Monday 3 June 2013

Family fun weekend


My parents came to stay this weekend, unfortunatley due to our current living situation it doesnt happen as often as we would like it to so when it does we try & make the most of having them here & I think we can safely say we achieved that this weekend, we didnt stop.

We met them in Ware on Friday afternoon for Steve to do his zorbing experience which they got him for Christmas.  When we arrived we we're totally amazed by the gorgeous landscape surrounding the golf & adventure centre, you could do all sorts there, zorbing, segway racing, archery, fishing, lazer clay pigeon shooting, high tops adventure & axe throwing but for Friday it was all about the zorbing.

 
 
After sending Steve down the hill with 'someone' inside screaming like a girl we took a walk around the gorgeous surroundings, poked our heads inside the wedding venue that was in use that day and had a lovely pimms in the sunshine together overlooking the view.  The perfect start to a great weekend.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
On Saturday we took a little ride to Maldon to have a walk around the shops and the river & had lunch in our favourite waterside pub & on Sunday we took a walk around Witham & had a yummy carvery at one of our local pubs.  It has been a great weekend spent with great company & I'm going to leave this blog post with a photo i know is going to get me into heaps of trouble hehe.......
 
 
As you can see........Our joint family tree is full of nuts!
 
We love you
xx

Going back to my youth....


The sun came out for us last weekend & we decided to head to the East coast for the day with Sam, Mark & the kids & go back in time to our childhood holidays spent by the seaside eating chip shop chips on the beach with a wooden fork & our family favourite pastime - crabbing!

We visited somewhere I have never been before, but apparently I'm the only person who hasn't because the little town of Warberswick, Suffolk was buzzing with people and the yelps of joy from children with a line full of crabs but too scared to get them off.  oh the memories.

We had a successful time crabbing, 41 crabs in total plus a special appearance from stealth crab Houdini who kept on escaping.

 
 
 
 
 
 
After crabbing we drove to Aldeburgh for what was hyped to be 'the greatest chips I'd ever taste' he he I'm going to get an ear bashing for typing that......I did however highly rate the free side portion of batter bits, so the 40 minute queue was worth it.  If only that queue was made up of running machines, we could have all burnt off what we were about to devour!
 
After lunch on the beach we headed to Leiston where we took the beach & cliff walk along the coast to Thorpeness & back & visited the noddy houses.
 
 
 
 
 
 
It was a great day out & lovely to spend time with the Weatherleys xx