Brimham Rocks & Tired Cub

Clambering

So Monday dawned another lovely day.  We packed up, paid our £1.50 for electricity and headed on our way back west.

First stop was Brimham Rocks.  Now I had heard of this place, and had assumed it was one or two rock formations to admire.  Oh no, I was wrong!  It was tens of rock formations, all of which were accessible for clambering on - no fences, no health and safety - all at your own risk.  Fantastic.  Our inner children came out and we clambered all over.

It reminded us of Dartmoor - but Dartmoor on steroids - think all the Dartmoor tors in one area and some gigantic.  It was fun and we will have to bring Tom back here with a friend to play with (he's always braver with a friend).  We had lunch sat on top of one of the formations, admired lots of different views and then went in search of an ice-cream.  They only had 3 flavours: vanilla, raspberry ripple or toffee, none of which either of us like, so we decided to head to Pateley Bridge to see if they had better there.

View from a rock

We got ourselves parked in the car park which was extremely cheap and wondered up the high street where we found some ice-cream: cherry for me and chocolate for Matt.  We then headed down to the river for a stroll.  Did I mention it was hot, really hot?  It was good to be in the shade for a while. We decided to head down stream, which just happened to be where the Cub camp was and we spied across the river to see if we could find our little man. We found him and watched him for a while, not up to much, larking around, was good to see him having fun.  We carried on and did a small circuit before heading to a park for a sit on a bench until it was time to go and pick him up.

Balancing act

Tom spotted us straight away in our car and we got a happy wave.  We walked over to him and he launched himself at me.  I got an almighty hug.  He put so much energy into it, he forgot his other parent who got a little upset at being ignored (I would have been upset too!)  He had missed us and he was glad to be going home, but he had had a great time.

All the children were quite subdued.  They all looked completely knackered.  We thought they would be excited, but no.  Tom could only say 'yes' or 'no' to each question.  He then said he was really thirsty so we stopped to get him a drink.  Immediately afterwards he fell into a deep sleep.  He slept all the way home.

When he woke up he was very floppy.  I headed to the Co-op and bought some ready meals and we slobbed out on the sofa and watched the sumo.  Bad news, our favourite didn't win but he has got promoted.  Tom asked to go to bed early and so he did.  Maybe we will get some news about what he did tomorrow...

Nice to get him back x