The Buckingham Blog

We're Baaaaaack! 

We arrived home on Tuesday night all exhausted from 2 weeks in Cyprus staying with James' parents Coral and Chad.  We've all had a great time.  I expected to "do a blog" last night about it, but there are so many photos that I spent the evening sorting those out (some of which are unfortunately corrupt) and naming them all.  Today has been a nightmare trying to put them into a slideshow, I have literally spent HOURS doing them & my laptop has been playing up.  So a few photos and slideshow of them all below.  

The flight out was great, the kids were really well behaved.  The day after we arrived we went to a place called Governers Beach.  Kory and Krystal loved maing sandcastles and Kory eventually got the courage to play in the sea, but was scared of the seaweed! 

We ate out about half of the nights that we were there, a chinese, an italian, James and I got a "get out of jail free" card one evening and went to an indian, we took the kids to McDonalds one night and the rest of the time it was good old Cypriot food - that is half a cow to meat eaters, and a plate of halloumi and salad to the non meat eaters!! 

Krystal's 7th tooth decided that on holiday would be a good time to come through, so she was a bit of a pain food wise.  Normally she eats like a piglet, but she wasn't having any of it there.  I suppose it was the heat too, poor thing.   Kory was mostly well behaved as usual though!! 

In the second week we went back to Governors Beach, this time deciding to take a picnic - instead of waiting ages for lunch which didn't go down well with the kids - this was an instant hit with Krystal.

We went up the Troodos Mountain for another picnic on Saturday where there was a nice wee park for the kids to play in. 

Other than that, we hung about the house just chilling out a lot, went to the shops, ate nice food in the house and went to Coral and Chad's friends' house for a meal.  I'm the only one who actually looks like I've been anywhere near the sun, though Krystal has got a mini tan on her arms!!

The flight home wasn't as fun as the one going...Krystal was a total pain in the bum.  A combination of the tooth, tiredness and boredom.  She didn't want anything - food, drin, dummy, drawing, teddy etc.  She wanted to walk up, but couldn't!!  Thankfully there was another child making a lot of noise across the ailse so anyone who didn't like it wasn't in view for us to see eye rolling!! 

Thanks again to Coral and Chad for putting us up (or is that putting up with us??!!) and all the other stuff.

Now I'm off to deal with my holiday blues again and put some insect stuff on the 15 bites I have on my feet and ankles that are driving me bonkers!

Julie.xx