Christmas Weekend

Tom and Isabella

On Friday we had planned a Friday night at the Game Cock with the Shults and Bickerstaffs.  Unfortunately Jack came out in a rash, meaning the Bickerstaffs couldn't make it.  Boo!  Oh hum, we still went and we had a great time.  Tom and Isabella gave us inpromptu performances of their Christmas plays - it was very cute.

Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MukB8dcwm2M&spfreload=10

On Saturday, Matt headed off to Leeds for the day to meet up with some translator friends for Christmas dinner.  He offered for us to come with him and then look round the shops etc whilst he was having his dinner, but I figured shopping in Leeds prior to Christmas would he horrible so opted to stay in Ingleton.  (Good choice, Matt lasted all of 5 minutes in the shops and said it was horrible!). Tom and I had a very very lazy day, starting with a very lazy morning in bed, reading books and playing with soft toys.  I think we finally got up around 9.30, had breakfast and then slobbed around until we finally got dressed just before lunchtime.  Haven't done that for a very long while and it was wonderful.

Monster Dinner

We left the house in search of lunch and decided to go to the Falls Cafe - somewhere we never normally go.  We had the place to ourselves at the start, so I had a good chat with Sharon before ordering.  Tom went for a sausage sandwich with extra mushrooms (we were having a mushroom heavy day as Daddy was away) whilst I had my usual jacket with beans and cheese.  We then had a walk around the village, buying more mushrooms at the co-op for tea before retuning home to watch Aladdin ready for tomorrow.  Tom did quite well for him, managing to sit still for most of it, although he did cry during the scary bit - bless him.

Sunday we had a lazy morning and then headed into Lancaster for lunch in a pub.  Very nice it was too.  Tom had a child's roast dinner - it was almost as big as him, and he still managed to eat most of it - just leaving a couple of sprouts and half a roast potato.  We then headed to The Grand Theatre for PANTO.  What did we see - why Aladdin of course!  It was quite an amateur production, but that didn't really matter, all the good things were there: girl playing lead boy, man playing lead woman, a good villain, hiss hiss, boo, boo, comedy policemen etc etc.  We went Fred and his family, Finn and his, Matthew and his and Charlie and his so it was a good group outing and they all had fun (although they ended up on their Mother's knees at some point)  Not bad for £8 a ticket.  Think we will be back next year.