Scottish section Run to Ballater 1st August

[Ripley]

A very enjoyable day with the weather being better than forecast. Robbie made his first real Drive out after being off the road since April. It was a first meet and drive for thosb10(Tom) with passenger Lauren and splatadoo(Andy) and passenger Dave.

here we are on our way to our first stop at Glenshee





A quick stop at Glenshee



Arrived at Ballater for lunch



Ellis's nice shiny black '2' heads the bunch



Here we are at the Lecht with our head literally in the clouds



A quick stop for coffee in Aviemore



Andy and Dave, don't think we've seen the last of them!!



Told you, here they come



Bob and Lauren putting 'Robbie' through his paces





We arrived back at Perth to say our farewells



It was great to meet members old and new and we thoroughly enjoyed our day. A great effort from splatadoo for coming from Aberdeenshire to Perth, then doing the run, arriving back at Perth to go all the way back to Aberdeenshire, and to thosb10 for coming from Strathaven to join the fun. Hope you guys enjoyed your day as much as we did

[ScubaEllis]

Great pics Ann and it was great to catch up with you all, even tho it wasn't for the whole run

[thosb10]

Hi all I had a good day as it was the first time on a run and the first time I have put Katie through her paces (and I enjoyed every minute) It was a pleasure to meet names that I had only read on this site

Tom

[splatadoo]

Thanks a lot for today guys, it was a really enjoyable day with welcoming friendly people and a nice mix of banter thrown in there! I will definately be back for some more of the monthly meets and will probably see you all at Ellis's garage sometime soon (when i manage to get off the shift work!)

I finally finnished Dave off with a bowl of chilli when we got back to my place...
"dude i'm stuffed"

For some reason all of the photos dave took wouldnt upload to photo bucket but here are some of the pics that i managed to upload...






















thanks again folks.

Edited to show first page of pics from the drive

[the hitman]

totally gutted i missed it

i actually sold my car today at same place you met in perth lol
so im 2less till i get my new tubby


next one for sure

[Ripley]

Cracking photos there Andy. Cant believe the third one down, looks like Robbie has bikes on the roof Oh, now I remember it was that Audi estate that wouldn't let anyone past!!

Glad you got Dave home safely and fed............again Guess Lee has a rival when it comes to big appetites!

Look forward to meeting you guys again soon

[splatadoo]

ok edited the first post so i could get all pics up, but for the first time i went 4000 characters over te limit for a post lol so could only get half of them in there, here are the rest. enjoy

[preston]

Sorry i had to miss this one guy's did have a shift swap arranged but he had to pull out.
good to see Robbie out on the road again Ann,hope we can arrange a nice run for sept
comming of a night shift but i'll be there. some nice pics do like the mr2 bike rack
see u guy's soon.

[Ripley]

Sorry i had to miss this one guy's did have a shift swap arranged but he had to pull out.
good to see Robbie out on the road again Ann,hope we can arrange a nice run for sept
comming of a night shift but i'll be there. some nice pics do like the mr2 bike rack
see u guy's soon.

Really missed you guys, bad news on the shift swap. I had to keep Lee and Ellis in check all by myself but they were well behaved because we had new members

Was a good meet and will definately get something sorted for September

[manta5]

now now ann,thats how rumurs start
great drive guys,good to see ye all.

ann,any marks on the paper