Monday, July 25, 2011

Camping Holidays

Our friends thought we were mad - a camping holiday with three kids under 5. Turned out to be brilliant! On top of that, mum and dad are probably as well rested as we have been since Bambino 3 came along.

For the uninitiated, here's how you do it. One 6 man tent with three 2 man rooms. Two big boys in together, mum and baby in together, and daddy on his own ;-) No Tango Victor, so once kids down to bed, there's time for some reading amongst the baby time, and early to bed for everyone. Simples.

Like the eggs, MPLST's camera got scrambled and we lost the best of our pics. Here's a selection of those rescued from her phone. She didn't come on the boat trip out to the islands, so all the seal and puffin pics are lost forever. There's always next year though......

We visited a castle......people live in this one! I thought the boys would be bored, but they had a great time.





Obviously, big lollies help.....


....and guns too.....



We did a train trip on a fun sized steam train....


Everyone enjoyed it. Even if it did rain from time to time....




....but when it didn't, we roasted marshmallows round the fire. Don't tell social services we used a proper fire ;-)






As usual, LL came along at his own merry pace. Like the train, he gets there eventually.