Want to go on Holiday?

 Eve and Daddy at Burnham-on-Sea

On the way home from nursery for the past few weeks Eve kept asking me, 'Want to go on holiday?' Her best friend Taro has been away on holiday and there are lots of photos on the wall of all the children having fun with their parents on the beach.

We didn't plan a holiday this summer as I'm leaving my job in a few weeks time to study permaculture. But as Eve kept asking if we were going on holiday, Sam and I thought we'd take her to the beach.

On Saturday afternoon we went to the park by our house to make sand castles in preparation for our beach adventure :-)

                                                     Hydrangea's on the way to the park

Eve, wearing a beautiful blue dress from George and Maxine

On Sunday morning we woke up to blue skies and warm weather so we headed off to Burnham-on-Sea, which is a 45 minute drive from our home. It's situated on Bridgwater Bay, where the Somerset levels meet the Bristol Channel (the River Severn has the second largest tidal range in the world) and when we arrived it was low tide, so we could not see the sea at all - it was sand and mud flats to the horizon! But we spent a few hours having fun on the beach, making sand castles, ate a picnic and also wandered to the lighthouse.

The Low wooden pile lighthouse at Burnham-on-Sea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnham-on-Sea

Eve, Mummy and Daddy ('scuse the food in Eve's mouth)

The beaches on that part of coastland are really long, so we were absolutely exhausted by the early afternoon. We walked back along the seafront so that Eve could have an ice cream (the look on her face whilst she ate it was priceless, she loved every second), and then headed home to relax.

Whilst we were pottering about at home making dinner and prepping for the week ahead, I sat Eve down at the kitchen table and gave her some of the presents that Ilias and Dimitra had given her last weekend. This was Eve's first time using scissors (no metal blade but still sharp and cut brilliantly), she was frustrated at first but once she let us show her how to use them she really enjoyed it. She loves the new Crayola pens too. What a lucky girl she is :-)