This week, we had a special time celebrating Teresa's birthday and the boys' birthday the day after. To celebrate we went camping near Weymouth at a farm. We drove down early on Monday, and stopped off at Upwey to have lunc at a water garden. The gardens were idylic and very relaxing.
We moved on to East Fleet and quickly got the tent up. However, the inflatable beds weren't so easy, but with a little help from an electric air-pump we were well on our way. As we were putting the tent up a couple of girls from our neighbouring tent told us they were packing up due to a storm coming our way that night. We thought "yeah, right!" and blindly carried on setting up camp.
The boys were very good all day, allowing Teresa to choose exactly what she wanted, and calling her the "birthday girl". However, they were to use exactly the same claim the next day on their birthday, when Joe received £5 and felt the need to go to the beach to visit the Snail rides with his £5 note ("It's my choice" he said, when we tried to talk him out of it)
On Monday night, we went out for the boys' first ever sit-down curry. Well, that's no strictly true as they had gone in to one before, but just never ate anything. They were really hungry and ate loads up. We were a bit worried about whether our tent could take the strain later on though!
We then spent a lovely evening wandering down Weymouth Sea front, looking at the lights coming on and watching the people on the fun-fair rides.
Eventually it was time to call it a day and head back to the tent. During the night, a thunderstorm came our way with lightning and thunder, and heavy rain. However, our 10 year old tent did us proud and didn't let anything in, and we were still dry by the morning.
That morning, Teresa cooked a slap up egg and beans breakfast and we headed into town where we had a drink and mooched around the seafront. Portland Bill lighthouse was only a few miles away, and so we paid a trip there. The boys weren't allowed up the lighthouse, due to height restrictions, but they were happy to go rock-pooling instead.
That night, we headed back home and had a pizza in pizza-hut, which again, the boys lapped up.
Everyone came over in the evening and we all had a good time opening the presents.
Pics to follow soon.
Posted by adam at August 5, 2004 10:09 PM