Day 64/365

Well...where do I start...haha. The students from Church decided to head to Balmedie beach for a BBQ on Saturday afternoon, and I had high hopes of getting lots of beautiful photos of everyone, enjoying the sunshine and yummy food...well, that didn't quite happen. Ha. There was a family in our usual spot, shielded from the wind behind the dunes, so we set up camp round the corner...big mistake! Even with my retro wind break stumped in to the sand! Everyone got stuck in to a game of frisbee soon after we arrived, but I was super hungry so decided to get the BBQ's fired up. Once the coals had turned white, we threw on some sausages and burgers...and within a minute, they were all coated in sand. Bleugh. It was hilariously awful. But we all powered through, and eventually attempted to eat the cremated, sand coated, meat, whilst wrapped up in blankets/coats/hoodies/scarves, before giving up and throwing a lot of it away for the seagulls.

So that's the first half...a group headed off to do some dune jumping, whilst a few hung back to deal with the remains of the BBQ, and play 'kick the football back and forth with your bare foot' and 'see how far you can hit the tennis ball with the cricket bat' (great games!). On our way over to the dune jumping group I looked and couldn't see Matthew in the group, then all of a sudden he appeared behind me, stating calmly that he'd stood on some glass and cut his foot open. Yaaaay! Gotta love it when people throw their glass bottles away after some fun on the beach! I'm just glad he didn't land on it after jumping from 15ft up! We headed over to our 'camp' and Gordie appeared, to save the day, with his first aid kit, so we got Matthew plastered up, but the wound was so bad that the plaster didn't do much! So, it was time to tidy up and head back to the cars, and get Matthew to A+E to get checked out and make sure there wasn't any glass stuck in his foot.

Thankfully we only had to wait just over an hour to be seen, and after some poking around with a pair of tweezers (which Matthew handled with great manliness), the doctor didn't find any glass in the wound. He then gave Matthew a local anaesthetic (which Matthew handled with great manliness...) before giving him a few stitches, which I found fascinating!

After 5 days of limping about the place, I'm pleased to say that Matthew has recovered well and has now had his stitches removed. Ha.