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Everyone seems to have been telling us to go to New Lanark recently, so we picked up Dad and Grandma and headed along for a day out.

New Lanark is a village that was created as a social experiment in 1786, where people could live and work at the cotton mill.

Today, the mill is open as a strange and quirky visitor attraction with old-fashioned mannequins, a very slow theme-park style ride and a movie with holograms from the future.

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The roof garden was my favourite part of the tour, with carved wooden animals hidden everywhere and a gorgeous view of the water.

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We stocked up on old fashioned sweets from the candy shop and pressed a couple of pennies before heading back into Edinburgh.

I'd given Grandma a voucher for bowling and pizza, so we went for a game in the evening.

We went for dinner at the Vietnam House afterwards where we mixed things up a little and I ordered Tom's favourite dish of fish cake pho and he ordered prawn spring rolls, which you roll yourself at the table.

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At the end of our meal, Jodie gave us a super sweet little envelope wishing us a happy anniversary with a voucher inside. It really is the best restaurant in the whole of Edinburgh!