It’s been a good one 🙂
We’ve been to Drusillas with Ros and co today and had a lovely time. Tried to text Joyce but no signal on mobiles 🙁
We pulled up in the car park and having parked about four miles away from the entrance in the furthest field we debated turning round and going away again as the weather was lovely and everyone in Sussex had clearly had the same idea of making the most of the last week of the summer holidays by going to Drusillas so the place was heaving. We ventured in and positioned ourselves by the pool before it got too busy there.
On the way through Tarly drew my attention to a dinosaur (a pretend one obviously!) ‘look Mummy, a dinosaur’ I asked her which one not for one moment expecting an answer but got one anyway ‘a triceratops Mummy!’. Blimey!!!! That’s her early years Ed put on the back burner again for a while, no issues there then 🙂
Kids changed into swimming gear, Ros stripped down to bikini top and I sat wondering why I’d worn quite so many clothes on such a nice day. The kids had a whale of a time with Davies particularly enjoying getting right in the middle of it all and splashing anyone who came near him, while Tarly was happily holding hands with anyone who came near with a similar aged child to her (floozy!).
Then we adjourned to the cafe for chips and caffine. Then a further hour or two sat in the sun in the playground listening to all the annoucements for lost children going out and trying hard to watch all five of our own most of the time. Tarly walked into the path of the zip wire and got knocked down, Pea brought Davies back once having found him about to tell someone he was lost, but that aside they had a great time!
After ice cream we suddenly realised it was 4pm and probably a good plan to get going so we said our lengthy goodbyes (well it will be at least two and a half weeks – no cheap travelinns in Exeter for Friday night 🙁 so that’s not a plan after all) and headed our seperate ways. Within a couple of miles we had hit serious traffic so singing very loud songs to keep everyone awake we did a country lanes detour and managed to avoid the worst of what looked to be a very long traffic jam caused by an accident and closing the road both ways – it did make our journey a good half hour longer than it should have been though so I was very proud of Davies and I for keeping Tarly awake all the way home.
Ady had beaten us home and got the kids a bath run and some tea cooking so they had them (and in that order – they were filthy!) and then they watched Pippi Longstocking cartoons while I ordered a new laptop battery online and Ady did some work stuff.
Just finished watching Lost and about to post a few pics up from the weekend and then off to bed. A good day 🙂
HUH?
what’s wrong with us as a cheap travelinn?
Comment by Sarah — 31 August 2005 @ 11:15 pm
aside from you already having Ros with you nothing 😉
Comment by Nic — 31 August 2005 @ 11:17 pm
Thanks for a good day 🙂
Comment by Roslyn — 01 September 2005 @ 8:19 am