quick break

We had a very quick but hectic break away last week!! I was so excited (as always) that I woke up at 3 am, I stayed in bed until 3.30 then went down to do a drink and get the flask ready, packed the sandwiches so that all we needed to do was get ourselves ready! this was done quickly and by 4.50 am we were on the road! We stopped twice along the way and arrived in Liverpool about 10.45, we were meeting an old friend of mine, he turned up half an hour later and we had lunch together, then we went into the city. Unfortunately we were so tired we only spent 2 hours there, so we have decided to go again sometime but stop nearer to Liverpool. We called into my aunt's on the way to the travelodge and spent an hour with her, I don't see her very often so it was lovely to see her even if only for a short while! We arrived at the travelodge for about 8 pm I think. We'd got a room for £15 a night so it was a real bargain. ON thursday we went up to Blackpool, wrong thing to do! We were just so disappointed with it. The lights didn't look like they'd be much, so after walking around the town and meeting our friends at 2.15 pm, we decided to have dinner and just leave. We left about 5 pm so didn't even see the lights on!! It seems to be mostly photos of Dr Who characters with a light behind them! We got back to the travelodge and I had a bath, oh, I fell over in Blackpool and grazed my knee and hurt my right ankle, it was bruised and painful, which is why I wanted the bath! Next day we got up and travelled to Belper, this was an ancestry thing, Barry's ancestors are from Belper and we were on a mission to find the house they lived in back in the 1840's!!! We found it and took a photo, we also found a nailor's cottage, well his ancestors were nailors, so there's a good chance they worked in something similar if not actually that one!! It was quite an experience thinking that this is where his ancestors had walked all those years ago! We went to Matlock Bath and then Matlock itself before heading back to Belper to the Spotted cow for a carvery!! We met Barry's cousin who he had never seen before, we got in touch with all this ancestry, her mum and his dad were brother and sister and she found me on Rootschat! It was lovely meeting her and her husband. We left at 10 pm and went back to the travelodge. Saturday we were up and out by 8.30 as we needed to get back home so we could rest before going out for ladies night! We had been invited as guests so were on the top table and I had some beautiful flowers. We had a wonderful meal and then danced away and we got to do the waltz a couple of times too! We've not had another lesson since that first one, we're hoping we'll get one this month! Of course it's been Bonfire night too and they're still going off! On Saturday because our son was going out we had to ask mum to come over and doggy sit, he's terrified of the loud bangs, so we don't leave him alone when they are likely to go off which could be anything from 1 to 2 weeks!! Last night we went to a display on the beach, it was ok, but nothing special, but it's the atmosphere I like, feeling cold and the whole thing of bonfire night we've not been able to do it for years as we've always let the kids go out but as they went out at the weekend it was our turn!! We've got a funeral to go to tomorrow a few of us are going in our car, about 5 altogether! Well I'm off for a chat now, till next time x