The Buckingham Blog

On Friday evening Coral & Chad arrived for the weekend, accompanied by Jasmine (our niece - James' sister, Kelly's daughter)  As it was quite late the kids were in bed, and we didn't stay up much past their arrival!  

When we got up on Saturday morning, Kory was delighted with Jazzy being here.  I thought he might be shy, but nope, off they went to play.  We had a bit of a lazy morning in the house and garden, then in the afternoon we went  to the beach with the intention of going to Rambo's.  However when we arrived it was absolutely mobbed and they were not allowing any more people in.  

So we went across the amusement park to something Kory has never been to before called the "Foam Factory" Basically it's 3 floors of fancy machines sucking and blowing foam balls up and down collecting them in big buckets at the top and randomly tipping them all down again!  At first Kory was terrified as it's so so noisy, but he saw Jazzy getting involved in it all and he was soon fine with it.

We then headed over to Jimmy Chungs for our dinner.  Unusually Krystal didn't eat much (though maybe not so unusual, she seems to do it when we're with other people making us look stupid saying she eats constantly!!)  but everyone else had a right good feed.  We ended up getting a free round of drinks as they took FOREVER to bring me my main course, everyone else had finished their puddings!!

I thought by the time we finished there, Krystal would be wilting, but she wasn't.  We had to cut through the amusements bit, and somehow "Nana" was talked into parting with cash for rides and 2p machines!!  

Once Krystal was in bed, Kory and Jazzy got to stay up late to play the Wii.  They stayed up later than their Grandad too, though no surprises there!!  

This morning we headed out to Asda to get a couple of bits and bobs, and decided to head to Brewsters for lunch.  An hour later we were STILL waiting for food, the kids had already eaten theirs and were getting fidgety.   By the time our food arrived we'd complained twice and the manager came to refund the cost of the main courses!!  Not a bad weekend for freebies food wise.

However it left us pretty late for our next event, which was a trip to the photo studio.  As this was the first time Jazzy, Kory & Krystal had all been together, Coral and Chad wanted to get a nice photo.  It was a bit of a disaster as Krystal had nowhere near enough sleep, and was really miserable.  Getting 3 kids to look in one direction was not easy, poor photographer man!!  However from the results, you wouldn't know that any of the kids were anything other than little angels!  

So by the time all that was finished, we raced back to the house, shoved some sandwiches down their necks and it was time for them to head back to the airport.  Kory was telling Jazzy he was going to miss her and once they were gone, he was a little upset.  He really enjoyed having her around for the weekend.

Thanks for a nice (busy!) weekend, now we're all exhausted!   

Julie.xx