We arrived at Meadow View Caravan Park today and setup camp. It took us about 2 1/2 hours to get here as the Bank Holiday traffic was a bit heavy...not nearly as heavy as we expected as most traffic was going the other way.
It feels great to finally be on holiday and the weather promises to be great for the week!
We are finally on annual leave. The week seemed to just drag, not helped by the fact that I knew Ann was at home during the day while we worked. Must admit though it's rather nice having someone do the ironing and all the laundry!
We have decided that, since the weather forecast is for it to rain all next week in Scotland, we would spend the week in the South where the sun is suppose to shine! Since it is a long weekend we have decided to hold off heading west until Monday so today we took Ann to Hever Castle. It rained all day but we still really enjoyed it. Unfortunately the gardens don't look as beautiful in the rain but the crowds were much less!
You will probably notice that Hever Castle is tilting like the Leaning Tower of Pisa....well that's just Ann's photography....very similar to mine! lol
Tomorrow we are off to Herstmonceaux Castle for a medieval festival...should be lots of fun!
Finally a few more days till we head to the great north of Scotland! Roger and I have planned to holiday in Scotland for the past 3 years but for some reason we have had to change our plans at the last minute....not this time! We are packed and ready to go!
I invited Aunty Ann to come from Canada for the holiday, she hasn't been to the UK since 2000 so it was long over due! As Brent works for Air Canada Ann was able to fly at a much cheaper rate by flying standby....little did she know until she got to the airport that flying standby is not for the faint hearted. After not being able to get on a couple flights (with long layovers) at the very last minute she was able to get a direct flight to London and arrived on Sunday at 11.30am.
Because she didn't have time to contact us before her flight departed she worried about how to get in touch with us when she landed at Heathrow....little did she know Brent had already emailed us so we were there to meet her....much to her relief.
Once we got her home we took her to Tesco for her first outing and in true Ann style she was ripping around the aisles! Good luck UK...Auntie is here!!
What started out as a possibly disaterous weekend turned into a great one!
The girls had agreed to join us camping on the weekend and I had been looking forward to it for weeks. I had even booked Friday off to make it a long weekend. Since the campsite was only a few miles from Roger's work he took the motorhome to work Thursday morning so he could get everything set up by the time I arrived after work.
I called Roger from the road and rather wished I hadn't as he was thoroughly ticked off. He had arrived at the site to discover that a mistake had been made and someone else was in our double spot. Roger was furious that we were now parked facing the toilets. Trying to make sense of what he was saying I said to wait until I arrived to assess the situation before we decided what to do. The rest of the drive all I could think of was how I didn't want a confrontation, I wanted a nice quiet break.
I arrived about one hour later and Roger was so worked up that before I could get out of the car he said he wanted to go home. For those that don't know Roger, this was completely out of character for him as he is usually such a calm person. After speaking to the landlady who apologised profusely for the confusion, we agreed to move to a different pitch the next morning when the occupants vacated. This did not really appease Roger as he was upset that if we sat outside the motorhome we were looking at the toilets. After suggesting we turn the motorhome around so the door opened the other side he calmed down and the crisis was averted!
The next morning Roger took my car to work and when the new spot was vacant I moved the motorhome and got everything set up for the weekend.
The girls joined us that evening and stayed in a tent near the motorhome. We had a great time sitting around the new firepit they had bought us as an anniversary gift.
Saturday was very windy and the row boating we had planned to do in the afternnon was postponed until Sunday. We spent the entire day relaxing and talking.
Sunday we rented a row boat and spent a couple hours laughing as we tried to manouever the river before we headed home.
We all decided that we needed to plan more weekends away just like this one as we have a great time when we get together and life is too short!
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