Removal Fun: Part Two 13th

After a relatively late night for the kids following Zac’s Christmas concert it was somewhat difficult rousing them from bed this morning.  It took the prospect of a cooked hotel breakfast to finally shift the balance in our favour.  I do believe both Zac and Abbey have become a little too used to having breakfast out with the two of them quite confident with choosing and ordering as if it was the most natural thing to do.

We headed out of the hotel just before 0830 into another very brisk and frosty morning and we were at school in just a few short minutes – one could really get used to this commute!  With the kids safely delivered, Nathan and I were scraping ice off the car and heading back to the house to collect the ‘small’ pile of rubbish and recycling left behind.  Poor Nathan nearly lost use of his hands to frost bite dismantling the outside tent whilst I tried to leave the white goods, which came with the house, in good order for our hand over tomorrow.  (Truth be told, everything was probably a lot cleaner than when we moved in!)

Excitingly, our next port of call was the recycling centre – a cold, bleak, dirty place (most definitely a man’s job!!)  By 1100 we were safely back at the hotel where Nathan freshened himself up before heading back out into the cold to catch a bus into Bath. Yes, he would be deserting the rest of his family to our own devices whilst he kicked up his heels at his work Christmas party (Anyone want to lay bets on the chance of him hitting his head when he stumbles in tonight!)

I had a rather relaxing afternoon catching up on blogs before picking my two and Freddie up from school.  We spent an hour or so in the hotel room before grabbing an early dinner (Italian again –hey, it was the only thing open!).  Tonight Zac and Freddie had to be back at school for 1800 as the Year 6 class were acting as narrator’s for the Nursery Christmas play.  According to Zac, the Year 6 kids do all the work whilst the Nursery kids simply stand there and look cute!   It seems Zac was right on the mark though the youngsters did finally come into their own towards the end of the evening singing some simply gorgeous Christmas inspired songs.

We next dropped off both Freddie and a bag of washing stopping at the Peach residence for a nightcap with both them and us keen to spend as much time together as possible before D-Day on Saturday.  Needless to say, Zac had Abbey didn’t take much rocking to sleep by the time we finally made it back to the hotel.

At around 2130 Nathan eventually found his way home and, needless to say, he needed no rocking either!!  The jury is still out as to whether he managed to make it to bed without hitting his head but, as the next day he showed no outwards sign of damage, we will give him the benefit of the doubt.  The jury though is perfectly unanimous in declaring he obviously had a very good time!!