On Friday, we returned, rather reluctantly from our 1st family holiday. We went camping in North Wales - just outside Abersoch - & had the best time ever! I spent all my childhood holidays around the same area, caravaning with Mum, Dad, Alison & sometimes Nan. So it was quiet emotional for me as we drove through all the places I'd been to before, now only Mum & I are still alive. But the excitement in our car of what lay ahead soon cheered me up! Mixed emotions lets say.But this was our holiday - a time for making new memories.
For our first time camping, I think we did really well. We had chosen a friendly small campsite, that only allowed small quiet families & no rowdy groups of singles! We erected our tent surprisingly well - about 30 mins - even though it was a bit breezy & unpacked our very overloaded car ( roof box for next time). My general theory to life is expect the worst & anything else is a bonus - so we were more than prepared for every eventuality! Plenty of clothes, food, games, 1st aid, blankets, pot & pans, suncream, everything that is apart from our waterproof coats that Christian had left on the sofa at home! DOH! - Never mind, we can't all be brilliant!
For the past week or so, family & friends had been telling us we would have a crap time, be too cold, not be able to sleep, never cope taking a baby etc all apart from my friend Lisa, who had faith & said we'd have a great time & if the weather is crap, just drink beer!! So to everyone apart from Lisa, up yours! We had a fantastic time, we didn't want to come home & we can't wait to go again. We must be natural campers or something. It did rain for half the time, but that didn't spoil anything & at least we know our tent is completely waterproof & you can cook inside!
Talking of cooking, we ate like kings! I had taken my desert island box of tricks - salt, pepper, sugar, garlic, chilli flakes, coriander, cumin, cayenne pepper & veg bouillon powder - so creations were made! I did feel a bit smug the night our neighbours (Alice's friend Rose & her parents), were eating tinned spaghetti on toast & we had locally caught fresh crab linguine with a warm chilli, lemon & brown crab meat dressing!
Alice had a great time too, when we weren't out on day trips, she was playing with Rose (6yr old in the tent next door), they were quite similar in that they both liked singing, running & pretending to be cats! It was so cute hearing them playing! Amelia's big news, apart from being superbaby & still sleeping all night, was that she sat up for the 1st time - hooray! I was so proud, we had some wine to celebrate!
As for day trips, we went to Portmeirion - which is fantastic, so many memories & now we have started watching The Prisoner since we got home. We went on the Snowdon Mountain Railway - which was amazing, if not a little cramped! It could only go up 3/4 of the way because of high winds, but it was still so worth it. We went to the Rabbit Farm & all held rabbits! Oh come on, we had a 3 year old girl with us!! We went to Caernarfon Castle but it rained so much that we didn't even get out of the car! So we went to Inigo Jones Slate Works instead & I finally bought a slate cheeseboard (well its a floor tile actually but don't tell!). Finally we did get to a castle, we went to Criccieth Castle because Alice wanted to be a princess - aahh!
As I keep saying, it was fantastic & our campsite was wonderful. We will definitely be going back there & maybe to France next year!!
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