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By Little Mummy, October 5, 2008 5:57 am

The title of this post should have read Loudon Castle. Let me start at the beginning…

Once upon a time there was a sunny day, in Scotland this is a rare occurrence. Mummy Bear, Daddy Bear and Baby Bear decided it would be nice to take advantage of the fine weather and jumped in the car and headed for Loudon Castle for a day of fun and frolics. Baby Bear was potty training and it wasn’t long before the call of nature, well, called. It called a lot during the (supposedly) one hour journey, in fact it was nearly into double figures! Mummy Bear and Daddy Bear remained patient and tried to support Baby bear as much as possible, unfortunately the road they were driving on (the A71) was also causing delays. There were a lot of temporary traffic lights, which made Daddy Bear angry. Eventually Mummy Bear and Daddy Bear got wise to the double stopping and combined toilet breaks with temporary traffic lights, much to the amusement of two old ladies at the bus stop. Mummy Bear and Daddy Bear were a little embarassed but decided that all Mummy Bears and Daddy Bears must allow Baby bears to relieve themselves at the side of the road when they are potty training (?).

The journey stretched on for almost two hours, and so did the toilet breaks and temporary traffic lights…

[much later]

Finally Mummy Bear spotted the sign (Daddy bear wears glasses and didn’t see the sign, it’s just as well Mummy bear was there!). Mummy Bear was worried when she read the sign ‘Open Every Weekend in September’, and was on the verge of saying some very naughty words when Daddy Bear pulled up outside the CLOSED gates and began to laugh hysterically, Mummy Bear didn’t think this was very funny at all…

[5 minutes later]

Mummy bear and Daddy bear decided to try and save the day and took a 45 minute detour and headed for Glasgow Science Centre, home of Nina and the Neurons. Mummy bear was happy that the entry fee was less than 16 gold pieces (please don’t turn up with gold pieces, this is for the benefit of the story, the actual price is £7.95 per adult, kids under three are free, thank you)for the whole family. By this time (12.30pm!! we left the house at 10am!!)Mummy bear was very hungry so they all headed for the cafe. Mummy bear, expecting to be ripped off, rummaged around for more gold coins…Daddy bear ordered the lunch. Daddy bear chose baked potato with meatballs, Mummy bear had baked potato and chicken curry, and Baby bear had a packed lunch. Mummy bear was astonished to find that the lunch only cost 11 gold pieces, this made Mummy bear very very happy.

After lunch they all went to explore the Science Centre, Mummy Bear, Daddy Bear and Baby Bear enjoyed the experiments and exhibits and said they would like to return one day, when Baby Bear was a bit older (and not potty training, so that then they might actually spend longer than two and a half minutes away from the toilets).

Mummy Bear and Baby Bear fell asleep in the car on the way home. It had been a very very long day. Daddy Bear took them both home and they all lived happilyish ever after.

The End

Photo by flickr user raymccrae