Family Fun!

So, a quick run down of the fun and games we got up to whilst in England these last three weeks, or at least the highlights.

The weather was so good that really every day was great. Allowing us to sit outside and enjoy the sun, go for walks (with or without my Mum's mental dog - who for the whole visit could not be persuaded to stop licking Molly's face. She coped fine, and after just one day she would see him coming towards her and put her hands over her face and giggle, cute as!), enjoy lots of barbecues and generally bum around in the sun... lovely!

A really fun day was with all the family again, my side and hubby's, including all of Molly's cousins and great grandparents. We went to Avon Valley Country Park, it's a huge rural park just outside of Bristol with a big adventure play centre, go-karting and petting zoo, so as you can imagine the girls were in their element (see cheesy family pic - it was all a bit much for Moomy, as you can see she's passed out in her stroller!).

Another sunny day was spent at Bath Park, a really cool playground in the centre of beautiful historic Bath (do I sound a tour guide?!). Molly enjoyed the swings, sliders and roundabout - especially because Daddy was making an idiot of himself for her - and also devoured an 99 ice cream, making one hell of a mess! Of course she couldn't rival the mess that Mummy made of herself, managing to sit squarely on top of a huge pile of duck s*#@, wearing cream pants, with no change of clothes or way of concealing what looked like a serious 'toilet malfunction' shall we say! Oh how we laughed, well, how everyone else laughed at my expense!!!

We went to Bristol Zoo as well. It's been a good few years since we went to the zoo (too many to even think about really... we're so old!), and it was soooo much better then I remember it, they've done lots of work to all the enclosures and the animals seem happy and lively - which makes a change eh?! And best of all Molly really enjoyed it, she's so interested in everything around her now, it's just lovely to watch her little face as she takes it all in.

We had a couple of really nice walks at Westonbirt Arboretum and Chew Valley Lake, and I'll be honest, I'd forgotten how beautiful our part of the UK is. This is before we'd ventured even further south to my family in Dorset, another stunning part of the country, coastal and very rural.

Speaking of which, we had a lovely afternoon in a country pub in Symondsbury, Dorset, with almost the entire extended family (on my Mum's side) turning up to meet Molly and enjoy the sun and cider. I was so pleased that they all made it, and it was so nice to get everyone together for something other then a funeral or some other church occassion. We met lots of new members of the family too, my cousins son - whom I've seen pictures of, but never met, he's such a sweetie - and new partners, and wives even, of my aunts and uncles.

I could post a million pictures of our outings and daytrips, but you know what it's like looking at other peoples holiday snaps, boring as hell right? we love them but I won't inflict them on you poor unsuspecting readers.

Crikey an awful lot changes in three years! Who knows what will be new by the time we next visit...