And we are off … eventually

 

 

 

 

 

(Haruki) Now that I have started school, I have a pretty good idea when holidays might begin. Yesterday, as I left school my teacher said “see you in a week after the holidays “. I am enjoying school … but holidays are ace too (I learnt the word ‘ace’ at school), so I was very excited.

Things always change don’t they. This is my first holiday whilst at school. Also, this is my first holiday having a co-writer. Yuto, my baby brother, was born in May. We get on all right. Seem to like the same TV programmes.

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(Haruki and Yuto) On Saturday we seemed to all wake up together. It was still early so we had a lazy breakfast. Dad then started to pack the car. This seemed to take all day! Both Yuto and Haruki wondered what on earth dad was doing. Once outside the car looked different. There was a black box on top of the car. We were told that it was a rooftop box. we set off around midday… 5 hours after we had woken up or, to put it another way, enough time to get to the caravan in Norfolk and back.

We stopped precisely 25 miles into the journey as the rooftop box instructions said that dad should tighten up the bars. We didn’t stop again until we reached Kings Lynn. The way we went was new to all and we all enjoyed the autumn colours.

We had both fallen asleep by the time we got to Kings Lynn. Mum and dad therefore had a cheeky KFC and dad bought a magazine from Tesco. As we awoke we were off … but not to the caravan as I had thought. After 20 minutes we pulled up into a lovely royal woodland car park. Though sadly Sandringham house and gardens were closed, we did have a lovely walk through the autumn woodland. It was stunning and all wanted to go back. Haruki got to play on an ace playground.

We made one final stop at Morrisons where we filled the car totally before getting to the caravan. Mum held three bags of shopping! Dad emptied the car and mum put everything away. We had a quick tea but it was already about 9ish. What a day! All were tired so off we went to sleep. It’s nice to be back though, said Haruki, there is a lot to show Yuto.