just another morning here

Monday to Friday of our half term was spent at Helmsley Youth Hostel with a bunch of home ed friends. Steve came as well, after realising that he wouldn’t see the children at all if he didn’t! We were due to be camping in the van outside the hostel but in the end we had a room as one family couldn’t make it.

It was generally a lovely week, highlight for us probably being the day spent at Eden Camp (cunningly fitting in with Anna’s history project at school this term), despite the fact that Josiah was ill so he and Steve spent the afternoon in the van not in the museum, but anyway. Joe just had a high temperature and was back to normal the next day, thankfully.

The children really enjoyed spending time with their friends, as did we. In fact they were annoyed with us for dragging them to York one day rather than leaving them behind to play, but we had a nice walk around the city walls and wandered around (the outside of) the Minster as well as some birthday present shopping in the city centre.

The last full day of camp included a Halloween party, which mainly involved lots of food and some apple bobbing. Kids spent all day dressed up and generally had a ball I think Steve and I even managed to escape on our own that day and walked around the castle which was nice despite the drizzle.

Other things well worth a mention were definitely the food (Nic’s cooking really was fab) and the company generally. Note to self though, do not rely on husband for photos! Lots of fun had by all, anyway, even Steve

This entry was posted on Monday, October 30th, 2006 at 21:31 and is filed under away from home, general, history. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.