wacked after the weekend..

we are all pooped after a busy weekend, even both dogs are sacked out. C arrived from the sunshine state on thursday and we are overjoyed that she is here. M left for his trip on friday we sent him off with lots of cuddles and assurances from him that he wouldn't come back with anything in plaster! Have had a few texts from him, apparently norway is beautiful and he is having fun.
We have hit the ground running here, C is going to need a vacation to recover. Friday we introduced her to Bradgate Park as well as the city center. Although it was warm for here, she must have froze at bradgate as the wind was blowing as usual. It is always so windy there, must be the ghost of lady jane making her presence felt.

Saturday we continued with the history theme and took ourselves off to warwick castle following a long walk round watermead. Warwick was all that a castle should be and the scenes were really well done-especially as all the figures looked to have been made by madame tussads wax works. The only dispointing thing was the number of gift shops, it seemed like everytime we turned the corner there was another gift shop or food stand-someone has been taking lessons from disney. C treated us to the audio tour and I was amazed at how well it held sam's attention. he has come out with all sorts of interesting tidbits since. We climbed both towers and he was a very brave boy on all the narrow spiral staircases. As he said, going up isn't too bad, it is the going down!! We all agreed that we wouldn't have wanted to be the poor housemaid who had to keep all those stairs clean. It was a lovely day for wandering in the garden and sam took great delight in attempting to catch a peakcock. All in all it was a good day out and can't wait to take M back there later in the year.

Today started bright and early with tennis, how he has the energy to run around like that at 9am I don't know. This afternoon we visited Woolsthorpe Manor, Sir Isaac Newton's home. We had a fantstic time in the science center and in the make and do activity section. The NT have done a really good job with the hands on activities, they kept us occupied for ages. We were all very excited to see the lambs and it was all I could do to convince sam that bringing one home with us would not be a good idea. The house itself was interesting and the actual apple tree is still there so as you can see below we took lots of photos of our science guy under it. We took the doggies for a walk around the village-they were equally as excited to see the lambs but thankfully couldn't get anywhere near them.

Tomorrow we are off to explore the sites of the city center a bit more, just hope everything is open on a monday!