Summer Pics.

Summer 09

It seems as if the Summer has flown past. Shirley, Mark and Eric have been and gone, and we had a great time. The weekend in Center Parcs was wonderful. The weather was fantastic which helped. Shirley and I did very little except watch the boys be action men. No tree was left unclimbed, zipp wire unzipped or forest animal not shot full of arrows ( not real animals!!). The hardest past of the day was deciding where to eat. Our favourite place was the pancake house, particularly the day Shirley, Mark, Michael and I watched the boys sailing from the deck outside the restaurant.

Michael had his birthdays, I think it came to three in the end. the first was a bowling party in July, the second his real birthday here where we had fun watching the kids building marshmallow towers, and the third in Ireland. It did take us two attempts to bake the cake, I forgot the sugar the first time.

Ireland was fun too. We had a brilliant day out in Dublin with a tour on the Viking Splash, a WW2 amphibious vehicle which drove us around the sites with a very entertaining guide and a sail around the canal basin. The trip also involved shouting at and startling passersby. It was great craic. All the cousins got on like a house on fire. Yolanda handeled the influx like a true star. I think there were 19 of us in her house at one time.

We all had a great time. So with batteries recharged we will soldier on into the Autumn.