december, 2006

december 29, 2006

hmmm... it's not like i didn't have any access to a computer during our fantastic trip to the uk/france, but i didn't seem to have the inclination to write anything. i was definitely in full holiday mode! fortunately i made toby and aly both wrote a journal each day and toby has agreed to read the highlights to me so here goes:

• north wales to visit my mum at work, eat an indian buffet and go ice skating [toby went to an open hockey practice too]
• london to have cheesy bus and boat tour [on which i learnt lots of stuff and we ran into a cyclist who was fine but a little peeved from what i can gather], see helen and go on the london eye with kellie
• liverpool to visit the world museum, liverpool anglican cathedral and maritime museum
• wirral ellesmere port boat museum and cheshire oaks outlet, various golfing activities, christmas parties, visit with santa and a talking christmas tree in a garden centre!, pantomime in port sunlight, scooter riding, park visits and fish and chips, ice cream, dad's 60th birthday party in parkgate, spaceport and a movie theatre to see happy feet in birkenhead with aunty di, mini monsters house with ana, heather and michael [also went to a loud, but great, children's party at their house], arrowe park to take a choking sascha to hospital [various poke-around-in-his-throat tests to follow - possibly a hiatus hernia]
• chester for an open top bus tour [chilly but very interesting], chester cathedral, roman amphitheatre site and visitors centre, and tons of christmas shopping in the most beautiful shops in the world
• oxfordshire to visit sascha's uncle mike and family, walked and shopped around oxford, [also a trip to get the punctured tire repaired on the way home
• deepest darkest buckinghamshire to see dave, octavia and iona [their very cute and sleepy 3 month old]
• berkshire to see sara, jim, matthew and sophie
• paris, france to see the eeifel tower, a boat trip down the seine and spend a couple of days at disneyland, including rides on a double decker train and the eurostar.

and now for some photos which sascha kindly webified for me while we were there...

clock in chester

bus tour of chester

ellesmere port boat museum, wirral [making our own narrow boat]

ice skating in deeside, wales

outside the maritime museum, liverpool

in the shipwrecked exhibit, maritime museum, liverpool

liverpool world museum, lovesport exhibit

new brighton beach, wirral

krispy kreme, osford castle

house on mike's golf course, banbury

visiting santa, neston, wirral

ice cream in parkgate, wirral

any hoo.. we're now back home after a wonderful journey [as far as 10.5hr journey's go]. the children were great [even better since i was sitting across the aisle from them!] and we got away without being charged the $160 we owed in excess baggage [and we still had to leave various presents at my mum and dad's house]. i worked yesterday but now we have the next 4 days to ourselves before real life catches up with us. colin and nikki are coming back from their christmas in hawaii with pete and dani on the 1st - hopefully ready to do christmas all over again with us!

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