So - this morning - Connor was picked up by Karl, the plasterer and went off to work - hoping he will get back in time for the England game. I went off to do the park run - even though the forecast today today is 29 degrees and it was already really hot by 9am. It was tough in the heat!! I won't have beat any times, but it won't be my worse time either. The results are not up yet - but I reckon it was 32 minutes something. Its weird because I don't really enjoy it at all whilst I am doing it - but as soon as it ends you think Yeah!!! lol.
UPDATE - my time was 32.27 which is not bad considering the heat! Here are a couple of pics. I really really hope that one day I'll compare park run pics to this and think - wow haven't I lost a lot of weight lol. I look so chunky!!!
I then went into Tesco and was very appreciative of the fridges - spent too long standing there making the most of the cool air!! I needed quite a bit because we have Helen and paul coming around later and plan on a BBQ and to watch football - go in hot tub and all that, then tomorrow we plan on going up to tarr steps in the hills for a walk, picnic and a swim in the river!
So - I'll update later - hopefully to tell you what an awesome weekend I've had! lol
So!! I am writing this on Monday morning - after an awesome weekend! lol.
We got tidy, beds changed and shopping in etc.and helen and paul came around at about 2.30pm - ready for the England game at 3pm. So - we watched England - had nachos at half time - ENGLAND WON so we are now in the semi-final - one more game and then could be in the final!! We are usually so crap that it makes a nice change!! Our TV - or the signal from BT dropped for the last 5 minutes of extra time - so that was a bit crap!! Andy was rather annoyed!! But we won!
We then went into the garden and threw around an american football - me, Connor and Emily, Andy and Paul - and helen and Eloise went int he hot tub - the weather is still scorching hot!! After a while i got in the hot tub too - had been int here about 3 minutes when little May did a running jump straight into the hot tub!! I assume she thought the lid was on! She went straight under the water! then scrambled/scratched her way up the side of the inflatable hot tub to get out and ran away up te garden!! I got out to see if she was okay - and she was obviously soaked!! Then - Helen says from the hot tub....have you got a puncture repair kit? great. Been in the £400 hot tub twice and its now inflating.....we tried a few things to fix it but as it was full of air the pressure was too much so we had to get out and let it go down!
We then came inside and played pool - and did our usual thing - drink, laugh, win, lose....until bed time!
Sunday - me and Helen were up first as usual - Helen normally quite a bit before me! We started getting ready for a day out - getting a picnic ready etc. At 10am we made sure everybody else was up or getting up. We were almost ready when I realised than Connor and Emily, still in their PJ's were making waffles and bacon - we'd all grabbed a piece of toast or cereal - and there they are mixing batter etc. lol In the end they didn't hold us up lol.
Off we went to Tarr Steps - Exmoor. The drive turns into very narrow roads - where you just dread somebody coming the other way as one of you has to find somewhere to shuffle over so the other can get past! It was weird because we did not head off in the same way I thought we had gone last time - and as we got closer I thought - this is not the way we came last time! Then I realised - we were approaching Tarr Steps from the opposite direction which meant - no car park - nowhere to put the car at all - unless we managed to cross the river - through the river that is! Last time we had been there, in March, we had seen land rovers crossing the river - but we were in a Mercedes! We had a discussion with helen and Paul at the top of the road leading down to the river - where it said - no parking and no turning and decided we'd go for it! Helen and Paul have a jeep-type car and made it across fine - and then we decided we could do it if we moved a sign and went in to the edge....Andy drove and I watched lol - but he did it!! We then had a hassle getting a parking space - but eventually we were sorted!
We had an amazing walk upstream in the sun with amazing views - up to a part of the river where it opened up a bit and the water was a bit wider and deeper. We sat and had a picnic and then wanted to brave the cold water. The last time I had been there I wanted so badly to be able to swim in this place - I was really happy that I'd come back to do it! It was very cold at first - but once in - perfectly fine - not cold at all!! We all got in - although Helen and Eloise sat on a rock rather than swimming around and Eloise started to get freaked out by the flies - they were very annoying! Then she said OW it bit me and started crying, Helena nd Paul tried to reason with her to ignore the bugs which is what really bothers her - but in the end Helen got out with her.
I had just got out to take some pics at this point - so here is the scene lol....
I swan around for a while - dead chuffed that I was in a natural river - then decided - okay - I've done that - I'm getting out! The others played around throwing a little american football for a while.
Then we all chilled out in the sun for a while. Bliss.
After a while - we were getting thirsty and running out of warm drinks - we decided to head back and get a drink before leaving...
Got to admit - I had the best pint of cider ever - I was just in the right mood and thirsty enough - for it to go down very well!!!
We then said our farewells to Helen, paul and Eloise and we all headed home.
We got back - and showered etc. and just chilled. Connor and Emily went off to their part of the house - and we watched some stuff - got take-out AGAIN....we then realised that May still hadn't come in so we went looking for her and found her stuck up a tree crying!! To cut a long story short - Andy ended up half way up the tree with me handing him the step ladders - we got may to come down so far - then we moved the step ladders again and she came down the rest of the way! This was all done in the dark by torch light surrounded by moths and other evil creepy crawlies! So this weekend alone may has landed in a pool of water, popped the spa, and got stuck in a tree!
Anyway - we then watched a film - and then it was time for bed! An excellent weekend!