It was our school street party on Thursday for the Royal Wedding. We made our very own sausages too, with a sausage machine and eveything. I made a fantastic crown to wear during the event with lovely embossed union jacks. It was quite understated compared to some I suppose, but i'd like to think it was far more stylish. The party itself was really good and we all went down the junior playground to have it together.
Once Ned was finished partying it was time for something new for us all, including the cat. She was off to the cattery while we were going to Cornwall for the weekend. Well, I say Cattery, we've christened it the 'Cat Hotel'
Before we went I thought it only fair we had some quality time together:
We loaded her into her box and into the car and set off. Of course she pulled her normal stunt of having a poo almost straight away which lovely in the car.
At least Dad finally let us have the windows open. The Cat Hotel was brilliant as there were lovely cats everywhere! Even a wild-ish one that had no ears.
We followed the lady in and helped Poppy settle in to her accomodation.
It looked really cool, she had her own window and a bunk bed all to herself.
We said our goodbyes but she wasn't bothered at all and made herself at home.
Then it was a quick trip to get the car loaded up before we picked up Mum from work, then Andy from home and then we hit the road for Cornwall.
It's been ages since we last went (August last year in fact) so I reckon we were well overdue. A great development in terms of the trip down is that Exeter services now boasts a branch of the Pasty shop we love in town. Much better than skanky Burger King.
We stayed awake for pretty much the entire journey, and perked up when we arrived at the caravan to find Alan and Hayley were already there.
But it was late and it was soon time for bed.
We got up the next morning to find everyone watching the Royal Wedding build up on telly.
Dad's stupid comments about it were already making mum weary so we took him off down to Gary's shop.
Have we mentioned how much we love Gary and his well stocked shop?
After breakfast the Wedding was still pretty underwhelming so we went down the beach with Dad and Andy instead. We had a great time, I used my new Hello Kitty surfboard.
And I was so excited about getting my skim board back out I couldn't wait to get on it again. I'm starting to really get the hang of it now and pulled off a few decent rides (as well as a few decent crashes).
After we'd exhausted our various surfcraft it was time for digging, we love digging.
Blocking the pools and streams at low tide. Brilliant stuff and we had the place pretty much to ourselves.
We headed to the Youth Hostel Cafe for lunch with Mum, Alan and Hayley when they'd had their fill of wedding on telly. Then it was time to check into our cottage as the caravan was a one night only special offer.
We were staying at the end of the road in a big cottage called Ben's Stable. There was a lovely big kitchen for Dad, a lovely big front room for Mum and a cool room with a lovely window and bunk bed for us.
The bunk beds caused a little bit of friction when we had to flip a coin for top bunk allocation.
Kimi and Marney also turned up and had the cottage just up from ours so there was plenty of cross-cottage hide and seek action to be had. Great fun!
We headed out to the Harlyn Inn for tea and met up with Owen and Hanna who were staying there. Needless to say there were massive ice cream sundaes..........
.....and novelty alien ice creams for pudding.
Saturday morning we hit the beach again, this time mob handed for digging duties:
Abi and Faye were also around too, so it was quite a gathering in the end.
Especially when John and Sarah arrived too. Too much excitement or what!
We eventually headed back to the cottage and settled down for some top quality early evening telly with plenty of trips to the cottage playground we had:
Sunday we took Mum to Polzeath, we even enjoyed a family shopping trip for the first time ever:
It was a good shopping trip too, I got a new pair of swimmers and matching t-shirt with dragons on them...very cool.
And I got a new pair of pink Crocs....with a ladybird badge through one of the holes! I was so pleased as you can imagine.
Then it was time for ice creams on the beach:
We went back to the cottage and got our gear together to have an evening surf session.
I was really on form and got a a couple of brilliant waves right up onto the beach and went out pretty deep with Mum and Sarah.
I had a good old splash about, jumping over the waves as they came crashing in.
John arrived a bit later on and we headed up to the sand dunes with Andy and Sarah in tow to jump in a massive sandy hole. We came back covered in sand and had to go back in the sea to get it all off again.
It was BBQ night, so that meant another cool game of hide and seek for us kids.
Once it was dark they grown ups decided to launch one of Mum's lanterns:
Not the best idea in what was quite a strong wind, epseially after Alan had read the instructions....
Still, once it was alight it was hard to put out snd it soon took to the sky, albeit it mostly sidewards before realy lifting off and floating out over the sea.
It would have been realy cool if I wasn't totally terrified of the thing (mostly due to Alan's reading of the instructions while him and Dad embellished the likely nasty injuries we may sustain by lighting it) Still, there's only another four more to light over the summer....
We had a trip out to Bedruthan steps on Monday. The steps had certainly not got any less over the winter and it was a long way down.
We did some rockpool trawling and the locals well and truly showed us how it was done with Amy netting two fish straight away, one of which was pretty sizeable.
Alan and I got stuck into a sizeable civil engineering project:
I got my wetsuit on and made it four days straight in the water:
It was lovely, except when it was really windy and we got sandblasted:
We said our goodbyes to John and Sarah and headed back to the Youth Hostel cafe for a cream tea:
And then it was packing and home time...boooo!
Yeah, very sleepy we were too this morning for school and nursery....yawn!!!!
I had swimming lessons today as well.
While I went with Dad to pick Poppy up from the cat hotel. She had enjoyed her stay by all accounts and had been a very good girl. Until she got in the car and had a poo of course.........
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