Race car driving, zip slides, cake decorating, birds of prey.

Sadly I'm not enjoying a week off like many are with the school holidays.

Instead, I'm having fun on the campaign trail for the Scottish Parliament elections.

This week had a wealth of action-packed photocalls - from Willie Rennie swinging through the trees at Go Ape (and then getting closer to nature at a falconry centre), Nicola Sturgeon cooking with gas at a Leith Bakery and Ruth Davidson living life in the fast lane at Knockhill.

I know many at home will maybe watch the news and have the thought: "Oh God, what are they up to now?"

Some may even think that the candidates are concentrating on having too much fun rather than going full steam ahead into the campaign and getting their message to the voters.

But, as someone immersed in the non-stop campaign treadmill, it's at least making things interesting.

It shows the politicians as human beings and, for better or worse, grabs your attention.

What's more interesting - Willie Rennie in a street talking to people or Willie Rennie whizzing down above the trees, arms and legs flailing all over the place?

Yes, it's the second. And once you've seen that, you're engaged and then you listen to what they have to say. In theory.

And if a picture paints a thousand words, just imagine the value in action, in moving pictures.

We're in the pre-manifesto, not-quite-halfway-there, period of the campaign.

Why not let them have some fun? They - and we - have four more weeks of this to go.

Nicola Sturgeon took a trip up to Shetland and Orkney at the start of the week but it wasn't far enough to distance herself from questions about an agreement the Scottish Government made with Chinese firms before parliament broke up for the election. While the First Minister had only signed a memorandum of understanding - meaning no firm deals are in place - questions were raised over the transparency of the deal and the judgement in being involved with these firms.

Kezia Dugdale has had quite a week of headlines, beginning with the weekend when she said in an interview that it wasn't "inconceivable" that she could vote in favour of independence if the UK backed Brexit. This played into the hands of both the SNP and the Tories. Fast forward a few days and then there's a leak about a young Dugdale applying to the SNP for work experience while at university. But rather than damaging the Scottish Labour leader - which was possibly the intention of the source - it saw the Lib Dems coming out to defend Dugdale against what they saw as a "breach of data protection" and pressure mounting on the SNP about where the information had come from. Not the best position for them to be in after the Frenchgate episode of the 2015 general election.

Ruth Davidson has been covering all corners of the country - from racing at Knockhill to a butcher shop in Aberdeenshire and a spot of sweet-making in Edinburgh for good measure. But while she's been having fun, pressure has been mounting on the Prime Minister following the disclosure of the Panama Papers and details of investments he benefited from. It'll be a long campaign for her in Scotland if she has to continue to defend the decisions made by the UK Conservative government and the actions of those who lead it.

In between swinging through trees and having an African fish eagle swooping down on him, Willie Rennie has been Kezia's knight in shining armour by calling on the Information Commissioner to investigate the application leak. And it will be 100% about #justice4kez and nothing to do with redressing the previous experience the party had on being on the other side of a memo leak.

Analysis by Alison McCallum, STV's assistant producer at Holyrood. You can contact her at alison.mccallum@stv.tv.