The Lakes - Day 5 xx

Another lovely day today though we all slept in later than we should have, ooops!  Even the kids were still in bed at 9am which meant we had little chance of breakfasting and getting ready to catch the 10am boat to Bowenss.  Change of plan, we caught the 10.40am boat to Bowness instead.

We had a walk around Bowness and sat by the side of the lake watching the ducks and swans and then caught the boat to Brockhole and got off for a walk around there....................

...................there is now a jetty, dedicated stop and ticket office at Brockhole, there never used to be.  We were lucky today as it hasn't rained so we took the opportunity to firstly walk around the grounds of Brockhole.  They have also introduced a lot more outdoor adventure activities including rope ladder's high up in the tree's and zip wire's which start by the house and end far away by the lake (look here).  Roman wanted to know why the people were sliding down the electric wires!

There is also a mini climbing wall for children which they both enjoyed having a go on.  Anais struggled as her feet were too big to sit comfortably on the foot and hand holds (she had wellies on).  Roman climbed to the top and then we heard "Dad!  dad where are you?  I need HELP!  I'm stuck!"  Mark had to rescue him.

From the shop at Brockhole I brought a very pretty wooden doily that says "Home Sweet Home".  I thought it would look lovely on the shelves in the conservatory.

We caught the boat back to Waterhead where we passed The Low Wood Bay Hotel.  We were told that the date on the front of it is 1859 and over the years it has had many extensions.  The small building to the left of the hotel used to be the coach house.  Previously it was used to keep horses and carriages for traveller's going to and from Lancaster and Keswick.

Nothing at all crafty done today.  It wasn't raining when we got back to Waterhead so we thought we may as well make the most of the rest of the day.  We came back to the apartment to unload our bags, pick Roman's boat up and some duck bread and went to Borran's Park which is to the right of the apartment as it is quieter there to sail Roman's boat.

There were no duck's or swan's at Borran's Park though so we went back toward's the Piers to feed the ducks and swans there.  Roman put Mark's leather gloves on (which are huge on him) and put pieces of bread in his hand to feed the swans.  On one occasion the swan pulled the glove straight off his hand which made upset Roman and Mark had to go paddling in the water to get it back!  Anais was happy as the swans ate straight from her fingers today :-)

After feeding the duck's we took the kids swimming again.  They were lucky enough to have the pool to themselves again.

After swimming we came back to the apartment to hang up their wet swimming things and decided that as it had got quite late we would go out for tea so we went for a carvery at The Lakeview in Bowness.  Look how stunning the Lake looked when it started going dark.

We were lucky to get a table with a fantastic view of the Lake.  After tea we went for a walk around Bowness by night.

When we got back this evening we all watched "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" which we borrowed from the DVD library.  Anais said she hadn't seen it in a while and Roman said he had never seen it before.  Harry Potter doesn't interest me so I blogged.  Can you believe it took the length of the film (with Roman cuddled next to me covering his eyes up for most of it!) to upload all of the photo's to here and Facebook!

Now going to put "Collateral" DVD on and relax for the rest of the evening xx