Half term break part 1.

Well, I'm back. It's only taken me nearly a month to get back on here. To be honest there hasn't been much to report but thanks to half term we had a week of fun, frolics...... and illness :-(

With Lauren being a primary school teacher we're only able to take extended leave when school is out so we thought we'd take full advantage of the half term break and travel back east to see our families (not all of them though).

We had a great run down and made it back to Colchester in 2 and 1/2 hours! Before you say it, I didn't speed, traffic was just really good ;-)

Unfortunately Lauren came down with a coldey thing Saturday before the Sunday that we left and then gave it to Charlie and me... I guess Charlie has my immune system as we were both not right the whole week.
Sadly the reign of illness didn't stop there. My bro Josh felt queezy all day Wednesday and by the time we'd got over to Nannie Annies it looks like we'd taken it with us as she was up all night, bless her! I then learnt that my Mum had come down with the coldey thing and Dad had caught this sick bug.

Still, enough with all this illness talk. We did end up having a wonderful time with family.
We stayed in Colchester for the first half and saw my family. It was great to see them all again and for Nana and Grandpa Rowe to spend sometime with Charlie. Even though he wasn't well at all he still had plenty of smiles and giggles. We even took him in to town to get him some new clothes.
While we were in town I noticed that the Embassy Chinese Buffet had opened again... (I say again because it has closed and re-opened quite a few times). I had fancied a Chinese for a while now and when I saw that their lunch buffet was £4 per person there was no turning back! YUM!

As we were around family we thought we'd take advantage of having babysitters and go out to the cinema to see The Kings Speech. I have to admit, I wasn't exactly exstatic about seeing it but it was a great movie that I thoroughly enjoyed. I can certainly see why it's won all the awards it has.

Whilst in Colchester I promised my sister that we'd go see her new place and spend sometime with her and her two boys so Wednesday we thought we'd have a little visit which ended up with us all heading to a local play park. We were a little apprehensive when we turned up and saw the park over run by teenagers.... Not impressed.

Still, we proceeded with caution and let Isaac play on the swings whilst Seb and Charlie stayed warm and chilled out in their push chairs. A few minutes later these delightful youths pull out a football and start powering it across the park, each time the ball coming inches away from the little kids the park was built for. With each kick I winced and held myself back until one kick sent the ball our way.... That was it!

I approached the youths and said in a very quiet and low tone, "Guys, I don't mind you being in here if you're keeping yourselves to your yourselves but when you start doing things that can effect others... that's just not right. To be honest with you, if that ball hits my son, you're going to see a side of me that you won't like... OK?!". It was quite funny seeing their little faces. I think I got the message across and although it didn't happen I imagine all the parents in the park applauding as I walked back over the Charlie. Sad I know.