Getting Ready for Charlotte's New school - 27th August - 7th September

I lost count of how many name tags i sewed on!! (I bought 114 and there were not many left!) There was lots of things to buy and shopping most days - Charlotte was in her element!  Fortunatly we still had some time to enjoy so outings during the time that we descended upon Sheila Bob and Jake.

The Bournemouth Air Show was spectacular, in particular the Red Arrows

We got a bird's eye view on the Sunday whilst out on Bob and Sheila's boat.
So many boats, we could almost think it was the Non Mariner's race!! - but we didn't swim the water (despite it being at an all time high temp!).

Paddle Boarding,

Water park and iceskating,

interspersed the packing up of the suitcases in the last few days and I even managed an afternoon of bridge with Sheila and her friends!

The only "accident" of the trip occurred when Charlotte was baking a cake, and got her hair caught up in the electric mixer!! A bit of a bald patch to start school with, but a good story to tell everyone!!! (and yes we did still eat the cake!)

We had a nice meal out for Charlotte and Jake's (heading off to Uni) leaving.