Weekend in Manchester

This weekend we headed down to Salford to see Adam, Karen, Leia and Rosa.

Yummy steamed buns

Our weekends always follow the same routine when we go down there.  First stop Wing Yip for Asian food shop, then to The Glamorous for interesting Chinese lunch and then to Go Outdoors for a look around the tent department.

All went well.  Tom ate up well at The Glamorous - in fact he got lots of lovely glances from the waitresses as once again we were the only all white family in the restaurant and Tom was the only white child!  We stuffed ourselves with the dim sum, steamed buns and other things on offer, including one suspect sausage thing that certainly wasn't a sausage but some grainy type thing with peanuts in it - oops.

See - saw

Once we had had our romp around Go Outdoors we headed to the Komorovskis.  Wow!  Rosa has grown up big time - a proper little girl and very beautiful.  I wouldn't have recognised her.   As usual Adam and Karen were playing tag team parenting.  Karen had just been away for a couple of days and got home about 5 mins after we arrived, Adam was off to Zimbabwae on Sunday afternoon.  Adam and Matt went into town to collect food for the evening meal, whilst me, Karen & the kids enjoyed sunning ourselves in the garden.  We then headed to a play park to stretch our legs and enjoy the last of the sun.

Happy families

Table for two please

Not much really happened during our stay in Manchester, Tom and Leia played beautifully - not a cross word between them all weekend which meant that we basically didn't see them or have to manage them.  We were with the adults having adult conversations whilst they were in their own space playing.  It was divine.  Rosa, unfortunately wasn't feeling too well and was very grumbly - we found out why on Sunday morning as her ears started to show a discharge - she had a bad infection.  So bad that Adam and Karen took her to the walk in centre, so we took Leia and Tom out for lunch.  They were so happy in each others company that they ended up having a table for 2 and ordered for themselves -  we very much weren't wanted.

We returned to the Komorovskis house dropped off Leia who had to do her homework so we headed home ourselves.  A lovely, relaxing weekend.