Hello and welcome to a belated diary entry – It’s late evening as I write this & there are still blue skies and sunshine, in fact we had to delay our planned movie night just because the weather is so nice!
On the Bus
Saturday was our big day trip for Surf & English camp. A blog on Culture camp’s adventures will be posted Tuesday but see bottom of the page for an update.
Anyway the rest of the kids were feeling starved of opportunities to spend your money so we all piled onto the big bus with Paul our genial driver & headed off to Galway. Galway is a lovely city , in many ways Ireland’s cultural capital and a perfect place to bring the gang to see all the artists & buskers - not to mention all the shops. I kept some of the younger gang with us & Dickie & Siobhan (Shiv-vaughn) showed the others around shop street and allowed them to go and explore albeit in groups and with regular check in times. It was a really succesful trip , the kids were all on time (seriously I’ve been doing this for
Siobhan teaches Alexi to make a dinosaur & a frog out of paper
15 years, that has never happened before) and everyone had a really lovely day. Even if I am pretty sure that Pennys has had to shut down after Marina bought the whole lot of it !
We stopped for food on the way home – Miguel Angel & Manuel of course went for seconds 
and it was after 9 when we arrived home, happy but tired.
In fact everyone has been so helpful & keen to help us we decided to give them a bit of a treat and let them have their first lie-in of the trip this morning. As you know , teenagers usually sleep like vampires do so this made me very popular indeed.
After a late brunch today – we headed off for a surf – the waves were small but it was such a lovely day nobody minded too much. Sunday is usually cinema night but there was officially nothing on that the kids were interested in / hadn’t seen before / that was appropriate:) so instead of buying the tickets , we bought the popcorn , converted the red room into a home cinema (it has a fantastic projector ) and brought over my , rather excellent dvd collection instead. So once there finished a few team games , we’re all going to retreat to our new Collieplex and watch some movies. What’s Spanish for shhhhh?
The girls in Cobh
