Swanage Day 3

The morning started off slowly with Sam being the biggest culprit in the "go slow at getting up" stakes. I went into the living room chanting, "Wakey wakey sea slug" as he was all coccooned in his duvet. Gemima quite happily joined in the attempt at waking him up!



Aaron went out the back to bring in all the washing as we needed it to go swimming and Gemima drew her impression of him on the window (look closely):


Sam exercised some serious bad dress sense (or maybe he is auditioning to be the next Jay):


We popped down to mum's caravan and then all went to the pool for a morning swim. A good time was had by all although as we had started late we didn't get a long session. Following our swim it was back to mum's caravan for brunch. Toni and I went to our caravan to change our shoes while two sulky boys did the washing up.

After some minor huffings and a teenage couple bickering we headed off and took a steam train to Corfe Castle. We popped into a cafe for a drink but there were still a lot of miserable kids with us :o(

The castle:


The crazy gang:


Aaron, Gemima, Toni and mum:


After various new strops and huffs our party fragemented so I want up high into the keep and used my super digital zoom to catch a photo of the Corfe Castle Grumping Committee:


Gemima started getting a bit whingy and grumpy and Sophie decided to pull strange faces to try and make her laugh (which seemed to work):


Things cheered up briefly as we headed back.

Toni and I on the train on the way back:


Sam riding his very own train:


We popped into Co-op to get some bits on the way back and then Toni, mum, Sophie and Gemima got a taxi back to the caravan whist Shane, Sam, Aaron and I walked back (but via the chinese take away). Sam still wasn't very happy and opted out of ordering and food as he said he wasn't hungry, very unlike him.

We had dinner and then things just seemed to explode, lots of silly comments being taken the wrong way before Sam just took off and left the caravan. After a few minutes I went searching for him. When I found him we went for a really long walk and had an excellent chat and managed to sort out some issues that he had going on in his head at the moment (nothing really to do with the holiday thankfully). One of them I can sort out immediately which pleased him and the others we can work on so he seemed much happier.

We returned to the caravan and I made him something to eat before we had a round of Chase The Ace and then all went off to bed. Plan is to get up early tomorrow so we can get a decent swimming session in.