A weekend in Dover

We have just returned from a fun weekend in Dover staying at Auntie Alex, Uncle Jerry and Finley’s house.

We left home at 4pm on Friday and made our way down numerous motorways and over a rather large bridge (the Dartford crossing) and arrived in Dover at 9.30pm – we did have a stop on the way though to grab a bite to eat at the KFC in Newport Pagnall.

When we arrived Finley was in bed and soon we were in bed too, all nicely tucked up in our ready beds. Once again we took over Finley’s bedroom whilst he decamped to his Mum & Dad’s bedroom.

Saturday morning soon dawned and surprisingly we were actually up after Finley, unlike last time when we kept waking everyone up and getting ourselves into trouble! We made our way downstairs when we heard Finley as we couldn’t wait to see him as it had been 6 months since most of us had last seen him, he had grown, as had his hair which Uncle Jerry had shaved off the last time we stayed at their house. We played in the kitchen with Finley and his cars and his footballs whilst Auntie Alex made us all some breakfast (apart from Dan who didn’t want anything).

After breakfast we all took it in turns to get dressed and then we got our shoes on as we decided that as it was such a lovely day that we would walk to the park to have a play on the new playground and to have a game or three of football. On the way to the park Dad popped into the sport shop as we had forgotten to pack one of our footballs, then he popped into the bakers as he had only eaten 2 crumpets for breakfast and was hungry again, Dan was pleased with the visit to the bakers as it meant he could have a cheesy puff for breakfast, as he was now VERY hungry.

We eventually arrived at the park and Uncle Jerry kicked the football right over a rather large fence! Luckily there was a gap under part of the fence that was small enough for Emilie & Josh to crawl under and retrieve the new football.

We all had a quick play on the park before the boys decided that enough was enough and it was time for football. Mum can’t join in with the football at the moment so she went on the swings with Emilie. The swings were rather conveniently situated right next to the football pitches so Mum & Emilie were able to watch us play whilst they had a good swing.

After an hour or so we decided we should head back home as we were all getting a little peckish, the walk home was a bit quicker as most of it was down hill! We got home and quickly jumped into the cars and headed to The Duke of York for a spot of lunch. As we were finishing lunch Auntie Alex phoned Uncle Chris so that he & our very little cousin Kimberly could come across and see us.

Shortly after we arrived home Uncle Chris and Kimberly arrived along with a lot of equipment including car seats, pushchairs etc. etc. it looked like Uncle Chris was manouvering a small army not a tiny 6 month old. Kimberly had grown since we had seen her in October but she is still very small as she keeps getting coughs and colds and ear infections – she only weighs 13lbs at the moment. Dad kept telling Uncle Chris to give Kimberly to Mum as she needs the practice!! Uncle Chris commented that he was sure that Dad would be needing the practice too!

When Uncle Chris had gone we got ready for bed and then we all settled down on the sofa to watch the film Arthur & The Invisibles, we all enjoyed the film, although Finley did fall asleep about 30 minutes into it. When the film finished we went to bed and left the grown ups chatting away.

On Sunday morning we all had a nice lie in and once again we all convened in the kitchen once we heard that Finley was up. We had our breakfast, got dressed and then headed off to Whistable as we were going out for lunch with some other family members.

We were going to meet up with (mad) Cousin Ellie – who we know and love, but we were also going to meet her Sister – fran, her Dad – Uncle John & her Mum – Auntie Fiona for the first time. We were quite quiet when we arrived at the house but within 5 minutes we were all chatting away and Emilie had made friends with Fran. As usual Dan was sitting as near to Ellie (practically on her lap) as he could. After a quick chat we made our way to a restaurant in Whitstable where we all tucked into some delicious food, we had a lovely time and we were very well behaved (Mum & Dad told us we were, so we must have been!)

After stuffing ourselves silly we decided that we would like to have a walk down to & along the beach to walk off some of lunch and to have a quick game of football by the sea!

After a nice long walk we said our goodbyes & made our way back to Dover. When we got back the boys played Mushroom Wars on the playstation & Emilie drew pictures. Sadly it was soon time for bed again.

Monday morning arrived which sadly meant it was time for us to pack up all our stuff and head back North, but not before we had a final breakfast with Finley. Dad packed up the car and we made a quick visit to see Grandad David and then we paid a quick visit to Uncle Chris to say goodbye to him & Kimberly.

We then got on our way back home, the trip home was a lot quicker – we were home in 4 hours and that was with a toilet stop!

Once again we had a lovely weekend with our cousins and we can’t wait to see them both again.

Thank you to Auntie Alex & Uncle Jerry for letting us stay with them.