Trip to Bolton Abbey

Yesterday we had a fantastic day at one of my favourite places - Bolton Abbey. We started with the woodland walk - another on Tom's 'to-do-in-half-term-list' The children took their cameras too so we all had fun taking photos of each other :)
Tom found a big stick and wanted to measure it so we found a stick about 10cm long and he counted in 10s - all my children seem to love numbers :)

Granny Pat took one of her infamous 'no children' pictures - her camera has quite a delay so often by the time it actually takes the shot the children have run on and the photos is of trees and nothing else - this has happened quite a few times now and still makes the children laugh :)

We managed to get a couple of half decent shots of the 3 together before Tom started pulling silly faces

Once the annoying duck frightening boy had left we enjoyed feeding the ducks, seagulls and crows while we had a nice picnic. We didnt manage to get a picnis table as despite being February it was such a nice day the place was packed ! so we sat in the boot of the car instead and the children sat on the boxes of books that I luckily hadn't got around to unpacking yet.

Sophie enjoyed splashing me :(

Tom decided to throw boulders in and was enjoying himself until he fell in :)

But even though the water was freezing he wouldnt get out and carried on playing for ages. Didnt think I would need a change of clothes for him so he had to go back to Granny Pat's in his pants - Ben fell in too but was able to change - Sophie managed to stay surprisingly dry.

Back at granny pat's house the boys warmed up by eating ice lollies - Tom had 5 before he was satisfied - oh well it is the holidays :):)