Tuesday:
Gymnastics week, super crazy parking resulting in a park and ride situation.  We don't mind though.
Netball club was actually on again this week, we're still loving it.  I think it's the format that really works, a bit of technique training and then a proper game.
We also got assigned roles for our class play today, I was pleased to be named as King Menelaus, Helen of Troys husband.  It's obviously one of the top parts, Mum has warned me i'll have a few lines to learn if that is the case....

Wednesday:
We had an extended rounders session today...cool!  Even though we didn't have the best team.....boo!  Never mind, it certainly beats being in the classroom all day.
The weather had made a turn for the worse by tea time.
So instead of team Kennet, we decided to use up some manky old bananas to make a loaf.
We did indeed, I set about mashing the fruit to a pulp.
And I was dispensed to the local shop to buy some eggs.  On my scooter.  Can you guess how many eggs survived the journey home?  2.  Only 2 made the return leg of the trip intact.
There was quite an eggy mess starting to form on the floor as he stood there, soaked from the rain with his carrier bag dripping lightly scrambled egg.
I was devastated.  I couldn't believe i'd managed to break any, never mind 4 of them.  I was so careful too.  Well, I thought I was.  Everyone else seemed to think it was funny so that helped, and as Dad pointed out, we only needed two for the recipe anyway.
The cake/loaf itself proved to be delicious.
It did, it's my new favourite thing, warm from the oven it was so lovely.  Next day in my sandwich box was pretty spectacular too.

Thursday:
We had our class photo taken today, so I had to go to school looking especially smart and clean and tidy.  No makeup and no tattoos!
I found out that I had made the quad kids team for the proper competition.  I was really pleased to have this confirmed, even though I was reasonably confident i'd made the cut (there were only a few places available).
After school dance club had superhero's week.  We got into small groups and performed our own moves (I put my shorts on aver my tracky bottoms in a superman style).  It was great fun, we got loads of laughs too.

Friday:
I went to Mudeford on my school trip.  I'd already been tipped off that there wouldn't be any swimming or even paddling so I was prepared for the worst.  In spite of that we had an awesome day!  Even if I did have to partner Logan for the day....urgh!  Nevem mind though, we had a great day, didding in the sand, collecting seweed and shells (my bag smelled delightful when I got home), having our lunch and then topping it off with an ice cream and then got to sit upstairs on the coach.  Brilliant.
She was home in time for swimming worse luck.  On the upside, Edward was there and we played on the park instead.
Swimming went very well, I drew a lot of admiring glances for my snake eye goggles thats for sure.  Then afterwards I went and got changed all by myself.
After she'd gone off to bed I had a game of Catan with Mum and Dad, of course, I won!  I am the lord of Catan.  I am.  Really.

Saturday
Mum had some wafty meeting to go to for work or something.
We dropped her off and headed for 'Southampton Bike Park'  Turns out this was a rather grand description of what turned out to be a bit of a disappointment for us.
I fell off almost immeadiatley.
And I was struggling to get any flow, I don't think the fact that it had obvioulsy been raining pretty hard prior to our arrival helped much either. 
It wasn't a total disaster though, the nearby park was pretty good fun.
And Dad had packed a bit of a picnic too.
We went back and picked Mum up then spent the afternoon playing with Lego.
Until it was finally time to go and see Max and Leo's new puppy, Hartley:

Wow, he was soooo cute, and very sleepy.
But when he wasn't sleepy he was full of mischief!
I think it's safe to say we totally fell in love with him.

Sunday:
Fathers day then, we bestowed our finest handmade cards on him then made sure he was out of bed and ready to take us to Paultons park for the day.
It's nice to give him a treat on his special day.
We hadn't been to Paultons for ages, so we were really excited.
We were indeed, even after our early upset when Ned wasn't allowed on the Seal Falls ride because he was too old.
Yeah, what a shame, I love that ride too!  I was allowed on the diggers though:

Then it was on the new ride, Magma (which was brilliant).
While I kept it a little more down to earth on the trampolines:

I then got talked onto having a ride on the Cobra roller-coaster.  Big mistake, it was terrifying.  Never again.
I loved it though, I had a load of goes with Mum and Dad and then when I realised I was old enough and tall enough to ride it alone I had loads of laps on my own.  I couldn't believe it, there was hardly anyone else in the park.  After that I had about five goes on the Edge too!  Brilliant.
Once i'd got over my Cobra induced trauma I ghot back on it, starting off with the Fying Frog little rollercoaster and then the superfast Dragon roundabout.
We had a wander through the gardens:

Then got back on with the rides, I upped the ante again with a trip on the Srtinger, which I loved.
Then it was onto the jumping bean (see video), the pirate ship and of course the tea cups:

Which Dad got off from feeling very sick indeed.
We stopped for an ice cream, and a go on the radio controlled cars.
Which didn't start well as my car refused to follow any input from my controls.  A quick word with the man in the ice cream kiosk soon bought assistance and a couple of free goes for us both. 

After a few timing issues we finally got into the new 4D cinema, ridiculous glasses.....check!

It was pretty crazy it has to be said.  The chairs moved, things came out of the screen and we got squirted with water.
Well, it was a pirate theme, there was plenty of water!
Then we decided it was hight time to hit Peppa Pig land.
We had reasoned that most of the little ones that were dead keen on Peppa would have been, got tired and dragged off crying by now and there would be no one else there, we were proved pretty much right.
Yeah, it was cool, we could just walk onto any rides we liked, and we did!

We had to sit next to him sometimes I suppose, being as it was Fathers Day and all that:

I decided I was certainly not too old to enjoy it all either:

We saved the best for last though, the Wave Ruuner!
Water, speed whats not to like.  We loved it.
And had plenty of goes (see video for some onboard footage).
Then it was time to keep Mum sweet by letting her have a trip round on the train before nominating one more ride each before we went home.
For me, it was the Edge, so Dad and I headed right back over to the other side of the park.
While Mum and I plumped for the Log Flume and a few more goes on the Dragon Roundabout.
It was certainly a full on day out...brilliant!

Monday:
Wer were up in time for a game of Top Trumps before school.
Totally miraculously it didn't end up in a massive squabble either.
We both had a good day at school, I got two more good bahaviour shells to prove it.  After school dance club was the same superhero theme as Ned had last week.  It was brilliant fun.  I got to do the flying bit over my friends too (they layed down, I layed accross them and then they all rolled me over and along).
I had a reading test for some reason, it didn't bother me and I did quite well I think.  Quad kids training went well again, and to top it off Dad remembered to bring our scooters for pick up this week.
I drew quite a crowd of juniors around mine, they couldn't believe a 6 year old had an MGP!

Monday:
It was finally my birthday!  I was so relieved it was finally here as I was having real trouble working how how many more days it was right up until the last minute.  The only downer was this years birthday location, over recent years i've been in Florida, Barcelona, South Wales and this year?  This year I was going to be at school.  Oh well, at least I made sure I was up and out of bed before Dad left for work so I could get going on the presents early doors.  

The main one was a scooter, just like Ned's.  Some silent gliding for me coming up then.  My favourite of the early batch had to be my little crystal cat though, so cute, so sparkly, so fragile!  

Dad tried to talk Mum out of getting it for me apparently, he said i's mash it within minutes so i'll try my best to prove him wrong. 
School itself turned out to be pretty good actually, I got to lead all the lines during the day and the whole infant school sang happy birthday to me in assembly.  It was straight back to dancing after school, we did the pyjama song and loved it....lots of shouting involved! 
We picked Mum up from work, had a quick change and then headed to Pizza Hut to find Aunty Christine, Laura and Darcey had invited themselves along too, I was obviously overjoyed at this.
Yeah, Ellis' birthday, boooring.  Except Pizza Hut, that was okay of course.
We went home for birthday cake (after i'd had a bowl of smarties from the ice cream factory, ice cream?  who needs that?), of course Mum got me a lovely Colin the Catterpillar with no jam in it.  I hate jam.

So, there you go, i'm now 6!  Amazing eh?  At least i won't have to lie to get on Lego Driving School anymore.

Tuesday:
Mum had the day off work, with a bad back!  Most unlike her, she's usually pretty robust.
I think she's blaming it on shifting the post holiday suitcases around to clear the washing backlog.
I took some time to digest my avalanche of lovely presents i'd recieved from everyone so far.
Until we had to go to the dentist.  We LOVE going to the dentist still, it's all so exciting.
Everything was okay in that department and once we got home I managed to get Mum to help me stink the house out with my new 'Make your own perfume' kit.  It was great fun.

Wednesday:
I was a bit subdued at Team Kennet, the other kids who are off to the competitions got split up from the rest of us for more serious training which put my nose out of joint a bit.  I really want to do the serious training, but i'm note sure about the competing quite yet.....we'll have to see how this one pans out.
I took some time to do my home reading with Ned out of the house, i've gone up a level again which I was rather pleased about.
We went to pick him up a bit earlier than usual as it was such a nice evening.  I made some friends with a few of the other younger sisters and we had a great time, although our game of piggy in the middle with a large pebble was pretty ill advised on reflection.

Thursday:
Our planned school rounders day seemed to disappear from the day for some unknown reason.  Never mind, at least we got a normal day of reading and literacy....hooray!  I think not......
With the weather being so nice we went for a walk at Greenham Common after tea.
I didn't want to go, nope, not at all.  I didn't want to take my bike either.
I was well up for it of course.
Once we were there I changed my tune rather rapidly.  We had a great time razzing about on our bikes while Mum and Dad strolled along....the mugs.  I told Mum she really did ought to get herself a bike.  Even riding through a wet cow pat didn't spoil it for me too much (there was only a little bit splattered up my back and on my saddle).  I found plenty of little jumps and we almost got as far as the Team Kennet track at the far end.
I also loved it, I spent ages riding along with a lovely doggy chatting to his owner.  I didn't have such a good time when I realised my new Crocs had rubbed my feet a bit on the sore side though..ouch!

Friday:
I resumed my swimming lessons, there was no Eva this week, but Lois had finally been moved up a group to be in with us.  The changing rooms are at long last being renovated so for the meantime we have to use the even worse ones from the outdoor pool, yuck.
We even got to have a quick play in the newly re-done park at Northcroft afterwards, it's pretty cool actually.  We couldn't stay long though, it was school disco night and I had to get home and get changed.  i loved it of course, when I got home I was bright red and very sweaty from all my dancing.  In fact I had such a good time I had even forgotten to whinge about it finishing at half past eight instead of nine o'clock.

Saturday:
We had a lazy morning around the house, pottering about the garden, you know the sort of thing.
But it was the Infant school fete in the afternoon, I couldn't wait....tombola...SWEETS!!!!
Ned was more excited about than me I think? Anyway, we loved it, it was a lovely sunny day as well which was a real bonus.  I loved the bouncy castle and the face painting:

And I loved the sweets...oh, and the Alvin and the Chipmunks DVD set I won, which was an amazing coincidence as we'd discovered only yesterday that our one was too scratched to play any more.
Best of all though was helping Mum on the adult tombola stand, we did our best hard sell routines to drag in punters.
Yeah we certainly did, Mum reckoned it was much like an episode of the apprentice whatever that is.  My charm offensive worked a treat and we were taking loads of money.
The time seemed to fly by and it was soon enough time to pack up.  We helped tidy and put things away before heading for home...
....and then going out to the pub!  We went to the Craven with Owen and Andy, meting up with Chris, Kate, Finlay and Milly.
Not forgetting Bailey the lovely little doggie.
Some of our friends from school were there too, Leon, Isobel and Evelyn, brilliant!
We had a great game of football with Ellis' Hello Kitty football.....until it got booted into a particularly dense and prickly hedge never to be found again.
I took it very well it has to be said.
We found another ball in the hedge though so we had a game with that.  Dad, Andy, Owen and I had a game of world cup, it was great, we even managed to remain upright sometimes.

Sunday:
Bit of a lay in after the pub the previous night.
But it was finally my Birthday party!  It was at Northcroft, we had the bouncy castle (which actually turned out to be a brand new super swanky bouncy pirate ship), gymnastics equipment and then a play in bumpers. All strenuous stuff, and with me feeling a little tired and delicate I had a bit of a sniffle on a couple of occasions.  Oh well, I still had a lovely time:

Then it was time for a bite to eat and a rousing chorus of happy birthday, accompanied by another cake:

I rather enjoyed it all too it has to be said....
When we got home Alan and Hayley were waiting for us outside....we hadn't seen them for ages so it was really nice to see them and find out what they'd been up to.

I also got to go through my sack-full of presents my friends had given to me at my party, very exciting!

All that was pretty tiring, I let Ellis snuggle up with me and Ian to watch Ice Age on telly to round the day out:

Monday:
After school dance club was 'Ha-ha-ha-ha-staying alive' this week, great fun and plenty of bum wiggling!
And apparently the team has been chosed for quad kids.....but they haven't told us yet!

Tuesday

Harrison and I were passing each other love notes at school. We thought it was hilarious, the teachers didn't and they got put in the bin.  I made him another one as soon as I got home before we left for gymnastics.

We really enjoyed netball this week, we played proper games.  It was pretty hard but great fun, especially Maxim's home goal attempt.

Wednesday

Nothing too exciting to report, except the fire drill during breakfast club.

Fire drills, always a worthwhile diversion.

Thursday

I was a right old sleepy head, didn't wake up for ages. In fact I only had five minutes to get up and get ready for school.  Plenty of time for me though so it wasn't a problem.

After school dance club was a bit special this week, we performed in our pyjamas.  This was great until it was time to go home during the biggest hail storm i'd ever seen.

It was really cool, but quite hard to ride my bike home in!

Friday

The weather was really wet and cold and horrible.

I had to make a start on my homework project.

To top the misery and woe off, the car was declared broken too.

This meant that we didn't make it to swimming lessons.  It didn't really matter as it was fun week being the end of term and ll that.  

On the upside, my project turned out rather well even if I do say so myself.

We even both did our reading books, just a well we were so organised as we were off on holiday the next day.

Shame we didn't really manage an early night as we'd planned.

Saturday

It was another early one as well, but we both got up and got ready really nicely. With the car out of action we had to go to the airport in a taxi, so it was a good job we were being all posh this time round and going from terminal 5 at Heathrow.

All our previous taxi rides have been much like a wild runaway roller coaster ride, but this one was much more sedate (well, it was 4:15 am).

We arrived in plenty of time for our 7:00 am flight to Rome.

I was so excited, i'd wanted to go here for years since we learned about the Romans at school.

I haven't done that at school yet, but I had been promised a swimming pool and some sunshine so I was equally enthusiastic.

As we made our way through the airport, amongst the sea of people we spotted some familiar faces, our friends Edward and Eva.  They were off to Kos!

The flights were all very civilsed on British Airways, we had window seats and everything, lovely.

The flight was only two hours and we were soon landing in Italy.  I told Dad how I couldn't wait to step off the plane and feel the heat and the sunshine.

Things are different in Italy, there was a lovely kids playground right next to the baggage carousel for a start.

We were in no hurry to get our luggage back thats for sure.

Sadly, another seemingly common trait of the Italian way was the particularly long wait for our hire car.....

Again we were very well behaved and had a good old Ipod session while we waited.

It turned out the wait was well worth it though when we got our key for an Alfa Romo Juilietta.  I've been Alfa spotting on the roads at home for months so this was a genuinely exciting thing for me.

Yeah, but it was really hard to get our set belts to click in.

Never mind that, we were soon on the road and heading for our campsite.

It didn't take long to get there, even with our small sat nav induced detour.

We were still too early to check in though, so we headed to the poolside bar for a bite to eat while we waited, Pizza of course!

Once this was dealt with we were still too early to check in so we sent Dad back to the car to extract our swimming costumes and a towel, it would have been rude not to try the pool after all.

The pool was awesome, pretty shallow and lined with a grippy, soft rubber surface.

With a good selection of slides and what have you.

We got changed and went for a walk around the site for a bit, there were some seriously cute cats strutting about.

Finally it was time to get our keys and get unpacked.

And have a little sofa time before the inevitable supermarket trip.

The supermarket was very close by though, and it also had some really cool stuff to look at in the way of food.  

We headed back to site where I did a superb job of unpacking the shopping and putting it away.

We had a bite to eat:

Then we tuned in for the night, it had been a very long day.

With our Horrible Histories Romans book by way of a bedtime story.

But of course, as we were sharing a bedroom there was plenty of sniggering and nonsense before we gave in for the night.

Sunday

After such a long day on Saturday we had a bit of a lie in before taking breakfast out on the deck.

Before deciding to head off to a place called Ostia Antica for the day.

We made it there safe and sound despite some really spirited Italian style driving, involving a gridlocked  junction and a lot of blaring horns.  We thought it was hugely entertaining.

It helped Dad get a real feel for the roads though, rule number one, don't sit still for more than 20 seconds or you'll get a good old horn blasting to wake you up.

Anyway, Ostia Antica used to be the main port for Rome until a big flood changed the course of the river, leading to the town that had grown up around the port to be abandoned.

It was really cool with so much to explore, a whole Roman town, complete with mosaics, fresco's the works.

We had lunch sat at the top of the amphitheatre and watched a couple of young German wannabe gladiators having an epic sword fight with their toy swords and shields.

For me the best thing about the place were the lovely wild flowers that were gently blowing in the breeze between the buildings though.  Oh, and the cats skulking about the place.

The statues with winkles were obviously hilarious:

We got back to the campsite in time for a late afternoon swim to cool off after a lovely sunny day outside.

Then it was back to the decking where I attempted to eat my own weight in pizza and a few games of cards,

Monday

While we were eating our breakfast (outside on the deck of course) there was a top quality cat fight in the tree opposite, it ended with a loud cat squawk as one of them fell out of the tree and ran off.  We thought this was hilarious.

It was looking like a lovely day so we decided a day on the site was in order.  Luckily as we were up pretty early we managed to secure ourselves a go-kart each from the camp site shop.  As it turned out this was no mean feat, as it was quite an ordeal to secure one before they were all gone for the day.

As the site itself was so big and pretty much flat they were brilliant fun.  We used them to go to the park, the shop, the pool and best of all the ice cream parlour.

Ooh, the ice cream parlour.

So many flavours to choose from!

We had a delicious slow cooked bolognese sauce for tea, it was a lot more slow cooked than Dad had intended I think....he left it bubbling away all morning while we were at the pool.  It was lucky he didn't burn the caravan down!

We also made friends for the week with Dan and Grace from Cambridge.  They were great fun, loved the cats as much as we did and enjoyed riding on the back of our go karts.

Tuesday
Well the good times couldn't last for ever I suppose, we had to go into Rome itself.
I was well excited about it of course, we made our way out of the campsite to the nearby bus stop.  No one had told it was on the other side of the road, the main road into Rome, which was like a motorway!  Crossing the first half to the central reservation was okay, but huddling with a load of Germans in the middle as the traffic sped past at 100mph was quite an experience.
We made it safely across though and were soon on the bus.  It was only a short trip until we reached the underground station and got on the train.
The train was awesome, much wider than our underground and pretty much empty, but best of all the carriages didn't have doors between them meaning you could see right up and down the whole length of the train.
Of course, being in Europe there were buskers on the train, in this case a man playing an accordian, we thought he was pretty good although the locals looked a bit more troubled by him.  I did have a little dance it has to be said.
After a few stops we arrived at 'Colosseo'  but even with a name like that we weren't prepared for the sight that greeted us as we climbed the stairs from the station.  There was the Colosseum right before us, just like it looks on the telly.  It was pretty amazing it has to be said.
Even I was quite taken with it.
The blokes dressed up as Roman Soldiers just added to the spectacle and we made our way inside.
Inside was pretty cool it has to be said.

Best of all was the wildlife, we saw plenty of little lizards basking in the sun shine, even better than that was a lovely black cat, lying out in the sunshine, oblivious to the hundreds of people wandering about the place.

We had a great explore, up and down the steps taking in the views and imagining the events that would have taken place here.

There was of course a lovely gift shop....roman coins and Colosseum models aplenty!

We made our way back outside and took our picnic on the the grassy slope overlooking the Colosseum.  
Which was lovely, except people kept trying to sell us stuff...silly toys, silk scarves, god knows what else.  We found that rather weird it has to be said.

After that we headed off for a wander about to see what we could find.  We loved the Trevi fountain and made sure we tossed plenty of coins into it to ensure we would return in the future:

We stumbled across a building called the Pantheon and had a look inside.

It was really cool to see what Roman buildings would have been like inside as it was so well preserved and not a crumbling ruin like the other stuff.
Then we had a date with La Bocca della Verità (The Mouth of Truth).

You put your hand in it's mouth and then you get asked a question, if you fail to tell the truth it apparently bites off your hand!
Dad almost got me going saying that no one had lost a hand in the last ten years....
Anyway, we both got asked if we were 'The Little Rabbit' 

I decided to admit to it just in case, I didn't much fancy losing a hand.

Accompanying this was a church with a well creepy crypt, and a much more welcome tut shop. 

Even Dad got it on the tut action and bought himself a very tasteful Lambretta fridge magnet emblazoned with a picture of the Colosseum and the word Roma.  He's classy.

I got a really cool book, it has pictures of how the old roman buildings are today and overlays of how they would have looked when they were built.  I'm sure I could be persuaded to show anyone who expresses any sort of interest whatsoever.

After a long day and a lot of walking we decided to head back to camp, sadly we were just a little bit too late for a swim as the pool had closed for the day.

It wasn't all bad news though, our friends Dan and Grace were around and even better they had go karts.  They were only too pleased to return the favour and share them with us for the night as we zoomed round the site, tempting the cats out from their hidey holes.

Funnily there was no sign of our tired legs we were complaining about when we were trudging round Rome.

Indeed we had quite a second wind and rounded the day out with a session of the shopping game, which Dad is still totally rubbish at it.

Wednesday

After our full on Rome day we took it easy today.

We started the morning off with a round of mini golf.

Which was good fun, even if I did get a bit too competitive according to Mum.

Then we hit the pool to make up for yesterday, with the added bonus of a trip to the ice cream parlour....delish!

We had a bit of a slouchy snoozey session before Dan and Grace turned up with some cat food for the site cats.  Armed with that we managed to attract 11 cats!

And we gave them all names too.

We went to the site restaurant for tea, where my pizza binge continued with gusto.

We then made our way to the children's entertainment, we had a bit of a dance.

But I was pretty sleepy and wanted to head back to bed.

I hung around for the games afterwards but they were pretty wafty it has to be said, I decided to turn in for the night too.

Thursday

Another trip out, this time a bit further afield to Lake Bracciano.

It gave us a good oppurtunity to spend some quality time in the Alfa and see what else was on the roads.

It was also a nice chance for a catch up kip.

We took the long way round, passing by the beach at Ostia, it was all a bit weird though, you had to pay to go on it? It was certainly nothing like Cornwall that's for sure.

We arrived at the lake, managed to find the beach section and get parked up.  We were the only ones there and it was a really beautiful place, I loved it.

We had a picnic, sat on the coarse sandy beach, there were some lovely bits of gravel to add to my collection.

Once lunch was finished I decided it was well and truly time for a swim.  I waded out to my waist and then with a little squeak I was off and swimming, it was lovely.

Once Ned took the initiative we all followed suit, the water was warmer than in the swimming pool I reckon.

We sat on the beach soaking up the warm sunshine to dry off.

Dad wondered what the faint burning smell was, I quipped that it was Mum's legs (they were a fairly bright shade of pink it has to be said). I think he was hoping it was some sort of rustic wood burning pizza oven I think.

We headed back to the camp site without the diversion and got back a lot quicker.  Just as well too, the pool was waiting for us and so were our friends.

We had a great afternoon.

We spent the evening playing with Dan and Grace and rounded the day our with a trip to the ice cream parlour with them.

Friday

It was a bit of a sad start to the day, our friends were off!

Yeah, they were driving to Venice, so we bid a fond farewell to them.

It had been great fun having such nice friends for the week.

We spent the day at the pool, at the park and looking out for the campsite cats.

We also had an extended board game session, dad proved he was still rubbish at the shopping game.

We had another pizza binge from the takeaway (except Ned, who preferred the frozen ones we had bought at the supermarket the weirdo).

We had one last trip to the ice cream parlour and soaked up the views out over the countryside towards Rome in the distance.....

Saturday
Time to go home.  But we had plenty of time for a morning snuggle up:

Of course, last day of the the holiday always means ice creams for breakfast (to empty the freezer).
We loaded up our stuff and headed back to the reception to drop off our keys and have a game of giant connect 4 outside (or connect 6 in my case).  I also managed a quick final paddle in the pool before we hit the road back to the airport.
Just as we stopped to top up the car fuel it absolutely chucked it down with rain.  Luckily they had pump attendants so Dad didn't have to get wet.
Dropping off the car at the airport was a heck of a lot quicker than picking it up which was quite a relief.
Indeed it was, and despite a bit of confusion dropping off our car seats at the outside baggage desk (leading to an Italian man in the queue with us apologising on behalf of his entire country for their inefficiency) we were even able to tuck into a McDonalds for lunch before we boarded the flight for home.
The bloke from the queue earlier would have no doubt been un-impressed that we were half an hour late taking off.....we didn't mind though.
So a few bits and bobs that didn't really fit in, but need to be mentioned I think.
First of all, as a blonde haired girl in a dark haired country I was universally loved.
I couldn't believe how much interest she generated actually?
Secondly, the food, I ate so much of everything this week, Mum reckons i'll have a growth spurt.  Here I am munching on a large chunk of Parmesan, Dad and I went mad for the stuff:

Myself and Mum were rather none-plussed with the cheese, what we really liked were these biscuits (and their associated ice-cream spin-off):

But one thing everyone agreed on was the washing up liquid...Bum Bum anyone?

Of course with the abundance of wild flowers it seemed only right and proper that I decorated our table with some:

So that just about rounds it up I think.
Except for a big thank you to Andy who came to collect us from the airport.  Therefore taking the full brunt of our 'holiday download talking'
Then it was Britain's Got Talent on telly.  I even downloaded the app this week for my Ipod so I could join in.

Sunday
So, we were well and truly home, at least the weather was nice.
Dad and I had a trip by bike to the M&S at the retail park for a few bits for our barbecue lunch.
We spent the day out in the garden, it wasn't too bad to be home after all I suppose?