Reminiscing Summer : Adventures with Red Baron

Hey lovelies!

If today was anything to go by... Summer is well and truly over! In order to try and hold onto Summer just that teeny tiny bit longer.. here is a look back at a sunny weekend afternoon spent out biking with the mister and our friend Loz...

Our intention was to cycle around the Waters of Leith into Dean Village, but as there had been severe flooding, a lot of the walking/cycle path had roadworks and diversions which got us all a bit turned around and a little bit lost!

We found ourselves close to Cuckoo Bakery, so decided to stop in for some lunch..

My yummy croissant

So.Many.Cupcakes!

Loz had to dash off, so the mister and I decided to take some cupcakes to go... 

Looking up Dundas Steet to  Scott Monument

...and enjoy them in the glorious sunshine in Inverleith Park!

Olympic & Fringe Cupcakes! :)

Although I'd often been to the Botanic Gardens just across the road from this park, I'd never actually been inside the gates of Inverleith Park...

The park is much bigger than I anticipated... and offers FANtastic views of Edinburgh Castle!

Is Summer still around where you are??

Do you feel you made the most of the good weather??

Were there any fun adventures??

Or are you just heading into Summer??

What are you looking forward to??

Filling in some Birthday Blanks on a Saturday...

It was Lauren's birthday this week, so her blanks are birthday themed!

1.   My most favorite birthday was       I think my 11th or 12th? I got to celebrate twice because I flew to LA and thanks to the international date line it was still my birthday! Two whole days of official birthday!! My uncle also took us all to an awesome steak house to celebrate.. it was nomminess!!   .

2.  My worst birthday was    maybe my 12th or 13th? my parents and I all forgot until about 11pm and I was like... hey... it was my birthday today! (I was on Summer vacay and totally spaced what the date was)... I got to celebrate the next day, so I wasn't too traumatised or anything...   .

3.  My favorite birthday memory is     getting kicked out of my own 21st.. HAHAHA.. not my proudest moment, but boy did I have a great party up until that point!!  .

4.  The best birthday present I've ever received was   a mini Mercedes with pedals and a little electric motor when I was in kindergarten... I used to love driving that thing around the house and in our backyard.. it was AWESOME POSSUMS!! .

5.  The  best birthday present I've ever given was      I have no idea! I tend to give fairly random birthday presents... I did send a vegetarian gummy candy in the form of bacon strips and a t bone steak once... she ate it all up and loved it!! :D I think I sent her some tape with bacon on it as well... I'm sure she put it to good use!! haha... (yup.. I'm that friend...)  .

6.  Birthdays are       best when they last the whole month!! Like mine did this year.. hehehe... thanks to the mister for spoiling me for my b'day month!!   .

7.  My favorite age so far has been       the age I was last year.. I had so many awesome adventures... ripping around the desert and beaches of Oman, Las Fallas in Valencia, Madrid, Alicante, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, an amazing Summer at two weddings in BC, Canada and 4 glorious weeks of cottage life with boats, wakeboards, sea-doos, atv's and jeeps in Muskoka, Ontario.. Thanks to all the lovelies who made it all possible!!   . 

Well, I need to get off my behind and get ready to head downtown for the Dragon Boat Festival!! Happy Weekend!!!

Head on over to Lauren's to say Happy Birthday or to join in the blanks fun!

Filling in some blanks about Summer...

If you are a return visitor from last week, you'll be glad to know I had my bacon & egg roll this morning and am thus in a FAR better mood than last Friday... our printer is still not fixed, but we've managed to divert the printing to the other printer (there was a programme that was set to only print to the now broken printer).. and as half the office are on holiday.. things have been relatively quiet! hoorah!! I am also leaving work early today to go catch a train to head to Londontown!! Yipee!!

1.   My plans this summer include       Laura & JB's wedding, roadtrip across the States, KV & JH's wedding, roadtrip around BC & AB.. just general Canada/North America shenanigans!!  .

2.  The best summer I ever had was    erm.. last summer was pretty amazing! Momo's wedding, Wil & Kos' wedding.. weeks at the Great Lakes - boating, ski-doo'ing & ATV'ing, cottage time with some amazing girlies.. getting to see my Canadian peeps.. made my heart sing!  .

3.  Summer is     BBQ's, jandals (flipflops), barefeet, lazy days and time on the water...  .

4.  My favorite summer food is   fruit! fresh fruit bursting with flavour and juice dribbling down your chin.. YUMMM!! watermelon.. pineapple.. mmmmmmmm...  .

5.  The best way to quench a summer thirst is with     a ceasar! or an ice cold beer.. mmmm... only 2 more weeks until ceasar time!! cannnnnot wait!! non alcoholic wise... WATER!  .

6.  My summer uniform consists of       skirts & tank tops or dresses.. or skirts that are also dresses!! I like shorts but I find it hard to find shorts that I like, so I just end up wearing skirts & dresses.. and jandals.. love my jandals!!   .

7.  The best thing about summer is       long days & late nights.. time spent outside with friends & time out on the water.. LOVE!  . 

Happy Friday!! 

As always, head along to Lauren's if you want to join~

ps. for some reason my chrome seems to think I'm in Japan and now all my little blogger headings come up in Japanese.... does anyone know how I change this??!!