We had decided to go up north on Friday on the principle that whichever day we travelled most of it would be taken up with travelling, and if we left it until Saturday then there wouldn’t be much party left to attend.
This turned out to be a very good plan when Small spent the best part of 3 hours on last minute tidying of his bedroom in order to find his sunhat. He cannot hang on to more than one instruction at a time – if you give him more than one you risk none of them being carried out. At some point during the morning he found the hat and instead of doing anything sensible like telling me about it, he put it on the bookshelf where I found it much later, on top of a book I’d put there myself earlier in the morning.
Sigh.
Anyway, we got away in the end, sometime around 3 I think, and made it via a meal stop at OK diner, which was very nice, although I should have skipped the fries as I couldn’t fit a pudding in and had to watch the other three eat icecream (children) or chocolate fudge brownie sundae (guess he wasn’t starting the diet until after the weekend then 😉 ).
Lovely to arrive offthepath even if a little late, it’s a place that I’ve spent so much time it feels like a second home. Spread our sleeping stuff in the spare room (far too late for putting up tents) and set the children free, so that we adults could catch up – a whole week had happened since we’d seen each other!
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