Well CB is away to school with her award under her arm and a few pics that we printed off last night. Sorry to bore you all but i am one proud mammy and just want to share our day with you all.
Arrived at the Parliemnt building, not sure how as my directions werent listened to as the satnav was on but after going round in circles for the umpteenth time i wsa asked where the hell is it. So we gets there and there's no parking so CB and me jumped out the car and left my Mum and her partner to figure out where to park. We entered the building and had to go through securtiy, then i remembered what happened to the parliment on the 5th of november and thought yeah i don't mind being frisked on this occasion. We made our way past the visitors desk and straight to the MSP appointment desk. felt really nervous so golly knows what was going through CB's mind. We were directed to a waiting area full of peeps all dressed in fancy suits, The MSP's secretery cam edown and met us and took us back to securtiy to get the behind the scenes passes. Then it was off to the debating chambers. for Ministers question time. I'll be honest i did'nt have a scoob what was happening apart from alot of Msp's arguing, banging tables and shouting but it was really interesting watching them squirm to get out of answering questions head on. We were met after the question time by Margaret the secretery and took to the offices where CB was getting her award. Oh i should say that when we were waiting to be met my mum and side kick came into the visitors centre for a nose about and they were taken aside and asked if they would like to be taken upstairs after we left to see CB getting her award, so it was a nice surprise for cb and i to see them and a nice surprise for them too. The leader of the Labour Prty came down Iain Grey and took Brooke aside told her how proud he was of her and i started bubbling like a 2 year old. He gave a wee speech infront of a dozen or so staff members gave CB a huge hug and wished us all well. Cathie Cragie was brilliant, with her then excused herself as she had to go back for debating time. Margaret then took us round a tour of the buildings, we went into the presiding officers building and we were told the history of it. Yeah i know the Prlie is only 6 years old but they incorporated some Dukes house into it, cant remember the dukes name, told us how the room we were standing in was haunted, he had a son who was mad and one night they couldnt find the son, so they scoured the house and finally found him in the kitchen sitting infront of the fire with his servant on a scewer getting roasted above the open fire, so now the servant haunts the room. We cam eout of there and got told about various things like where the design for the floors beams etc came from, all very interesting facts but my mum turned round and said very bluntly. it is nice inside but it looks an eyesore outside and you can't justify to me the 400 million it cost to build, Mummsie is very straight to the point kinda girl. Then off to the debating chambers before the MSP's returned for round 2, CB got to sit in Alex Salmonds seat and we were told again about the materials used and how it all works, why there are 2 clocks and the amount of time each person is allowed to talk for etc. I knwo you are all getting bored by now, that's if youve got this far but it was very intre4sting. We left the chambers and went to another part of the building again getting told about various features where they came from why they were there, one of the things i really liked and i will have to google this is a sculptur eon a wall, over a hundered women were asked to right down a short sentence and the sculptor crafted marble in the womens hand writing, some of the sentences were hilarious one that stands out was "my my friend comes round for tea i don't know wheter to get the silver out or lock it away" We finished our tour and thanked Margeret for making the day wonderful. Gave CB some spends so she could go into the gift shop, we now have new decorations for the christmas tree a load of edinburger rock and keyrings. It really was a great day and i am full of information about wood, marble, granite and other features within the Scottish Parlie buildings.
CB had an abosoloutly fantabulous time and was overwhelmed by it all. I have never seen her stuck for words or as shy as she was but she was so well behaved and well spoken that i am so proud of her for what she done for me all those months ago that lead us to be there yesterday.