Our Camping Holiday – part 2
The weather wasn’t the best whilst we were on our holiday but needless to say Mummy (Alli) and Daddy (Tim) still managed to keep us entertained with a variety of activities.
When we were on the site we played football, beach ball, tent sliding, Dr Who top trumps, news reporters, army and lots of other games.
We spent a day travelling round the Lake District looking at the scenery, which was really good as we got to see lots of hills/mountains and thundering waterfalls. Our trip around took us to Kendal and Keswick. In Kendal we bought Kendal Mint Cake and in Keswick we went to a lake and fed some ducks. Emilie, Jack and Sam were brave enough to let the ducks eat right out of their hands. Daniel and Josh were a little more apprehensive!
On Wednesday, the SUNNY day, we had a day on the steam train and a boat on Lake Windermere. We boarded Repulse, a black steam train, at Haverthwaite and this train took us down to Lakeside – it was a brilliant train ride as there was a really big tunnel and nobody turned the lights on in the carriage so it was very dark!
When we arrived at Lakeside we had a little wait for the boat to arrive, we were all very excited about going on the boat and clambered onto Teal when she arrived. We managed to get seats on the upper deck right near the front – not that we stayed seated for very long as standing and looking at other boats on the lake and playing Pirates with Captain Gez was much more fun!
We had a picnic on the boat just before we arrived in Ambleside. When we got to Ambleside we went to the park and we had some races – this was Mummy’s (Alli’s) way off trying to make us tired but it didn’t work. After an hour we had to go back to catch the boat to Bowness on Windermere.
We got back on the boat and all of us, except Joshua who was asleep, played Pirates again. We disembarked in Bowness and made our way directly to the ice cream shop as it sold 36 different flavours!!
We were quite reserved in our choices going for chocolate and strawberry however the adults among us were a little more adventurous with them selecting black cherry, apple pie, mango and marzipan flavours!
After the fun of eating the ice cream we headed off to the shops to select our evening meal which was to be spaghetti bolognese and more cakes! When we had finished looking at the shops we went to have a sit down to watch all the boats on the lake and to write our postcards to tell our Grandad’s what we were doing on our holiday.
Then it was time for our last trip and game of Pirates on the boat – this time we were Pirates on “Swan” – we arrived back at Lakeside and waited for our connecting train, which to the delight of Daniel, the train enthusiast (Grandad’s influence), was a diesel engine.
Friday was a rainy day so we went to the water park where we could get wet in the swimming pool whilst having fun! We spent hours splashing in the water and sliding down the slides.
Emilie has finally found her confidence and she had a whale of a time (excuse the pun).
Dan and Jack had lots of fun squirting people with the water guns and floating in the currents.
Joshua was a little reserved for a while, which is unlike him, but he eventually remembered that he likes swimming and set off paddling around with his arm bands on!
After 4 hours Mummy (Alli) and Daddy’s (Tim’s) fingers and toes were very wrinkly and we were starting to get a little bit hungry so we got out of the pool and headed off for some well deserved FIsh and CHips from the chippy!!
We loved our holiday and can’t wait to go camping again next year – Mummy (Alli) has one stipulation though and that is that the camp site has to be in the South of France!