Final day

We started our final day - grandad's birthday - in the best possible way. We went to soft play again. As mum was with us, Haruki was allowed on the bigger set of soft play. Last time, dad wouldn't let Haruki go in this area as it had two 'slides of death'. It turned out though, that these slides were only in operation when a member of staff was present... So Haruki got to use the wavy slide 15 times! Dad was amazed that we both played for almost 2 hours. Yuto needed a little sleep though.

 

We went back to the flat for lunch. As we were leaving tomorrow, lunch consisted of many bits 'n' bobs which needed finishing. Yuto didn't like the soup.

 

We left the flat and headed into Whitby for around 2pm, for the final time. We had booked a table at 'The Magpie Cafe' for 4pm; this meant that we had 2 hours to look around the town. We all looked around a couple of shops then, Haruki went to sleep and spent the time with grandma and grandad in a cafe. Mum and Yuto tried to go shopping however, Yuto screamed and screamed as he wanted to go to the cafe too. Dad went to get his haircut. He ended up in a turkish hairdressers as all others were either shut or didn't do walkins.

 

Eventually 4pm came and we all went to the Magpie cafe for fish and chips. Haruki slept through the whole meal whereas Yuto discovered his most favourite food; rissotto. Mum had a hake rissotto, dad had a small fish and chips with escalops and grandma and grandad shared a fish and chips. They were delicious; they gave Mary Janes in Cromer a run for their money.

 

With dinner done and the shops shutting, ot was time to leave Whitby for the final time. We have had a brilliant holiday. We are both wishing to come back soon.

 

Back in the flat we watched 'Three men and a little lady' plus the first episode of 'Race across the world'. It was very exciting.

 

So tomorrow we go home however, we might stop at a big shopping centre in York on the way. We are not sure if we are that excited about that.

 

Toodle Pip!

Heartbeat

I think today was the longest day of our holiday so far. Still, we left the flat around 11ish. Mum, dad, Yuto and Haruki left for Pickering where, they left the car and boarded the midday train back to Goathland. This was the North Yorkshire Moors steam railway and it was very nice indeed. We both had obviously had too much fun already and went to sleep as the train carried along its journey.

 

Once in Goathland things seemed very familiar. Grandad likes a programme called Heartbeat and this village looked just like it however, the village was a lot smaller than we both thought. During our time there we bought Grandad some birthday presents and had lunch. We took cake away and ate it on the train back to Pickering (Goathland station was used in the first Harry Potter too). As we left, grandma and grandad - who had just turned up - waved us off.

 

Once back in pickering, everything was shut. All we did was walk around for a bit, bought somethings from a shop called 'Boots' and dad tried to get his hair cut (but the only hair dressers open were 'apointment only').

 

After giving up we all headed to the 'Fox & Rabbit' for a delicious evening meal. Haruki ate garlic bread, chicken and chips whereas Yuto ate chicken and beans. Mum and dad had a roast which, apparently, was delicious. It was about 7:30pm when we left the wonderful pub and returned to the flat to watch 'Goodbye Christopher Robin'.

 

Today was a great day!

 

Toodle Pip!

Beach visit

Today we split up. Yuto stayed with mum at the flat whereas Haruki walked into Whitby with grandma and dad. Grandma hadn't done the walking track before, and mum needed to do some school work. This therefore made perfect sense.

 

Once in Whitby Haruki, dad and grandma walked all the way down the pier, before returning to grab some chips... before walking back to the flat. It took around 2 hours and 30 minutes. Yuto stayed in the flat but didn't sleep. He just rolled around.

 

We had lunch in the flat before leaving for the beach. This time, Yuto and Haruki were together with mum and dad. The drive took us around 10 minutes. Dad and Yuto walked along the top of the beach near the seafront hotel and other buildings. This was because Yuto's pushchair's wheels sank into the sand. Haruki and mum headed straight down onto the sand. Haruki loves the beach ... but has got into trouble on a boeach before (in Cornwall). Soon grandma and grandad arrived and they looked after Yuto. Dad joined mum and Haruki on the beach. Mum and Haruki were playing a game; get as close to the waves without getting wet. Dad judged that both mum and Haruki were pretty bad at this game, by the look of Haruki's shoes. It was good fun though, the tide was coming in.

 

Once mum and dad's hour parking ticket was up, we were off again. This time we went to Whitby Abbey but we didn't get out the car. Dad took what he called 'a cheeky photo' and then left the car park. We didn't go far. We ended up in a car park along the Esk, directly below the abbey. Mum desperately wanted ice cream therefore, we went into Whitby to buy, and eat, ice cream before leaving for the flat.

 

In the evening we ate yesterday's pizza and had an early night. Though not much was done, we were both very tired and so went to sleep quickly.

 

Toodle Pip!

Fish!

We were in the car around 11am which, for this holiday, was very early. The morning had consisted of TV, breakfast and reading but now, we were off somewhere.

 

Mum and dad were keeping it a secret however we were certain of two things. Firstly, we were heading south along the coast and secondly, where we were going cost money as we saw our dad on the iPad with his bnak card. However, before we found out where we were going, we decided to have a little sleep.

 

We awoke on the coast watching mum and dad eating lunch they had bought from Tesco. We were at a place called 'sealife'. Dad explained that it was an aquarium ... whatever that is. We went in amd saw a lot of fish. Haruki loved the rays and sharks, whereas Yuto liked all the areas which were bright (the beginning was quite dark which, he didn't like). We cotinued and saw seahorses, an octpous, seals, otters and many, many more. We all had a lovely time however, both Yuto and Haruki didn't want to spend too much time at Sealife therefore, we were not there long.

 

After this we went into the nearby local town of Scarborough. It was okay however, we decided that it was nothing special; just like most towns. Haruki and mum went into M&S whereas Dad and Yuto went into WHSmith and Waterstones. Yuto got a lot of smiles.

 

As we drove out of Scarborough, it started to rain a lot. Dad flicked his wipers on to discover that one was broken ... it was flapping around on the windscreen. Dad didn't seem too annoyed. We overheard him say to mum that, during something called an MOT, he had been told to replace it ... but hadn't. Now we went to a magical place called Halfords where they replaced the wiper blade for dad. How nice!

 

After this we headed back to the flat. Once there we ordered dominos pizza and watched 'One life' before heading to bed just before midnight.

A lazy day

For some reason ... none of us could get going today. It wasn't a bad thing. It meant that we got to go to 'Little monsterz'; a local softplay. Mum stayed at home to work and dad and grandma took us. Dad let Haruki go into the softplay area for '4 and overs'...

 

... however after he had seen the 'death slide' he pulled Haruki out and put him in the '4 and under section'. Yuto got his own play area as there was only 7 or 8 children there in total. We played for just over an hour before retunring to the flat for soup and a sleep.

 

During this sleep, mum and dad played a game and dad finished reading his book 'This iceberg is melting'.

 

The day was getting on and mum and dad did want to do ... something. So we all got ready and took the lovely walk back to Whitby. On the way we had a moped with a trailer which had a table tennis table on the top coming towards us on a meter wide path. One lad was driving the moped and the other was holding onto the table tennis table for dear life. Not something you see every day. It was 6pm when we arrived ... and a Sunday. Suprisingly, a lot of Whitby was still open. We went for a walk on the Abbey side of the Esk for a short while before retuning to the flat for 8pm.

 

We had Chinese tonight and watched the film Yesterday ... having a late night.

 

Toodle Pip!

We've come to see a place called Whitby

We had a nice late start to the day. Dad had not have the best night. He started the night on the 'put up bed' ... then tried the sofa and finished off on the bottom bunk of a set of bunkbeds. Though it was the most comfortable, watching dad get in, and out, of the bed was a little entertaining. We had a lovely breakfast and got ready slowly.

 

We didn't take the car! This suprised both of us. Intregued; we followed mum and dad to a walking path which started at the side of Ruswarp train station. The weather was excellent and we enjoyed the walk which included fields, high hill sides, the River Esk and going under a beautiful brick bridge. Just then a steam train came whilstling past ... just to complete the scene.

 

After 40 minutes we found ourselves in a huge long stay carpark full of cars. Eventually we found out where we were. It was a place called 'Whitby'. So far, the only two things we were certain of was that; Whitby was near the sea (good point) and, it was packed full of people (not so good). We found out later that apparently, it was because it was 'Easter weekend' or something like that.

 

It was difficult for us to walk along the coastal edge of Whitby however, we did manage it! It was so busy that we hardly stopped. Haruki got a red crab ... but Yuto didn't get anything (which he didn't mind). We stopped for our first fish and chips from a place called 'The Magpie'. Apparently this fish and chip shop was famous therefore, dad booked a table for us, and grandma and grandad, for later in the week. Speaking of Grandma and Grandad. They were suppose to meet us in the centre of Whitby however, with so many people and poor phone signal it was impossible to communicate. Only when we had walked high up the northern side of Whitby and visited Botham's bakery did we get to chat with grandma and discover that they were near the train station. We walked down to meet them but, only after dad had been in a shop where the owner said they accepted either cash or cheque.

 

Cheque! Dad kept saying this word with absolute suprise. Haruki and Yuto had no idea what a cheque was but, it was causing my dad a lot of confusion. The confusion only broke when we saw grandma and grandad. Grandma was annoyed that she had missed fish and chips at 'The Magpie' so, her and grandad went for fish and chips at another place whereas dad and mum decided to start a fight between two workers at Boots (about a 'parent club' and how to be a member apparently).

 

With lunch done, it was do busy that we decided to head home. Grandma went off first, back to something called a 'park and ride' and brought the car back to the train station in Whitby for grandad. Grandad, grandma, mum and Haruki got in the car whereas Yuto and dad walked back.

 

Dad and Yuto had a lovely walk and once back at the flat, we had dinner, watched a film and went to sleep.

Holiday time ... at last

There is a new way of knowing if we are going on holiday. We both sat in our car seats - which Yuto had a new car seat today - and a big black box gets attached to our roof by mum and dad. There was a bit of a debate whether this black box was needed for this holiday however, it was added.

 

We came back into the house for lunch before locking up the house and back into the car. Dad took a video of different parts of the house - like the cooker - so that he had recorded evidence that everything was off prior to leaving.

 

We both - and mum - slept as dad listened to his podcast and drove ... north! This was new. In those moments when I was awake, I did notice that the roads we were travelling down were unfamiliar. We both looked at the road signs as we passed. The only one that rang any bells was York ... but we didn't know where that was.

 

After almost 4 hours dad turned right, down a hill and into a valley. The place was called Ruswarp. Both myself and my brother looked perplexed at each other. As we turned into Mill court, saw grandma waiting and looked up at flat 4 (which is where we would be staying), we both wondered why we were staying somewhere no one had ever heard of before.

 

The flat was huge. We both stared at the roof which was miles and miles above us. The TV was a nice big size ... which Haruki liked. We unpacked and we were just getting comfortable ... when mum said "right, let's go out".We all went for a walk around Ruswarp. Due to how small the place was, it wasn't long before we were back in the flat eating dinner.

 

It was a quiet night where we watched tv and chose which bed we would sleep in.

 

I wonder if tomorrow we'll work out why mum and dad took us here.

 

Toodle Pip!