Thursday xx

Anais should be in France now (8am).  No roaming on her phone so won't hear from her now until she is back in the UK.  I had three messages from her last night -
* 1.03am - can't sleep (too excited) & too dark to see anything out the window
* 4.41am - been to two services for a stop off
* 5.12am - got to ferry waiting to go on

Roman is also on a school trip today to Tesco "Farm to Fork" to see how bread is made/where food comes from.   I went to wave him off - I was the only parent there.

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Roman had a nice time on his school trip.  He said he went in a big freezer, held a fish (he did stress to me it was "alright" - he wore gloves!), sugar coated a donut, went in the staff room, visited all the departments........

He came home with lots of goodies..............

brown "Farm to Fork" bag

healthy eating - bottle of water, banana, raisins

certificate

stickers

he sugared a donut and ate it when he got home

recipe sheets

Roman was "Paths Kid of the Day" again.  Here is his Compliment list.....

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This evening me, Mark and Roman played Cluedo - Roman won.  I am now the only person who is yet to win a game, I think its fair so say I just don't get it.

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News from Anais -
* text - 2.53pm - getting on ferry soon, legs & back very tired
* phone call - 7.00pm - just about to get off ferry
* text 11.08pm - to say back about 11.30pm

Mark picked her up 11.45pm.  I stayed home with Roman who was fast asleep.  Anais hasn't said much, all she wanted to do was brush her teeth and go to bed.  She didn't take many photo's, here they are.  She said she will tell us all about it tomorrow.  I will also update tomorrow with the things she bought us back - goodies each, very thoughtful! xx

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We went on that big ferry.

Inside the ferry with big glass windows.

Outside on the ferry.

France in the distance on the ferry.

Out at see on the ferry.

A very big church.

A town on the way to the beach.

Another very big cathedral, that we walked past.

Very high up the stairs where the ally's where.

Very high up again with the town.

We went up lots of stairs, to get all the way up. A very good view of a town and houses.

A lake that was next to the very big museum.

The museum again, with a lake next to it.

A museum that we also walked past, with a little lake next to it.

A very big cathedral that we walked past on the way to the beach.

A very busy town that we had to walk through.

France, it was amazing. Except for the bit when we had to get up really early to get onto the coach. I had to get up at 11:00 pm to get to the coach, and was supposed to leave at 11:30 pm. Instead we had to wait for another hour for the coach to leave, so we had to wait a while.  I sat next to my friend on the coach called Sasha, she was very tired. None f us could go to sleep on the coach, so for most of the trip people played on their phones or whatever else they had. It took us at least 3 hours to get to the services! By the time we got there I was actually tired which was annoying. People brought coffee's from the costa shop but me and my friend Beth, just brought a pack of Oreos to eat. We went on the coach again after that, and another 2 too 3 hours went by. This was when we were driving to the ferry. There were a few shops on the ferry, I brought a big box of jelly beans and some other amazing things.  We were on that ferry for about 2 hours and it was only 8 in the morning I think. Or later in the day, but it was still morning! After we went on the coach again for about an hour or 2. So we mostly talked, but instead I slept because I was too tired. By the time everyone woke up including me we were at France. Did you know that also you aren't allowed to walk on the grass because the people who live in France don't like it. We walked around for quite a while, and even brought some things from the shop. Like a pocket watch, lots of bracelets, a glowing iffle tower that changes color, and other stuff! A little while after that we went to the beach, to get some lunch. Because it was so hot we brought ice - cream and lollies and slushes, I brought a slush it was nice. After we went on the coach back home. It took us about 5 hours to get back. It was fun,I would rate that day at least 10 out of 10. And I would love to go back again.
This was written by Anais