It figures..

It was the nicest weekend of the year so far and both sam and I were under the weather. We have both come down with the flu and have spent the weekend alternatively shivering or baking. Sam is feeling better but I have spent most of the day in bed. M was post take and kindly took sam out so I could get some rest. We were supposed to have met up with the boys so were both very disapointed not to be able to.

Prior to coming down with the plague we had had a good week. The highlight was fossil hunting on friday. We took V & I and met up with the peterborough group at kings dyke nature reserve to fossil hunt and pond dip. To say we found fossils is an understatement, we found so many that we had to leave the majority behind!! We found belamites, amonites and bivalves. Sam was in his element and was keeping an eye out for plesiasour teeth and bones. Sadly we didn't find any. It was nice to see our peterborough friends again, especially the Beans. Pond dipping was equally fun, sam managed to catch a 9 barbed stickleback as well as a large variety of beetles and snails.

The other highlight of the week was booking our flights to norway. We are going in august and are all very excited. We are flying into bergen and travelling by boat Sognadal and from there to fimble valley to go ice climbing on the glacier. We also hope to visit Flam which looks beautiful. I have never been to scandinavia so this will be a whole new experience. Guess we had best start learning a little norwegian!!

Also managed to fit in visit to two local hill forts, one iron age and one bronze age. The iron age one was very well preserved and sparked lots of questions from sam about life in the iron age and how life changed for britons when the romans arrived. We also discussed how fit the people must have been, climbing up and down the hill everyday!! It was also an interesting walk as we had to go through a field of ewes and lambs. Miko and Rogue were convinced that the lambs needed to play with them and it took all our strenght to keep them in line. They were equally interested in snacking of sheep chocolate and I am not sure which was more trickier, keeping them from the sheep or keeping them from the sheep chocolate.