2013: Week 22

Saturday 25 May

We drove to a lovely place called Scotland Farmhouse near Littleport, about an hour away, yesterday evening for a week's holiday with Jon's family. Today we went into Ely to have a look around and had lunch in a pub that was doing barbecue food and had activities for the kids in their outdoor area. It was a little windy, but Jess and Finn really enjoyed having their faces painted in particular. Daisy, of course, went nowhere near the face painting :).

Sunday 26 May

The weather was beautiful today; in fact, I realised I hadn't brought any sleeveless tops with me as I wasn't expecting the weather to be quite so nice, but I did throw in a pair of shorts at the last minute. We had a barbecue in the garden this afternoon and the kids loved climbing the tree, playing frisbee and eating their picnic together. This photo is really pixellated; I must have had the ISO setting way too high, but I was just glad to have a picture of the four of them all looking in the same direction...

Monday 27 May

Four of the people we're on holiday with have birthdays in May and June, so rather than try and find four separate dates we could all meet up to celebrate, we assigned each person with a birthday a day of our holiday week, and that person got to choose the activity we did and the food we ate. Today was Jon's Mum's turn and we went into Cambridge and hired a punt to take us along the river for an hour. I forgot to take my camera so this shot was just taken on my phone. We had a lovely time; Daisy even enjoyed herself once she got over having to wear a lifejacket, then we had a picnic in the park and David took us all to find a couple of geocaches. Mark and I had both signed up to Geocaching by the end of the day! Treasure hunting for the social networking age, what's not to like???

Tuesday 28 May

The weather took a turn for the worse again today, and reverted to Britain's usual fare, but even though it looked miserable, it didn't actually rain today and we still had great fun in the playground this afternoon.

Wednesday 29 May

Today was Katherine's 'birthday' and she opted to spend some quality time with her sewing machine. Brenda also brought hers, and anyone who wanted to could try something. I made a make-up bag and was very proud of it, and even Finn had a go :).

Thursday 30 May

If I thought Sunday's photo of all four kids looking at the camera was a good one, this one that Lou took is even better - not only are they all looking in the right direction, they're almost all smiling, too!

Friday 31 May

Jess and Daisy looked so cute with their binoculars this morning before we left. There was pretty much nothing to look at in the sky, but they still persevered for at least five minutes...