Brandon's Easter Valencia School Trip

The first week of Brandon's Easter half term has been exciting for him as he was off sunning himself in Valencia for a Geography school trip. It has been such an amazing experience for him and judging from the pictures and what he has told us, he had an absolutely incredible time. I won't add my usual commentary to each picture as these are all Brandon's pictures and I wasn't there. I have really just dumped them on the blog as a future memory for him to look back on.

It has been lovely to have him back home though as I am not sure he has been eating and drinking very well. He took £150 plus some money on his card which was supposed to be €30 a day for lunch plus some spending money. Breakfast and dinner were included with the hotel - but he never got up early enough for breakfast and he didn't eat much lunch as he spent all his money on a Jack Jones track suit and a Nike Jordan t-shirt and cap!!!!!!!!!

Anyay during their trip they had a guided tour of Albufera and Rice company, visited the Museo de las Fallas and Las Arenas beach, had a trip the world famous science and hydro and oceanography centre, a Buffet lunch and sightseeing of the Jardin de Turia and visited Sant Joseph caves for a boat excursion.

Mid trip we also received a really nice email from the trips lead teacher saying how proud she was of all the kids and how well they had all behaved and were a credit to the school and the parents and that she couldn't be there with a nicer group of kids. Anyway here is the dump of all the pictures we received from the trip.

Easter Trail at Hyde Hall

Yesterday me and Holly headed over to Hyde Hall in the afternoon to meet up with some of the family and to complete the Easter Egg trail. The trail entailed using clues to search out 10 giant decorated Easter Eggs and in return Holly earned a chocolate cookie dough bunny sweet. We only spent about2 hours over there and kind of raced around the hunt finishing at the play area where Holly spent most of her time with Rory. Still it was nice to get outside and see signs of spring at last. Holly also bought 3 new plants for in her bedroom (to out door her brothers plastic plants) and we also bought some new herb plants for the garden.

The final Easter Egg on the trail which was located conveniently at the play area.

Holly's New 24" Wheel Bike

Over the last year it had become clear that Holly was rapidly outgrowing her old bike which was given to her by Leyla. So I have been on the search for a replacement and earlier this week one of the women from Crossit Rayleigh was setting off travelling Asia and wanted a quick sale on her hardly used bike. So we managed to get an absolute bargain and picked up a bigger bike with 24" wheels in a nice purple/silver colour for just £20 and it even has 15 gears and front suspension (bargain). Even better we managed to sell her old bike for £20 so the new one was effectively free!

Holly's first ride on her new 24" wheel bike.

Off she sets, no problems with the bigger, heaver bike.

We need to buy her a new bell and bike stand for it, but otherwise the bike is as new.