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[DawnDenise]

More fantastic update and great photos Cheryl! Annabel's backpack. Looking forward to more!

[lauren-roxy]

Another great update Cheryl and the pictures of the maze are wonderful!! Can't wait to read more!!!

[chezp]

Part eight: Mark takes on the knights and why didn’t I buy those plants when I saw them?!

Our lunch seemed to go on forever – I think we were all too busy talking to be eating! Joshua and Ethan headed off for their game of football, while we all just sat and relaxing, before eventually diving into the Princess cake that Annabel and Andy had brought with them – well, we had to have a touch of Disney somewhere!



Now that photo was carefully posed so that you couldn’t see the damage to it… but in this next shot, with Eeyore eyeing it up – the damage (on the right!) is all too clear:



Sadly, it’s true – the Princess cake didn’t enjoy the drive down too much but I can tell you that it tasted Not long after indulging in the cake, we put away some of the picnic stuff and went to sit in the sun on the grass. Again, whenever the sun went in, it got cold very quickly. Thank goodness Isabel had a load of blankets with her, as the grass was still a little damp You can tell who the mum amongst us was!

We carried on chatting and I carried on taking photos:


The view back to the ticket booth

Paul enjoying a game of football (soccer to you guys! with Joshua and Ethan

Shortly after this photo was taken, the game of football stopped and Paul was eventually persuaded by Joshua and Ethan to go off to the shop at the entrance. I kept thinking that I really should go with them to go and get my plants, but I didn’t really want to move, so ended up staying where I was. The three of them were gone an alarmingly long time, which as we pointed out, meant that there were obviously purchases being made. And sure enough there were – as we saw when we spotted them walking back towards us! Ethan had a shield and sword in hand and they were both clutching medieval knights’ outfits, which they both put on before returning to their game of football – this time with Mark taking on the knights!




It was great fun watching them and it certainly seemed to exhaust Mark – oh well, he had fun, even it meant he’d be too exhausted to do any work on the house when we got back. I’m sure that was probably his plan…

All too soon, it was time to bid everyone goodbye. I couldn’t believe where the time had gone, but it was already 3.20 and I knew that everyone else had a longer journey home than we did and I didn’t want to hold anyone up, although we’d had a wonderful day and I didn’t really want it to end. We’d already talked about the idea of meeting up again and come up with tentative plans for the weekend of Saturday 6 or Sunday 7 August – for more details of what we were thinking of doing, check out this post and do let us know if you’ll be joining us!

We walked back via the shop – and wouldn’t you know it? – the plants I wanted were all sold out now. I couldn’t believe it, as it was the only place so far that I’d seen these particular plants available and I was hoping to get them planted out in the garden as soon as I got home. Boy, did Mark hear about that for the next few minutes – in fact, I don’t think he heard about anything else… especially as all the shops were about to close for the day! To try and make it up to me, he took me to a nearby nursery, but they didn’t have what I wanted – and their prices were extortionate, so home it was… and back to trying to put the house in order…!

Oh – and a week later – I did finally get the plants I wanted, so all’s well that ends well.

That’s it for this trip report – I look forward to seeing everyone at the next one in August!

[lablady]

I loved your TR! It must be great to live near so much history! Most old buildings in Alaska aren't even 50 yrs old!

[stretch2864]

Great trip report! I've really enjoyed all of your photos! (or Mark's photos ) I'm really hoping we will be able to join all of you for the next PP meet in August as it looks like this one was a lot of fun!

[LizardCop]

Another great trip report Cheryl. It loooks like everyone had lots of fun, ecxept for Mark about the plants

for sharing it with us

[Colexis Mom]

Great finish Cheryl And what a great Princess Cake I'm glad you all had a great time! Your pictures as usual were fantastic

[lauren-roxy]

Thanks for sharing a really great trip report Cheryl!! The pictures were gorgeous!! The princess cake looks very pretty. I'm glad you were able to get your flowers!! Can't wait for another trip, then I get to read another trip report!!

[karmic]

Great report! Wonderful pictures! I really enjoyed reading it!

[JulieandChris]

Great trip report. The cake looked lovely and I bet it tasted fine too!
Pleased to read you got your flowers in the end.

Julie.

[GoofyMom]

That sounded like it was a lovely day! I really loved looking at all your photos, too. I'm glad you were able to take so many!

[2princessmom]

Thanks for sharing your wonderful day! I sure wish we had the castles and history over here. Can't wait to hear about your next adventure!

[BabieeMelly]

Great Tr, the castle looks s gorgeous It sounds like you all had a really nice day, and I'm glad you found the plants you wanted

[Annabel]

Thanks for posting about the day Cheryl, great job. We had a great time with you guys and look forward to doing it again. I'll post the photos again later on as I am having problems using my photoshop program to resize them

[wdwlovers]

Awesome report! I am in love with this castle!! Thank you guys for sharing your day with us here in the states.