Happy Easter

After an early dinner on Thursday Tom, Lily & I drove up to Oak Mountain State Park for the weekend as Friday was a school holiday. We had a lovely day on Friday, the children did lots of biking and we went for a couple of walks through the woods and did lots of relaxing. Everyone else arrived round about 4.30pm and we all got together for drinks....

On Saturday it was Tom's 9th birthday. After opening his presents we went into Birmingham for lunch at The Cheesecake Factory. I had shrimp and angel hair pasta, it was really garlicky and totally delicious and was just what I was needing. After lunch we went back to the cabins and everyone either went horseriding or for a walk or just played around with a ball. I got to sit and read my book and have a nap. Once everyone was all back together again we got out the birthday cake for Tom and then Dorothy brought out some marshmallows so the children all got to make smores by the fire(which we needed because it was unseasonally cold).

Sunday morning it was time to pack up and come home again, Tom was keen to get back to start building his new Lego that he bought when we went shopping and I needed to tidy up the house and get organised for the start of a new week. Nick stayed up at Oak Mountain for a round of golf with Neil, Ross & Anthony so I expect him to appear in an hour or so.