The sad farewell

Unfortunately like all good things our holidays and Ann's visit have come to an end. We took Ann to the airport with the hopes she would catch the 10.25 am direct flight to Vancouver. As it turns out not only did she catch the flight but she travelled first class!!  Lucky lady!!

It was fantastic having Ann here for the past couple of weeks, we had a great chance to catch up something we haven't done for many years. It's great to see how happy she is now and to hear about all the fun she is having all the time in retirement.

It was a very sad occasion to say goodbye but I know we will see each other again soon.

Love you Auntie!

Leeds Castle

Yesterday we came home and spent the afternoon catching up on laundry and checking flights for Ann's return journey. She decided the best flight to try was on Thursday morning so we felt we really needed to take her to Leeds Castle before she went home.

Leeds Castle is such a gorgeous castle with tremendous grounds. We spent the entire day exploring before heading home.

Poole

Our last day before driving home was spent at the seaside town of Poole. As we were all quite tired of walking after such an eventful week we decided on a boat harbour tour. What a great relaxing couple of hours. After the boat tour we headed back to the campsite for another campfire. As it turns out we had a campfire every night except for Saturday night as it was too chilly.

Bournemouth Air Show

We bought a couple new lawn chairs for our holidays but when they arrived we realised they weighed a ton so not the best to take out like to the airshow. When we arrived we had only 3 chairs for the 4 of us but my plan was to buy a smaller lawn chair from one of the trade stalls. Roger and I started walked the displays at the airshow and after having walked 1 1/2 miles finally found one to rent. After we hauled it back to where we had left Ann and Jayme sitting we settled in for the show.

News reports said that over 1.3 million people had attended the 4 day event and boy was that evident from the amount sharing the beach with us...but that didn't deter us from having a great afternoon.

Unfortunately the Red Arrows were not scheduled for the day however some x-red arrow pilots had formed a new group called the Blades and they were spectacular. The event ended with the Misdemeanour flight followed by a rather sad Navy salute.