Archive for June, 2007
Holiday
Well for those of you who don’t know (which is hardly anyone), we’ve just returned from a two week trip to Ireland!
We went on the 9th June, drove to Holyhead which was a good 6 hour drive! Then we caught the Ferry to Dublin and had just over an hours drive once we were in Dublin.
On arrival, the owner of the cottage showed us round, it was on a dairy farm so the girls enjoyed the site of cows every day! However it did take Bethany two weeks to realise that cows Moo instead of Baa!
The cottage was very large and there was certainately enough room for us!
We visited various sites (despite the rain). The most memorable for us were the Japenese gardens, Newgrange, Kilkenny, Dublin Zoo to name but a few.
We went to Dublin Zoo and the girls had a fantastic time. Amie decided she was going to roar at a Tiger (see below). Fortunately for her the tiger was behind glass. She had no idea what he would have done to her if he wasn’t!
We also saw a baby giraffe there, he was 3 weeks old and already 6 foot tall!
Feel free to have a look in the photo Gallery of some of the fantastic pictures James took.
You will also see some of some friends we went up with while we were there.
Our cottage:
Kilkenny Castle:
Amie and Bethany at Glendaloch:
Amie’s friend the rabbit:
Amie and the Tiger at Dublin Zoo:
James and the girls at the Japenese Gardens:
A 3 week old Giraffe at the Zoo:
Curly hair
That is Amie’s new request! She wants curly hair.
I’ve convinced her now to eat her crusts to make her hair go curly so I had to think of something else when, after a week, it failed to go curly!
So today, I plaited her hair and informed her that when I take the plaits out it will be curly. You should have seen the smile on her face when she saw it. So tonight, after her bath, I gave her 7 little plaits to sleep in. I do hope it’s lovely and curly tomorrow otherwise I’ll be in trouble!
***edit*** well the update is that a certain young lady had very pretty curly (well wavy) hair and she was chuffed to bits with it. Sadly she was very upset when I told her they wouldn’t stay in!
It’s too bad I’m going to have it cut a lot shorter tomorrow (unless the hairdresser talks me out of it!)
No commentsA new toy
We received delivery of our long awaited swing for the garden last week.
We ordered it at the beginning of May and much to my disgust we received it at the beginning of June…be warned if you ever order anything from Mothercare online!
Anyway, it’s here now and thanks to Grandad Thomas (who gave up a whole day of his holiday to assemble it for us!) it is up and almost play worthy. It just needs anchoring down to stop the children from falling off it!
It is green and yellow and has two swings (one of which has been replaced with a baby seat for Bethany) and it also has a glider (see saw) anyone who pushes amie on that has to sing “see saw majory daw!
I’ll post a piccy of it later, in the meantime, thanks again to Dad. I know you wanted to go out and not spend the whole day assembling a swing!
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