steering wheel was on the wrong side of the car...Haha...poor girl in such a strange place! After they explained that all the cars here are like that she got in.
A few more days here and then we fly to Ireland on Saturday. I'm hoping Dave will make if back in time from his adventure!