We wandered round the garden center before popping off to Mum’s to pick them up for a pub lunch at the Wheatsheaf – the steak pie was amazing, followed by a wander round the designer outlet at Castleford. Still no bargains. Geoff picked up some shoes and I got a top but nothing much.
While Maddison and Alison whiled away their time at Flamingo land Geoff and I went to York. We parked at the designer outlet on the A64 and caught the park and ride bus into town.
We went round all our usual haunts, bookshops, dvd’s and computer games, the model shops and M&S. We didn’t go up Clifford’s Tower as Maddison wasn’t there and we haven’t joined any of the heritage societies this time.
When we’d finished we caught the bus back and grabbed a plate of fish and chips from Gravely’s at the outlet before we wandered round looking for bargains. We didn’t find any! In fact the shopping was better in New Zealand . . .
We got up too late to get to church before the service ended, so I listened to an Old Testament sermon Nick had given me when we were in New Zealand. I am on my third now after having listened to 2 on the plane coming over. They are overviews of the books of the OT and are quite informative. Anyway, we turned up as they were tidying up after the service so managed a bite of cake and then Linda and Pete invited us round for a quite cup of tea. It was good to catch up, Scott has got so tall!
We drove to Ikea afterwards just to look round. The car park was heaving so we parked near DFS and walked up. Lunch was meatballs, how could it be anything else? Maddy said she remembered the taste but not having eaten them before.
WE managed to get out without buying anything and then wandered round the rest of the retail park before heading off to a roast chicken dinner at Mum’s. Alison was there as well because she was taking Maddison away to stay with her for a couple of nights with big plans for theme parks and dvd’s.
Mum likes to get the family together whenever we are in the country so she booked a table at Scaringwell Golf Club. We had drinks before in the bar and then went through to the dinning room. The menu was quite extensive but there was no roast beef and Yorkshire pudding much to Alison’s disappointment.
me, mum and dad Ann
Steve and Lucy Phil, Alison and Ann
Jane, Mum, Al, Maddy Dad, Phil, Ann and Geoff
Afterwards Steve and Lucy went back to Hull as Lucy had a wedding while the rest of us went back to Mum’s and then to Matalan (a clothes shop). Geoff did well with the shopping finding 2 new suits and some shirts, Maddy got bling and I found a skirt.
By 10:20 we were in the car and ready to drive to Hull to see Steve’s gym.
All very exciting – he is just waiting for the students to come back in September to get some extra teams to train.
We looked round then took Alison to lunch at Pizza Hut, she managed to get 25% off our drinks as she works for Pizza Hut in Leeds. Then we wandered round Hull Alison bought Maddy a very nice Handbag and a Nightmare before Christmas bag, Geoff bought model planes and I found some clothes!
I have now shopped in Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury’s – life is complete.
We spent last night at Ivy’s house and then went into Hatfield to pay our money into the banks, post the tax returns and other important post we needed to fill in last night. Then we went to ASDA, people do not realise how lucky they are to have these shops.
It rains in the Uk, so the plants in the garden were attractively wet.
It rained for the greater part of our journey North to Leeds. At some points visibility was very poor but we made it in the end. The Premier Inn is ok and Dad had soup and a sandwich ready for us when we finally arrived. It is light in the Uk until 8:30pm so we stayed and chatted about our holiday and life in general.
We left early for the airport as we needed to drive past the Police Academy where Mubarak’s trial is being held, but there was no problems with the traffic so we got to hang around Cairo airport for 3 hours! Maddy had coke so got twitchy while we were waiting and needed to be walked round.
Lots of people at the airport were on pilgrimage and were dressed in white. Some of the men were dressed in two white bathroom towels and white sandals, while the women had on white robes and then a white or green headdress.
We landed on time (2110) and got to Geoff’s mum for 11 pm, she and Bob had waited up for us so we opened all the Amazon packages waiting for us and all the models. We now have some dvd’s to watch when we get back to Cairo (Psych, Chuck, NCIS and Criminal Minds).
