My Holiday, Part Two: Bristol

Hello, and welcome to the next post about our holiday! After staying in Wales, we went on to Bristol for two days, visiting our cousins who live there.

 

 In their garden they had a pond, and it was just full of tiny little baby toads, (we originally thought they where frogs), and we ended up playing a game called "True Frogs" with them. The idea of the game was that in the pond there was one toad who was destined to be your toad. You had to try and find your true frog by putting them onto leaf gondolas. If they jumped off and swam away it meant they weren’t your true frog. If they stayed on the gondola though, you had found your frog! You also had to give each toad you tried a name.

I, (after much trying) found a toad who seemed like my true frog. She was called Miranda, and you can see two pictures of her above. At first she had a sister too, but she sadly moved on. Miranda stayed on her gondola for a very long time, but, in the end, I lost her. I was letting her sit on my hand, not long after these photos where taken, when she suddenly fell off into the pond and I never found her again.

They also have a dog called Goldie, who was really nice and friendly. She did manage to get up to a bit of mischief though, taking Else's cuddly toy and running off with it, making a dent in my phone whilst trying to get the phone sock off... but it was fine in the end. She didn't rip the toy to pieces, and the dent didn't damage the phone, it's now just a little souvenir of Goldie.
We had a great time there, and on the last day we even had lots of races on the lawn, running, piggy back, ect.
Look out for the next, and last, post on our holiday, which will be coming soon! And click here for a link to the last post, all about our time in Wales. Thanks for reading! 

My Holiday, Part One: Wales

As you know from my last post, I have been on holiday! We went to three places: Wales, Bristol and the Lake District. I will write three posts about the holiday, and this part is all about Wales!

We stayed at a campsite called Fresh Water East, which is very close by to a beach with the same name. Whilst there we went swimming in the sea a lot. Another highlight was that we went to Folly Farm.

Folly Farm is a Welsh theme park, which my family have now visited four times, (my poor parents). My two favorite bits where the Funfair and the Jolly Barn. The Funfair had lots of vintage rides, like a carousel and dodgems.

The Jolly Barn was full of farm animals, and my favorites where definitely the goats... they where just so friendly!

Unfortunately, our whole holiday was during the British heatwave, and sometimes it was pretty unbearable. But in Wales we could always go for a swim to cool down, so that was lucky. Above is a picture of us at Fresh Water East after having a swim.

I hope you enjoyed this post, and soon I will post part two, about our time in Bristol!    

Tour of Our Caravan

Sorry I haven't been able to do a post for a while, I'm on holiday at the moment, and haven't been able to get Internet in till now. Talking of being on holiday, this post is about our caravan, which we are living in at the moment. It's going to be a tour, as you can tell form the title, so, I hope you enjoy it!

You can see from the above picture what the inside of our caravan looks like. It's kind of small for a family of six, but we just about fit in. We usually have an awning as well, which is a bit like a tent, but attached to the outside of the caravan.  
 

 

In the day these chairs and table look like this, very normal, but they are converted into a bunk bed at night for my younger sisters Caitlin and Else. I used to sleep in this bunk bed, but now have another bed, as I got too tall.

 

Else and Caitlin have suck up pictures next to where their beds are... just to add their own personal touch.

 This is my bed! Unlike Else and Caitlin's beds, mine is permanent. It's the bottom bunk, with my older sister Ruth on the top.

I have also added some pictures and decorations to my walls. On the left are some heart decorations that I made recently, and on the right is a collage of photos I made years ago. You can see that I look very young in the pictures, I think I was only about ten? I'm not sure.

 These are the sofas and main table. It also converts into my Mum and Dad's bed.

 The kitchen and washing up area.

One of the cupboards, used for kitchen storage. 

The tiny bathroom.

Some drawing's of Caitlin and Else's toys, stuck to one of the cupboards.

That's the end of the tour! As I said before, our caravan is very small... but it has taken us on countless holidays, so I can't really moan.

Show Time

I go to a Drama class called "Lamda" once every week, which I always look forward to. We do exams once a year, and after we've finished our exams, we get to put on a show. Last Wednesday was the day of the performance. We shared the show with a Musical Theatre class, which my younger sister Caitlin attends.

My grade was doing our own little five minute sketch, based on a Doctor Seuss book called, "Daisy Head Mayzie". It's basically about a girl called Mayzie, who's sitting at her desk in school one day, when suddenly, a daisy grows out of her head! It's a kind of crazy story, which is something you can guarantee with a Doctor Seuss book. For the first time in my whole life, was given one of the main roles! I played "Miss Sneetcher", Mayzie's teacher. She was a very funny character to play, as she panicked a lot, and almost fainted at one point!

Being backstage was really fun, I talked to the girls in my dressing room a lot, and we even played a trick on one of them, (one of the girls stood behind a door and jumped out when the victim walked in).

Our sketch was halfway through the performance, and as I stood in the wings waiting to go on, I got more nervous than I think I ever have for a show. I'm always scared before every show I've been in, but this was the most petrified I have ever been. I actually didn't want to go on, (I seem to remember thinking something along the lines of, "I'll let everyone down!"). But, in the end it was fine, and once I was on stage the nerves soon went away.  At the end of the show, us Lamda students where presented with our certificates for passing our exams.

The only thing which was disappointing about the show for me was that I didn't get to watch Caitlin's Musical, (I here it was something about letters though).

I enjoyed the show so much, and can't wait for the next one!