After playing some good games with Alan & Katie last night I decided to pay a visit to the charity shops in Boscombe this morning whilst Richard was doing some work. I went into 5 charity shops in the 2 blocks of shops I had time to visit and spent about £7 on 6 books and board games. What a bargain! I will blog about each games as they are played!
After lunch we set off to the New Forest and Linford Bottom. I missed the turning but we decided to keep going and find another spot to stop for a ramble.
We came to a lovely little spot where the road fjorded a river. We pulled over and stroked the horses and foals that were there. Then we discovered a sand hill and the girls played for a cou
ple of hours running up the hill, sliding down and digging in the sand. There was also a rope swing in a tree and a huge bough on a tree which they sat on. It was a very hot day, so the girls wanted to then go back to the river for a paddle. We hadn't taken any change of clothes, swimming costumes, or towels, so we asked the girls to roll up their trousers so as not to get too wet!! Well it was only a matter of minutes before Naomi and Liesl were in the river up
to their waists, and
Emily asked if she could swim. So by this time we
thought what the heck- they might as well enjoy themselves. They all took turns jumping in and out of the river until they were feeling a little bit chilly! We went back to the car and stripped off all their wet clothes.
We dried them as best we could with what we had available - Matt's fleece blanket and covered their nakedness with their raincoats. Daddy bought them all an ice-cream cone with flakes, and they looked a picture eating their ice-creams dressed in their raincoats!
In the evening after we got Martha settled in bed, me and Jasp had our first date since Martha was born. We went to see Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix. IT was great. we thouroughly enjoyed it, and best of all, Martha had only stirred once, and settled back straight away when mum gave her her dummy. We all slept in the living room so as not to disturb the sleeping girls by moving them out to the tent.
We came to a lovely little spot where the road fjorded a river. We pulled over and stroked the horses and foals that were there. Then we discovered a sand hill and the girls played for a cou
ple of hours running up the hill, sliding down and digging in the sand. There was also a rope swing in a tree and a huge bough on a tree which they sat on. It was a very hot day, so the girls wanted to then go back to the river for a paddle. We hadn't taken any change of clothes, swimming costumes, or towels, so we asked the girls to roll up their trousers so as not to get too wet!! Well it was only a matter of minutes before Naomi and Liesl were in the river up
to their waists, and 
Emily asked if she could swim. So by this time we 
thought what the heck- they might as well enjoy themselves. They all took turns jumping in and out of the river until they were feeling a little bit chilly! We went back to the car and stripped off all their wet clothes. 
We dried them as best we could with what we had available - Matt's fleece blanket and covered their nakedness with their raincoats. Daddy bought them all an ice-cream cone with flakes, and they looked a picture eating their ice-creams dressed in their raincoats!
I must find out what kind of lizard this is to add to our nature notebook.
In the afternoon we went to the beach at Alum chine. Kelly, Amber, Emily, Naomi and Liesl all went up to their waist in the sea. In the evening we went to visit Wendy and Royce and played some fun games.
On Thursday we had a family outing to Butlins in Skegness. We had a wonderful day. We started in the funfair until it closed for lunch at1pm. Richard doesn't really like fair rides very much so he looked after Martha whilst I took the girls onto the rides. Most of the rides, the girls needed to be accompanied by an adult which meant that I had to do each ride 3 times (once with each girl!)
sailed by Scotland, Poland, Sweden, and Canada. Richard told us all about Austria, and made the food for Austria. The last place that we visited we played lots of games including Limbo (I got to the lowest level of the adults that played!) Emily and Naomi got lower.
