The next weekend, in the morning, we went with the same Cotswold group and one other family to Dinosaur land at the Birmingham International airport. It was reasonably good. But because our cheeky monkey ( CM hereafterwards) had been finishing off Harry Potter books with a furious passion during the week, every Friday evening we ended up watching the movies of those books that she had finished to round off her Harry Potter experience.
So, she was quite cranky on Saturday mornings! She ended up in tears when one of the boys said something mean ( it was really mean, though at this age, I imagine they do not realise how mean they sound!). Usually she takes it in her chin and gives it back, I guess this time, she was too tired to fight back. So, as soon as the event was over, the other two families stayed back for a catch up, but we left. To cheer her up, we used our usual formula - A trip to the library, followed by a Subway sandwich and hot Chocolate. As soon as we stepped in to the library, she perked up! Sleep was forgotten, lots of books and reading with hot chocolate naturally happened.
By the time we came home, it was time to get ready for the 'Innisai Maalai' , a karaoke evening organised by the local tamil sangam. I went with a mild fear that it may be a bit boring but it was a pleasant surprise to the contrary. I met a lot of my fiends, lots of fun and food was had. I sang 'pattu padava' - just a few lines and K sang ' Mun Paniya!' (really badly but we both wanted the CM to know that you do not always need to be great to give things a go!) It was a good evening.
On the sunday, we went to K's colleague's house for lunch and a fantastic, fun-filled, long, chatty afternoon ensued for all of us. We left their house only late in the evening.
In the long weekend, given it was the CM's English calendar birthday on the Saturday and Tamil Calendar birthday on the Monday, elaborate plans were made.
On the Friday, all of us travelled to K's work city. The CM and I stayed in a day hotel and I worked from there while the CM got on with the next Harry Potter book. We thens tarted the 4 hour drive to Allenheads. We had 2 other families joining us from Glasgow. We had booked a lovely old school house on the top of a hill with a beautiful view of the moors below. The green rolling hills and the rustic plethora of lakes made for a very enjoyable drive.
Between the families we had two 8 year olds (incluing our CM who was turning 8 over the weekend), one 2 year old and one 3 year old. The two 8 year olds had met once before and had gotten along famously. Throughout this stay, they were thick as thieves and when we left T, CM's friend even had tears in her eyes at the thought of letting her friend go!
They slep by each other on the bunk beds in our room and always travelled together in our car while T's parents and younger sis travelled in hers.
...to be continued
So, she was quite cranky on Saturday mornings! She ended up in tears when one of the boys said something mean ( it was really mean, though at this age, I imagine they do not realise how mean they sound!). Usually she takes it in her chin and gives it back, I guess this time, she was too tired to fight back. So, as soon as the event was over, the other two families stayed back for a catch up, but we left. To cheer her up, we used our usual formula - A trip to the library, followed by a Subway sandwich and hot Chocolate. As soon as we stepped in to the library, she perked up! Sleep was forgotten, lots of books and reading with hot chocolate naturally happened.
By the time we came home, it was time to get ready for the 'Innisai Maalai' , a karaoke evening organised by the local tamil sangam. I went with a mild fear that it may be a bit boring but it was a pleasant surprise to the contrary. I met a lot of my fiends, lots of fun and food was had. I sang 'pattu padava' - just a few lines and K sang ' Mun Paniya!' (really badly but we both wanted the CM to know that you do not always need to be great to give things a go!) It was a good evening.
On the sunday, we went to K's colleague's house for lunch and a fantastic, fun-filled, long, chatty afternoon ensued for all of us. We left their house only late in the evening.
In the long weekend, given it was the CM's English calendar birthday on the Saturday and Tamil Calendar birthday on the Monday, elaborate plans were made.
On the Friday, all of us travelled to K's work city. The CM and I stayed in a day hotel and I worked from there while the CM got on with the next Harry Potter book. We thens tarted the 4 hour drive to Allenheads. We had 2 other families joining us from Glasgow. We had booked a lovely old school house on the top of a hill with a beautiful view of the moors below. The green rolling hills and the rustic plethora of lakes made for a very enjoyable drive.
Between the families we had two 8 year olds (incluing our CM who was turning 8 over the weekend), one 2 year old and one 3 year old. The two 8 year olds had met once before and had gotten along famously. Throughout this stay, they were thick as thieves and when we left T, CM's friend even had tears in her eyes at the thought of letting her friend go!
They slep by each other on the bunk beds in our room and always travelled together in our car while T's parents and younger sis travelled in hers.
...to be continued
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