Pools, beaches and cakes

DAY 3 - 31st July

Happy birthday mum! Today mum got a lovely cake and many cards! It was great to have a birthday while on holiday.

Today, mum and dad had found the blinds to my room therefore, I managed to sleep in. Once up I went downstairs for ‘ 1st breakfast’ which was similar to home … but It was a little different. I overheard someone say that we were in France so maybe that was the reason for the differences.

All of my cousins were playing in our huge garden. Some were in the pool, others playing table tennis but I … was heading to the car. I normally like the car, but this time I think I would have preferred to play. Luckily the drive wasn’t long and we were soon at a lovely French village. Mum pushed me into something called a patisserie. I normally don’t like shopping but this shop was interesting; bread and cakes as far as my eyes could see. I indicated that I wanted a chocolate swirl cake and my dad acknowledged. After this we went to a boring supermarket before going back to our place. I ate my whole cake.. which was the size of my head! It was delicious.

I then felt sleepy. I decided to have a snooze, not knowing that I would be asleep for 2 to 3 hours. Mum and dad had lunch, played a game, played table tennis and relaxed. When I woke up, it was time for dinner which aunty Caroline had cooked. This was my mums special birthday dinner and I was enjoying it … until 13 adults started singing in one terrible voice “happy birthday “. I don’t have a problem with the song … it’s the “hurray” afterwards. It was so loud and scary that I cried a lot. 

It had been a lovely day; so much so that I decided to stay up until midnight… which my mum and dad were happy about.

DAY 4 - I awoke ready for another day of playing however, mum and dad had other ideas. After breakfast we got in the car. We headed to something called a cinema. The rest of the family went in whereas mum, dad and me went down the hill and into the town. I have been told that cinemas are very dark with loud noises. It didn’t sound much fun so I couldn’t understand why so many people went in!

What was fun was the hamburger and chips mum spotted when in the town. The chips were lovely and so was the hamburger… but mum and dad would not give me a single bite of that juicy hamburger… I just overheard them stating it was so. I’ll remind them of this in ten years time. I then got to have a walk along the front. This is where I met the rest of the family who had been to the cinema. Compared to how much I normally walk, I only walked a little way. As I did I checked the sea wall to make sure it was fine. After the safety inspection, I got in my pushchair and went to bed. Apparently my parents had a cake when I was asleep… which wasn’t fair.

I was awoken 90 minutes later as my dad put me in the car. Off we went to a giant supermarket! I hate shopping but, this shop being foreign, did stop me from my usual tactic of crying so my parents would hurry up. Once we put all our bags in the car it was time to head back to the cottage.

Mum and dad were cooking so I played with grandma. Dinner was lovely (carbonara) but I still didn’t feel sleepy; even with just a 90 minute snooze. I therefore stayed up until midnight again 

I love holidays 

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