so here we are, we have come down to devon today to visit ben’s gran and mum who we havent seen for while and we are booked into a b an b in barnstaple, which is very nice actually. its an old vicarage. The trip down was a bit of a chore, we planned to leave at 9am, but left at 1015. Not bad going i suppose. had a few hold ups, like loosing the car keys and then a guy walking past the car as we where putting the kids in and asking us for a drink of water…….yes seriously, that happened. Talk about odd.
then the journey was predictably delayed in places and so with stops took us nearly 7 hours. Isaac gave us both a heart attack at the services when he was playing on a climbing frame and then suddenly disappeared…..panic started to set in…but then ben found him in the services going up and down the escalatour. needless to say talks where had about strangers and the danger of wondering off..once my heart rate had returned to normal.
so we are staying in this lovely little b and b, only just got the kids to bed. it seems so unfair making the sleep when they are so wired because they have been let out of the car after so long. But anyway they have just finally hit the hay. we lamented the fact that we couldnt get into the travelinn for this trip but this is actually tons better, the kids have a different room to us and so we dont have to sit in the dark once they have gone to bed. Our one problem was that as we only have one travel cot where would we put Poppy? We decided not to bother with finding another travel cot to bring with us but thought ‘oh she’ll be okay on a bed’
it did make me smile when i told the owner of the bandb that we would just put Poppy on a bed with a couple of pillow on either side of her. She looked fairly shocked…….maybe she hasnt got three kiddies so close together or maybe she is FAR more responsible than us…..
so anyway at this moment poppy is asleep on our bed with me typing away on the laptop, how cool this bandb has a wireless network and ben is watching the TV. Not a lot different from home but we have had the bonding experience of 7 hours in the car to get here….
Praise the Lord that we got here safely and that not too many temper tantrums happened…….by anyone of us…..
