As Blokey is off this week we all enjoy a lie in bed. Then the children spend most of the day alternating between home and the park.
The next day we go tubing at the ski slope with our home ed friends ..as always it was a hoot.
I will not smile..a little smirk crept in though.
The next day we went to Kinver stooping off for lunch at a new place to us, Harley's Smokehouse. The portions are massive. It's a Spanish fusion type of place and we will definitely go back.
Owen went in to a daze at the awesomeness of his dessert. Despite attacking it all with relish he still needed a doggie bag. There were dipping sauces of chocolate, toffe, raspberry and ice cream to accompany his churros and mini doughnuts ..can't quite remember the name of those ..something beginning with B.
Sam loved his slab of brownie with chocolate sauce..he thought the ice cream was the best he has ever had and ate the lot.
We visited the alpacas out the back of the restaurant.
Next we went to Kinver Edge to visit the Rock Houses.
We learnt about the history of the houses and the families that lived here.
Sam by the well. One of the women who lived here was a washer woman..imagine carrying laundry up all those steps to the house!?
There were beautiful views across the valley
The National Trust have restore the houses to the Victorian period.
We saw some of these fires in the Coalbrookdale museum too, so it was good to see some similar here in context to the houses.
Very cosy inside and surprisingly light.
Sam tried on one of the hats hanging up in the bedroom.
Blokey and I decided we could quite happily live in the houses.
The layout is much more spacious than some of the houses we visited at Blists Hill and the industrial areas of Ironbridge at the time.
View across the valley from the houses.
That's not a wooden beam but where the owners used the cave entrance to build their house.
The National Trust is also restoring the cottage gardens too.
One of the bedrooms.
Lots of Victorian housewares and goods.
Sam enjoying a little rest
Another view from a different house.
The children were intrigued and a little appalled by all the graffiti carvings.
The tea rooms where walkers refuelled.
We found a strange hobbit hole too.
We walked all round the woodland.
And climbed trees
Even if they needed a little help.
Inside the caves.
Then a very long walk back to the car, where Owen thought we were trying to kill him.
Lots of interesting stops along the way to play at.
And thankfully back to the car with an exhausted Owen..luckily I had had the foresight to make extra drinks available for the thirsty walkers to have on the drive back.
We popped into town today, bought some fruit and veg then played at the park.
Owen tried a friends roller skates.
With mixed results and took landing on his bum a few times quite well.
Sam hung off the climbing frame and played tag, charging around.
Owen and I had a walk round before heading for home.
A visit to Nanny and Grandads on Saturday ..Nanny is 77 this week, so we took her present and played for a while.
Inbetween the tradition of playing dominoes, there was the tradition of measuring how much taller they have got and cuddle time. Despite Owen being nearly as tall as my Mum, he still managed to squeeze on her knee. ❤️
Since the children decided they didn't want to carry on with their swimming lessons, we got up early and went for a for a family swim together. Sam was very excited indeed to be back to this familiar routine of us all swimming together, he also loved the new googles I bought him. Owen worked extra hard on his diving and lengths and we all felt we had, had a great workout.
Afterwards we popped into Milkshakes and Oatcakes for breakfast, it's was still very busy but we finally managed to grab a table and order without queuing out of the door.
Later the boys played out with their local friends and went to bed tired and happy. We will miss Blokey tomorrow when he goes back to work.
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