Back to the motherland....

8th July

...for 5 whole weeks (well 2 for Ste, but that was long enough for him!).  Surprisingly we took the sunshine with us and as always was great to catch up with everyone.  Highlights were a certain wedding, seeing Ste's parents new place, crazy golf with dad, a fun trip to Cambourne, a trip to Wales and, of course, Harry Potter world!!!

Boiling hot.....

3rd July

.....again!  You know its been hot when the temperature in the car read 85F and you think, "oh, what a lovely cool day!"  It was an intense heatwave.

Our ballerina girl.....

29^th June

….well kind of!  She looked the part but she has already decided that ballet is not for her and this will be her one and only performance!  Still, it was a fun show.

Yosemite.....

24th June

......again!  This time with M and R.  All good fun!

Burned and cold, filthy and drinking champagne!

We spent the first weekend of the holidays camping on the Russian River.  Glorious weather, excited kids, good company made for a lovely weekend.  We spent the Saturday kayaking down the river - being outside in the sunshine all day left us feeling more than a little toasty.  But as it had been an 100f day inland the fog started to descend at 6pm and the jumpers came out.  Marshmallows and wine round the campfire and everyone slept soundly.  Sunday morning was spent tearing around the campground in little pedal cars following by a trip to a champagne winery in our stinky camping state on the way home.  All good fun :)