After a fantastic weekend party we headed off first thing Monday morning to Centre Parcs at Whinfell Forest nr Penrith for the week. It was about a year ago when we went to Centre Parcs with Nyah who was about 18 months and Nikki was pregnant with Ciara. We had booked into a luxury log cabin with log fire, outdoor bbq area and three bedrooms.
Monday.
Ciara's 1st Birthday!
We arrived on Monday at about 1:30pm after the girls had had a good sleep on the two hour drive up there. After we checked in which took all off 2 mins we parked the car and headed for a coffee and a bite to eat in the complex. Nyah at this point at been under the weather for a couple of days with a sickness bug. She wasnt herself as she was complaining of feeling sick and just wanting to sit down in front of the TV and not move, which certainly isnt like Nyah. Ciara on the other hand was her bubbly smiley self although was starting to get some more teeth coming through which was resulting in her been a little grumpy and crying. Nevertheless, she was still happy most of the time.
Biggest milestone we had on the Monday during the week was Ciara taking her first steps on the walker!
It was a amazing to see Ciara taking her first steps. I always thought she would take a while to walk just because she loves crawling so much and is so quick but there she was starting at one end of the living room making her way to the other. Nothing could stop her! I was looking at old pictures of Nyah and thought it would be good to look at Nyah and Ciara when they where at a similiar age. Take a look below!
Tuesday
Daddy's 30th Birthday
Nikki had booked me and my dad in for quad biking on the Tuesday morning. After we had our breakfast of bacon and eggs we headed off to the quad biking circuit about 25mins walk away. I had never done quad biking before but been on my motorbike and biking etc was really looking forward to something similiar but on four wheels. We started off with the compulsary introductions etc then onto the bikes. The hardest thing was getting used to the throttle which was a little lever, similiar to that of a push bike gear. We started off by doing an emergency stop. After this we then headed onto a circuit to get familiar with the bikes, then it was off onto the bigger circuit! We where in a group of 8 and i was second to last with senior bringing up the rear. Think it took my dad a while to get familiar with the controls in particular the throttle. Sorry Dad but the tears where streaming down my eyes seeing you on the bike making up your own course and your knees going in all kinds of directions! Once you got the swing of it though you where right on the pace. After an hour or so of wheel spinning, managing obstacles, watching one of the girls over turn the bike we headed back to the cabin to get have a well earned bite to eat and rest for the afternoon. Everyone was that shattered that by 1pm everyone was asleep apart from me and Ciara. So with Ciara not really settling we headed out on the bike for an hour and did a couple of circuits around Centre Parcs. She loved it on the bike and was beaming from ear to ear all the way round.
Tuesday night saw us booked in at a restaurant in the main complex. We arrived to Nyah complaining of feeling sick so we ordered the food and took back home with us to have at the cabin where Nyah sat in front of the TV until she fell asleep. She really wasnt herself.
Thankyou Nikki and the girls and my M&D for making it such a special birthday, not just today but the weekend and for the things we had planned for the rest of the week.
Heres to the next 30!!!!
Wednesday
Today was the day we had booked Nyah into Bubblebees play group for the morning. We both really felt she would be ready for it and have a great time. Due to her not feeling well at all we cancelled it and decided to book her on a pony ride the next day. My mum and dad headed over to the Lakes today to see Elizabeth and have a walk around Kendal. This left me and the girls the day to fly around on the bikes. We had borrowed Sarah's mountain bike from round the corner. Nikki fell in love with it. The gear weight of it and gears made her do things on this bike that she just couldnt possible do on hers so thats now resulted in Nikki wanting a new bike!
We had lunch at the sports bar where Nyah played in the play ground which as always was a nightmare getting her off! At 2.5 Nyah really is fearless, she would walk across small blanks of wood set up off the ground and go down slides that took Nikki 2 mins to physic herself up for!
Wednesday night was my kind of night. Blue sky, in a forest having a bbq with the family. The pictures speak for themselves but I would much rather get the bbq on and cook the food myself than go out and spend a fortune for food that that you can cook just as well at home. My M&D had got the food from M&S, We got the bbq, Nyah was picking accorns up and putting them in a bag and Ciara was sat outside in her travel cot eating breadsticks like they where going out of fashion. Happy days. Not to mention rounding the day off by sitting in side on the sofa watching TV (Robert Dunlop Story, Joeys Brother!) next to the log fire (with only wood bought from the complex of course Dad!)
Thursday
The totally relaxing day of the holiday! As Nyah had not been herself all week we booked her in for a horse riding trek this morning. Nyah was so excited and like a natural on the horse. The picture says a million words below and she absolutely loved it! She went on the ride for around 45mins and from the second she got on the horse to her coming off the horse she had a smile from ear to ear. Having spoken to my mum about a friend of hers that has a horse and the £450 a month it costs to maintain it, Nyah and Ciara can think again if they think they will ever get their own horse!!!!
In the afternoon Nikki and my mum where booked into the Spa for treatments and a relaxation. They where that relaxed they didnt come back till 6:30pm. In this time me and dad took the girls on a bike ride then hit the play ground. When it comes to playgrounds, slides, obstacles, Nyah is fearless. One of the funniest things was seeing my dad come down this steep slide. He had built up that much speed coming down that his whole body took off from the end of the slide and he landed on his backside on the wood chippens on the floor! Nice one senior!
Me and Dad then hit the Spa ourselves. Wow, forgot how good that place is. Swimming outside in a hot swiming pool in the dark, looking at the stars followed by an ice cold shower, 15 mins in a turkish steam room then after that hard effort laying on a water bed and falling asleep! I was that relaxed I feel into a real deep sleep and did what my dad usually does, wake up not having a clue where I am waving my arms and legs around in the air!
Friday morning was spent around Centre Parcs then we headed over to Stavely in the Lakes to have some food at the Eagle and Child. We then went to wheelbase to look at my new bike. Change of mind on that front as not going to get the 1.2 2010 Trek. I loved the colour scheme on the net but in real life it didnt blow me away. What did was the Trek 2010 1.5 in the black and white colour scheme. Only problem, they dont have any in stock in Evans so looks like I will have to get from Wheelbase........ Watch this space!
This bad boy will take me places...........................................
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