not sure how much i am going to blog, because i am utterly shattered! must go to bed soon. however, think i should get going to catch up with today! chris is hopefully sorting out photos from the weekend to flickr. think so behind with flickering may have to go backwards!
anyway, wednesday of our holiday! i had a late start as feeling a bit wobbly over various family things, so stayed in tent reading for a bit, but was ready to go out for a walk and geocache into much wenlock. the clues were mostly straightforward [shame that one was missing tho!] and we paused to have a rather fab lunch from the deli – i would recommend much wenlock deli! we had a picnic in the churchyard and the girls played climbing trees and catch. carrying on with the caching, we went past much wenlock priory, and decided to go in. they had those interesting audio thingies, which we enjoyed listening too, and even BB liked it. unfortunately she had a total melt in the shop over the issue of money. aargh. the worst for quite some time really. so with a bit of gritted teeth and quiet talking we managed to get back to a sense of balance and carry on! much of the cache was related to the olympics of much wenlock, but finished not far from a windmill and BB managed to swap a pinecone for a stuffed horse keyring [much to michelles disgust - but she had carreid the pinecone for ages specially]. most of us went back to the tent, but marcus took SB and C for a smoothy. SB loved geocaching tho, and remained her usual cheerful self. unfortunately the heavens opened and they got completely drenched. oh dear!! we have a fab kebab. BBQ tea.
thurs was a migraine day for me – grr! one which lasted in the end 5 days, with sat being the worst. but we went to enginuity. this was smaller than i expected, but the girls all found things that they really enjoyed about it. i liked moving the steam train best! the girls both liked the ‘xray’ viewer best. lots of interactive things, but like in a lot of places, the ones that needed you to move between levers were ruined by wild inconsiderate play by others. SB gave up with these! we spent a long time there though I am glad there weren’t many others. we had lunch at the museum of iron and then explored the museum. this was prob my fav one. i thought it was a really well thought out and interesting display of how the iron industry grew in the area, and how various bits of it worked. SB was quite interested in the wife and sister running the industry for a while, and making it make a good profit. by now my migraine reaching epic proportions, so although i enjoyed a wander around the darby furnace, i then went back to snooze in the car whilst chris and the girls went on to the darby houses with the manorborns, and enjoyed dressing up in victorian clothes. when they returned we went to the rather lovely tea emporium in ironbridge. we crossed and marvelled at the bridge as well. pasta for tea! as the manorborns ate out, we did some reading around victorians in the eve, and a couple of other books.
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friday saw us early up and out [ok, not so very!] as we decided to have a lazy breakfast at the tea emporium, which was v lovely! we explored the rbidge and walked down to the ironbridge gorge museum. quite a tiny museum, with a lot about fish! liked it too. then we took c with us to the tar tunnel – unfortunately closed due to low oxygen levels. i bartered with lady though that we could stand inside and not go beyond trucks! so at least we got an impressions. the girls all decided they could tell the oxygen was low and didn’t stay there long! a nice wander back along the canal to where we had parked the car past the china museum by the youth hostel – may stay there winterish! we then drove to the jackfield tile museum [lead me not into temptation!!] where m and m where having a sneaky quiet tea and cake! this was my second fav museum. i love tiles, and could v well imagine them throughout my house! by the end BB coming to the end of her museum ability, so we waved the manor borns off to the pipe museum and returned to tent for chilli and enchilladas [yum!] and a bit of a tent tidy as leaving early next day and rain expected.