Leia comes to stay

Two explorers

Saturday morning we had a useful morning: the boys went to Settle to get rid of some more junk at the tip, buy beer and sort out swimming (Tom's got to the top of the waiting list for swimming lessons and starts on Monday) whilst I cleaned and tidied the house.  Matt then took a whole load of stuff to the jumble sale, meaning that we got to see the garage floor again - we are almost in the position where we can get a chest freezer - yahoooo.

At lunchtime we were invaded by the Komorovskis.  All 4 of them had made it to us - to experience some country living (they live in very urban Salford).  We rushed lunch down them and then headed up to Ribblehead to do our little circuit walk (with Rosa in Tom's old backpack).  Everyone did well, but unfortunately bad weather found us 30 minutes before the end and poor Rosa lost her patience and made her feelings known.

Break from stone throwing

We headed back home to give Rosa a break and head out of the bad weather.  Tom and Leia had a sleep over together in Tom's room.  We weren't sure how it would go as apparently Leia has a bad record with previous sleep overs.  She was given a good talking to by Adam and Karen and we also pointed out the fact we could hear everything that was going on via the baby monitor.  All this obviously worked as we didn't hear a peep from them.  In fact they were really quiet in the morning too.  Rosa also slept very well, so it was a good night for everyone.

How deep is this puddle?

Sunday was a pretty miserable day.  Leia, Tom, Adam and Matt went to play football on the all weather pitch whilst Karen sorted out Rosa and prepped Sunday dinner.  We then went out in the driving rain (Adam and Leia under protest) for coffee at Neptis.

Funny, as soon as we got there Leia and Adam had a good time - in fact Leia didn't want to leave - it is such a great place for little ones to go to.

By now the rain had stopped so we went home via the park to give the little ones another chance for a play.

We then headed home for a slap up roast meal (even if I do say so myself) - although the smoke alarm kept going off for no reason at all - it was absolutely deafening, made our ears ring.  Little Rosa slept through it all - how do they do it?

The Komorovskis then headed home and we went for another walk around the village - exploring paths we have seen but not been down yet.  Didn't find anything that exciting, but it was nice to try to walk off lunch without going too far.  

Then a lazy evening and early to bed.

A motley crowd