Bank Holiday Weekend
Sorry you'll have to wait a little longer for photos as we only have the laptops on line and should be online with the main computer over the weekend. So you'll have to be content with me telling you about what we did. When we last left our heros we were moving to our new apartment. That weekend was a Bank Holiday Weekend, Monday was a Bank Holiday. I'm sure that if you looked it up it would be something similar to our odd ball holidays in the States, but nobody really thinks of them by their names. They are all Bank Holidays. So that gave us a three day weekend. We finished moving all our stuff on Saturday morning from the apartment in the City Centre turned in the keys and headed over to the new apartment. I had planned for the weekend to go something like this: move Saturday, go to Bolsover Castle Sunday for the Romans to Royals event, and Monday go to the Highland Fling in Graves Park.
So this is how the weekend really went. Saturday we finished moving in the morning and then went to Ikea in the afternoon. We needed some drawer space since all we had was closet space. We also wanted to look at either bunk beds or a loft bed for the kids. We found some shelving for us, a bookcase for the books I brought with, and a loft bed for Little Man. Though we still had the Minivan not everything would fit, so we had it delivered which would be sometime on Sunday. So Sunday we went to Asda Walmart (yeah, their here too) and bought a bunch more stuff for the apartment. (I spent Friday at this wonderful place called Dunelm buying bedding and kitchen stuff.) Then came back when Ikea called to say it'd be about 30 minutes until they were going to be at the apartment. We got back they unloaded and Phil and I set to work on Little Man's loft bed.
Monday, we decided to go to the Romans to Royals event at Bolsover Castle. The event takes place on the Castle grounds. They had a Roman army camp set up and showed some manuvers. They also had jousting with horses. We got to go on a tour of the Little Castle which Little Man had trouble with near the end. It wasn't what he wanted to be doing, but it was really neat. We had a picnic there which we had to stop at a grocery store before heading out. I found Skippy peanut butter. It was the happiest moment of the day, I swear. They just don't understand what peanut butter is supposed to be over here, which if you read the label of the Skippy you'd understand why. "Try topping Skippy Peanut Butter with bananas (okay not a bad suggestion) or cooked chicken (What?!) or even Marmite yeast extract (GAG!) for adventurous sandwich fillings." No respect for the peanut butter. I'm tempted to make them all peanut butter cookies and see if they truly learn to respect the peanut butter. Chicken? Anyhow, since Lady Jane is surviving by only eating Peanut Butter sandwiches this was a wonderful discovery. I digress.
We had a lovely picnic while watching the jousting. Lady Jane picked up a princess dress at the fair along with the coned princess hat, early birthday presents.
Sorry you'll have to wait a little longer for photos as we only have the laptops on line and should be online with the main computer over the weekend. So you'll have to be content with me telling you about what we did. When we last left our heros we were moving to our new apartment. That weekend was a Bank Holiday Weekend, Monday was a Bank Holiday. I'm sure that if you looked it up it would be something similar to our odd ball holidays in the States, but nobody really thinks of them by their names. They are all Bank Holidays. So that gave us a three day weekend. We finished moving all our stuff on Saturday morning from the apartment in the City Centre turned in the keys and headed over to the new apartment. I had planned for the weekend to go something like this: move Saturday, go to Bolsover Castle Sunday for the Romans to Royals event, and Monday go to the Highland Fling in Graves Park.
So this is how the weekend really went. Saturday we finished moving in the morning and then went to Ikea in the afternoon. We needed some drawer space since all we had was closet space. We also wanted to look at either bunk beds or a loft bed for the kids. We found some shelving for us, a bookcase for the books I brought with, and a loft bed for Little Man. Though we still had the Minivan not everything would fit, so we had it delivered which would be sometime on Sunday. So Sunday we went to Asda Walmart (yeah, their here too) and bought a bunch more stuff for the apartment. (I spent Friday at this wonderful place called Dunelm buying bedding and kitchen stuff.) Then came back when Ikea called to say it'd be about 30 minutes until they were going to be at the apartment. We got back they unloaded and Phil and I set to work on Little Man's loft bed.
Monday, we decided to go to the Romans to Royals event at Bolsover Castle. The event takes place on the Castle grounds. They had a Roman army camp set up and showed some manuvers. They also had jousting with horses. We got to go on a tour of the Little Castle which Little Man had trouble with near the end. It wasn't what he wanted to be doing, but it was really neat. We had a picnic there which we had to stop at a grocery store before heading out. I found Skippy peanut butter. It was the happiest moment of the day, I swear. They just don't understand what peanut butter is supposed to be over here, which if you read the label of the Skippy you'd understand why. "Try topping Skippy Peanut Butter with bananas (okay not a bad suggestion) or cooked chicken (What?!) or even Marmite yeast extract (GAG!) for adventurous sandwich fillings." No respect for the peanut butter. I'm tempted to make them all peanut butter cookies and see if they truly learn to respect the peanut butter. Chicken? Anyhow, since Lady Jane is surviving by only eating Peanut Butter sandwiches this was a wonderful discovery. I digress.
We had a lovely picnic while watching the jousting. Lady Jane picked up a princess dress at the fair along with the coned princess hat, early birthday presents.
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