Summer Holiday

So begins our annual trip to Castlewellan. Why, given that the forestry service nicknames the week "Wellys and Bibles" do we attend year after year?  Perhaps the answer lies here?

Our holiday started off with heavy rains, winds which sent my hair horizontal and the laptop refusing to play our dvds...so on the second day of our holiday we headed off into Newcastle to eat some ice-cream and buy a tv/dvd player for the caravan.  We also stopped in at the cutest little toy shop Thumbellina where Bea selected a crazy flipping ladybird.

The November weather didn't stop us having fun though.  We visited the Butterfly Farm at Seaforde which was beautiful (if a touch expensive)

and had many walks around the forest park.  Bea spent a lot of time whizzing about on her bike too.

Watch the first part of our holiday by clicking here.  Slowly our friends began to arrive for the holiday week.  Firstly the Johnstons arrived with their sparkly new trailer tent....

...and then the Glovers pitched their holiday mansion...

The campsite began to fill by Thursday and lost it's abandoned look.  We, being creatures of habit, had pitched in the same site as last year, although Bea did feel the absence of our campsite neighbours the Scarletts who were staying in more palatial accommodation this year.

With the arrival of the castle folk on Saturday, the holiday week finally kicked off.  Every day was filled with club in the morning AND evening this year for Beatrice, plus the afternoon activities.  This year we had a duck hunt, a princess and pirate party, a well teddy clinic, the bug hunt and rugby tots.  To see some of the activities click here

Taking Charlie Bear to the Well Teddy Clinic

As always there was a lot of fun to be had on Open Day with the waterslide followed by Magic George  in the evening.  I suspect more of the adults laughed themselves hoarse at the children's entertainer.  To see Open Day, click here.

Perhaps the Bug Hunt is more your style, if so watch it here.  To view Max's birthday picnic click here

and the final part of the holiday week is here.

Happy viewing.