Towel art

Every evening our stateroom attendent Vincent delighted the kids with a different animal created out of the bath towels.

Onboard shopping

The facilities onboard the Royal Caribbean Adventure of the Seas were impressive. There was even a whole shopping street just for Mrs H to wander along!!

Impressive sight

This was the first glimpse of our cruise ship in the taxi from Malaga to the port. It was as enormous as it looks!!!

Aqua antics

Daddy had fun in the water with AJ and little Z and even Grandma ventured in!!!

No fear

Little Z impressed everyone with her repeated jumps into the pool.

Water babes

Little Z and Daddy were having fun trying to re-enact the scene from the film Dirty Dancing where Jennifer Grey is attempting a dance lift with Patrick Swayze in a river!!!

We're all going on a Summer holiday - Weds 25th Aug

Our hols started off in Malaga for a couple of days to acclimatise ourselves to warm weather before our cruise. We based ourselves in the Novotel Malaga airport for convenience and whilst the location was a bit challenging to find eating establishments (and particularly anyone that spoke English - Grandma and Mrs H had to speaka da lingo mostly!!!) the facilities were more than adequate. Swimming pool and hotel towels - what more can you ask for!!!!!!!

Project update

OK well I know I promised to try and keep the blog up to date but have failed miserably. Since my last post, we have had the outside of the whole house painted, the interior decorated, new flooring completed, new carpets, master bedroom decorated and carpeted, new wardrobes fitted and have managed to fit in 2 work trips to London for Mrs H and a family holiday with Grandma and Grandpa to the Med. Lots of photos to follow!!!

Now I hope you can see why I haven't had time to update the blog!!

I will try and keep it more up to date from now on but I can't promise anything!



Just a few more projects to complete (new front door unit, rest of flooring, new stairs/landing carpet, new boiler to be installed and the outside of the house to be painted to name a few) and the we can enjoy the end results.



Mr H and I have decided to treat ourselves and our bedroom is going to get a makeover as it is the only room in the house not to have been touched since we moved in!!!



Somehow amongst all that we have to fit in a trip to Liverpool to see the grandparents and a 2 week holiday.



I am estimating that it may all be finished by about September if we are lucky - just in time for the nights to draw in and the weather to get colder!!!!

Moving up day at school

Both AJ and little Z spent the day at their new classes on Tuesday this week. Both are really excited about moving to a new class and little Z was most put out on Weds when she was dropped off at her normal classroom - she wanted to go to the new one and a full blown strop was only just very narrowly averted!!

I can't believe that my 'little boy' only has 1 more year left before he moves up to high school and my 'baby' is starting full time school in September!! Yikes - where are the years going to???