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Ben Nevis, 18th May 2013.

Here is a video and a few pictures from our walk up Ben Nevis that we did the other day. Made it up in 2,5 hours, and the whole walk took 5 hours in total. So proud of us for making it up an hour faster than the last walk up Ben Nevis, but also for helping to raise money for Accord Hospice in Paisley, outside Glasgow. We helped raising over £2000, thanks to everyone who donated! :)

We made it!

Just a wee picture and update to let you all know we are alive. :) on our way down now. Made it in 2,5 hours up!

Here we go!

Just about to start heading for my pick up round of all my hill walkers to head towards Fort William, and Ben Nevis.

It's been a change in the line up for the walk, and our friend Carys has decided not to come with us due to sore legs. I can just imagine doing a 5-6 hours walk up and down Britains highest mountain, when you aren't feeling 100% in the body. Not the bestest feeling.

Alan's friend Ross got the opportunity to come instead, so then we were four again! So much better being four rather than three walking, so you can walk in pairs.

Anyway, that's me set to start driving now! Hopefully I will be able to upload a picture or similar during the day. And if not, I will for definitely do it tonight!

 

Have a good Saturday everyone, I sure will!

Life is all about the ups and downs.

After feeling a bit up and down lately, I feel like I'm finally back on track again! Just like anyone else, I have my bad days and weeks, and I feel like I can't be bothered with the gym, eating good healthy food, and to be my normal happy self.

But I do think it's important to experience both highs and lows in life though. You won't know what it's like to be happy, if you haven't been sad, and the other way around. After rain comes sunshine, sometimes you just have to have patience.

However, I am now right back on track, and I'm well up for what June has got to offer! I have finally got my dates set to do my courses, within my PT course, that is Circuits, Kettlebells, Suspension training, Boxing,  Business and Functional Training. And I can't wait to get started!

Also, me and my hillwalking group will be climbing Ben Nevis in three days time from today! By this time on Saturday we will hopefully be down safe and sound from our walk, and hopefully beaten our last time of six hours up and down. We are still collecting money for a good cause on the charity page.

Me, during mine and mums walk up Ben A'an last month.

Summer of 2002.

I love living in the present, but every now and then I also love taking a trip down memory lane to remember how I felt at a specific time. I was cleaning through one of the drawers in the living room today, and found a diary I kept during the summer of 2002. I wrote in it every day during my holidays, kept track of how far we travelled, what we did,what we had for dinner, everything! I have always been quite specific about random things like that, and it's fun being able to look back on what then 14 years old Therese thought about life.

The holidays I had the summer of 2002 was great in such different ways. Me and my sister went on a road trip with our dad through Sweden, and over to Denmark. The thought was to head to a air plane show in Belgium, but our car broke down on day two of our holiday, so we decided to travel less, and enjoy Denmark and Sweden instead.

And later on that summer, me, my sister and our mum went over to an island between Sweden and Finland, called Åland where we went camping, swimming and sunbathing for a week. Such a simple and nice holiday, and I totally loved it! Åland used to be like a second home for me when I was younger, it's where I spent a lot of weekends growing up, as we used to have a caravan there each summer.

What did you do during your summers when you were younger?

My travel diary from July 2002.

To miss someone.

There are some days I can feel that I live away from my family, some days more than others. There will be occasions I miss, moments I should have been there, and days I would have needed my own family. Like the day my niece was born, or that day I got a phone call about that my grandpa had a heart attack. I couldn't be there physically for anyone in my family, and it breaks my heart thinking about it. Regardless if it's good or bad times, you still wish you could be there for everyone.

Yesterday was a tough day. Nicci, my dog back home, had to be put to sleep. It's weird, she's been around through half my life, always happy. For anyone who has had a dog, you probably know what I'm talking about. I didn't know until yesterday just how much this would affect me, and just how much I would feel.

Nicci was my little sister, and yesterday my little sister fell asleep.