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The Lakes, Day 6 xx

31/8/2017

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Nice and sunny again this morning.

Pictures from the drive over the Kirkstone Pass...........

........to Aria Force (National Trust) somewhere we have never been before.

We walked to Aria Force, walked a little further up and ate our picnic by the stream (Anais and Roman ate theirs in the middle of a rock in the middle of a stream) and then we continued our walk to High Force, the falls at the top of the hill. Anais and Roman had a paddle in the water in their wellies. Unfortunately Roman stepped back, fell over a rock, went flying and got soaked!

Ullswater..................

Views from "The Struggle" pass back to Ambleside overlooking Windermere...........

We managed another quick trip to Grasmere..........

Views of Windermere from the viewpoint on Rayrigg road.

When we got back Anais and Roman made a cake and some gingerbread men for Marks birthday tomorrow.

This evening we did another walk to Cockshott Point (halfway to the car ferry) to feed the ducks and watch the sun set.

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Day 5, day on the lake xx

30/8/2017

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It has been a nice and sunny day today, we made a good decision to spend a day on the lake today!

Our day looked like this, boat trips to -
* Bowness to Brockhole
* Brockhole to Waterhead
* Waterhead to Wray Castle
* Wray Castle to Waterhead via Brockhole
* Waterhead to Bowness
* Bowness to Lakeside
* Lakeside to Bowness

This evening we did the Island Cruise and then walked to Cockshott Point to feed the ducks.

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The Lakes, Day 4 xx

29/8/2017

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This morning we went for a walk around Kendal town about bought mark some birthday presents.

We then went to Sizergh Castle (National Trust). The black cat we saw last year was there too and sat on Mark and Romans laps!

We came back to the apartment so Roman could get his W H Smith vouchers and he put them with his money off grandma and grandad to go and buy a box of Lego from W H Smith in Windermere. Anais and I went for a walk around Bowness instead (where she spent the rest of her money on a Peter Rabbit notebook and pen) and then Mark and Roman caught up with us when they got back from Windermere.

This evening we did the evening cruise around Windermere. Afterwards we fed the ducks while it was going dark. Such a lovely night! xx

Romans Lego so far, it make three models, the first he made was a jet..................

..............and he took it apart to make the second model, a robot, this is halfway through, to be finished tomorrow.

Done !!

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Day 3, The Lakes xx

28/8/2017

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This morning we got up and caught the ferry to the other side of the lake.

The first stop was Hill Top.

We went to Beatrix Potter Gallery at Hawkshead (no pictures allowed in there though).

We drove to Tarn Hows and walked all the way around.

We had a brief stop off at Coniston.

We went to Grasmere, had a walk around there and bought some gingerbread.

We visited "Allens Bank" (National Trust) in Grasmere.

On the way back we stopped off at Ambleside and Waterhead.

Heavy rain this evening, we still managed a walk to the car ferry and back again with a little stop off to feed the ducks.

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August 27th, 2017

27/8/2017

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Light drizzle this morning but it didn't stop us from going for a walk to the lake.

We came back to the apartment for the car and drove to Windermere where we had a walk around there and Lakeland.

We then went to a National Trust place near Windermere, called Footprint.

We came back to the apartment for lunch and then drove to one of my favourite places ever, Fellfoot Park. So beautiful there. We hired a rowboat for an hour and half. Roman did most of the rowing, Mark had a go and I had a go. Anais refused and held on for dear life!

After the row boat we went to Townend (National Trust) in Windermere.

We came back to the apartment for tea and had a gammon dinner (we cooked the gammon at 6.30am, this morning so it was fully cooked before we went out after breakfast and went in the fridge when we got back at lunchtime).

We went for a walk we have never done before, to the car ferry. The ducks were eating out of Romans hands!

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Day 1 -The Lakes xx

26/8/2017

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We went down the toll road to avoid the traffic and the only traffic we briefly got caught in was a 50mph in a road work zone. Nothing to concern ourselves about.

First stop was www.nationaltrust.org.uk/rufford-old-hallRufford Old Hall (National Trust) where we did a tour of the house and then played sports in the garden.

We then had another hour drive to kendal where we went to Asda and went to K Village to buy Romans new school shoes (size 5E/F). Anais is size 7 but didn't like any of the shoes so we will have to look elsewhere for her.

We then drove to the apartment where we unpacked and had tea. Here are photos of the bedrooms, bathroom and the view.

After tea we went for a walk to the lake and around Fallbarrow Park. There are no longer any touring pitches on Fallbarrow Park. the few touring pitches that remained have been taken over with lodges.

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August 25th, 2017

25/8/2017

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Roman was inspired by seeing the film last night that he wanted to make this spaceship out of Lego............

It took him all day to make this which has moving parts too!

I finished this, started last night................

...........and finally got round to sewing a label on my blanket.

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August 24th, 2017

24/8/2017

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First thing this morning the awning was folded up and packed away.

Anais and Roman had friends round so I made a vanilla cake with sprinkles. Anais and Beth stayed in her bedroom on their computer. Roman and Corey played on the X Box.

An outfit for dolly made, pants, off the shoulder dress, shoes and a cape. Roman named her "Luna" as he was making a spacecraft on Minecraft at the time!

Lunas adventures in the log store................

watching the fish................................

and sitting on the bench in the sun!

After tea Mark made a spontaneous decision to take Anais and Roman to the cinema to see the last showing of "Valerian and a Thousand Planets".

Not my cup of tea so I stayed home to enjoy a few hours of peace and quiet after a loud day! Film of my choice, "Pride & Prejudice"!

I noticed earlier it started to go dark just after 8pm.

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August 23rd, 2017

23/8/2017

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Today has mostly been spent trying to dry the awning on the conservatory floor. All four side panels are now done. We have left the awning out all day and keep going to turn it as much as we can. We will leave it overnight and put it away tomorrow.

Today has been about making clothes for this doll. Just pants to do tonight and she will be finished tomorrow.

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August 22nd, 2017

22/8/2017

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Trying to dry the awning out in the conservatory. All four side panels now done, just the main awning to do now. It was still slightly damp from the rain when we put it away on Saturday so we thought it might be a good idea to dry it out before we put it away.