The sun has got his hat on .....

The kids have been off for half term this week and the weather has been glorious so we have been out and about making the most of it.

On Bank Holiday Monday we went to Osterley Park in Middlesex making use of our National Trust membership.

Noah enjoyed dressing up 19th Century style!

The girls posing in the Great Meadow

Tuesday was a washout and the kids rediscovered all of Noah's Thomas tracks and had great fun setting them up and making a video with Eden's camera!

Wednesday was glorious and we headed over to Virginia Waters to finish off the rest of the geocache series. We decided to do the full circuit of the lake for the first time ever - 4.5 miles and the kids didn't even moan once even Erin who got several blisters.

Proof it was 4.5 miles!

The Cascade

Part of The Ruins



Erin at one of the cache sites

A couple of cabbages ... with Eden and Noah!

Another family portrait!

The Lake

On Thursday we had stuff to do in town and the dentist but as it was such a lovely evening we went for a dinner picnic at Marsh Meadow in Cookham. We hid our 2nd mag. nano cache too!

View from the cache

Friday was another gorgeous day and we decided to go to Mudeford. It didn't start too well - it took a bit longer than planned as we went wrong twice (!) and there was alot of traffic. However, the kids had a great time crabbing once we got a good spot and spent several hours reeling them in. We forgot to bring any bait so used some prawns from the lunch salad!

Erin did well with this bigger basket but Eden soon caught up when we were given some squid by some departing crabbers. The crabs loved it!

One of over 50! We had to keep letting the crabs go because we only had small buckets.

With the last of the days catch.

It's great fun but you have to feel sorry for those poor crabs being

constantly dragged out of the water.

Mudeford Quay from Avon Beach

Thats all for now. I've been gardening today, a bit late I know, so no pics - well until everything starts growing that is.