We thought we had booked Monarch airlines for our trip to Portugal at the beginning of July, but it seems that it is actually Jet2. We can check in 28 days before we actually fly so we took a look tonight.

It seems that Jet2 charge £24 to check in online (Christ knows what it would cost at the airport on the day) and £5 per seat each way (on top of the fact that we have already paid for the flights), then £36 to check a bag and best part of £10 for a meal.

Guess we should have read the small print in mor detail as we are now down a further £160 and we haven’t even arrived at the airport yet (or even packed a bag!!)

Cheap flights my ass.

What a wonderful weekend for the kids and the weather. Three cracking days with little cloud coverage and plenty of glorious sunshine 🙂

We took advantage and painted the fences in the front yarn along with the fences down the back of the house. It took a solid 2 1/2 days of both Vicky and Simon and Tim and Heather helped for the first 1/2.

It looks lime we have fitted a whole new fence around the garden – with the exception of the bit in the front garden that was wind damaged – it will stay this way as it would need all taking up to fix that little problem – it has been that way for nine years so is unlikely to change anytime soon 🙂

Elliot and Oliver have spent the whole weekend playing can their scooters and as a result have built up their skill level nicely. On top of this we have taken the pedals etc off Oliver’s bike and he is using it as a balance bike. We have also ordered a new bike for Elliot so that we can begin the job of teaching him to ride a bike properly. Hopefully we will be able to get it sorted ASAP and then he can enjoy a little freedom of being able to ride a bike 🙂

We set out this morning at just after 10:30 heading to Fountains Abbey near Ripon – part of the National Trust gig that we bought into earlier in the month.  May as well get our money’s worth 🙂

Anyway, it was a cold day today, despite the sun making some solid appearances.  The boys LOVED climbing around the Abbey but were a little less keen on the walk to the water gardens at the other side of the area.  We even managed to find the (well hidden) golden egg during our trip – see if you can find the photo of Elliot pointing to it 🙂

Poor mummy has been poorly for the last few days and today was no exception sadly – ibuprofen wore off half way around and we left additional drugs at home 🙁  Cold drinks appear to keep the swallowing pain at bay a tad, although the ibuprofen helps to reduce the pain completely for an hour or two.  Hopefully tomorrow mummy will feel a bit better, else a trip to the Doctors will be in order – i.e. it will be the 5th day of illness 🙁

Photos from today are in the photo gallery but here is a link to them to save time…

Home » Fountains Abbey day trip » Holidays » Fountains Abbey - April 2013

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This morning we head out reasonably early with one of Elliot’s friends form schol, Euan and family.  We spent a few hours in the centre and had lunch etc there.  There was loads to do and the three boys just ran around from exhibit to exhibit, some of which were interactive so they were well entertained.  It was a little draining for the parents in that it was a full time job keeping an eye on them, but they had fun.

Then we went back to Euan’s house for coffee and playtime for the boys.

Sadly, on the way home a young driver ran up the back of Bruce so we need to head into see Grant (bodyshop in Ossett) to determine if any damage has actually been done.  At this early stage, it looks like she has been awfully luck and not really caused much damage (i.e. *should* polish out) to Bruce, but her little Citroen did not do quite so well as her car went underneath the back of Bruce and said hello to the towbar area etc 🙁  Oh yes, and the rear wheel hub has had binding brakes again today so Landrover are coming out tomorrow to check it out again 🙁

A few photo’s from the Space Centre however below… 🙂

Home » Trip to the National Space Museum near Leicester » Home » Trip to the National Space Centre in Leicester

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