I was very lucky to be invited to join Dave's sisters Barbara and Hazel, and Hazel's daughter Christine on a girls only Coast to Coast ride. Yes, a motorcycle ride, not a horse ride! Barbara, Hazel and Christine set off early Friday morning from Walney, stopped in Kendal to meet me and then we all rode over to Whitby. We enjoyed some beautiful scenery over the moors and fells. We had plenty of coffee stops including one at a chocolate factory and one at the highest pub in England where we had lunch and watched the snow come down! Once we made it to Whitby we dropped our soggy bike gear in the B&B and went out for a great meal and a well earned glass of wine, followed by some wonderful dessert! Saturday we headed home a little more directly over to our house for Jack's First Birthday party! We all enjoyed some burgers cooked on the grill and us girls enjoyed gloating to the boys how great our ride was! Jack had a great party and received many wonderful new toys - Thank you! Jack has also started walking - there is no stopping him now! Mykala is doing really well and thoroughly enjoying nursery school - she runs in the school door kicks her boots off and doesn't even look back - her teacher wishes that she would keep her boots on though!
We have also been busy trying to find our next home... We have looked at a couple of tiny 2 bedroomed cottages in the Haverthwaite area. Both need painting, carpeting, appliances, etc. but at least it would be somewhere a little more permanent for us to settle down. Hopefully we will get the offer of one of them soon...
Dave has made it through to the next level of interview with the RSPCA - next interview will be June 4th...
More pictures at http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/myknjack/C2CAndJackSBirthday