Monday

Monday 8th
Family day, my favorite kind of day. Nathan & I set our alarms for 8am & woke up at 9.30am, we like our sleep ins! We had some delicious fruit salad for breakfast & head off two hours later, I don’t know how or what we did, but we are good at procrastinating.
We head straight for Barnstaple to sort our phone out. The shop assistant seemed confused at the problem & Nathan was still blaming me for putting the old sim back in, Ok, I may be a bit clumsy & dopey but I knew I hadn’t!
After a few phone calls we found out we’d been sold a dud sim, it had been expired for over a year! It didn’t take long to sort out & fix up a new sim... Now to find the piece of paper with all the numbers on it...

I managed to connect to the shopping centre wifi & got in touch with my auntie, we went to meet them out front of tReds, however when we got about 10 meters away from them they turned & started walking away! They hadn’t seen us. I crutched as fast as I could but they had super human legs! We couldn’t keep up, so we decided to cut them off as they were leaving the car park.

Rich & Rach had booked a table at The Courtyard for 1pm originally, which then changed to 1.30pm as Gemma decided to catch a later train, which then got cancelled so she couldn’t make it until 2.30. So we went to the restaurant at 12.30 & waited 10 minutes for a table. We were seated but it wasn’t in the sun & one of the tables was so wobbly any drink that was to be put on the table would end up on the person opposite you!
We ordered our drinks & food, the drinks took forever to come out & when they did, it wasn’t right. Instead of one large bottle of fizzy water she brought out four small bottles of it, makes...sense? Oh, & one of the waitresses looked like Cameron Diaz! Nathan was staring at her, but according to him it wasn’t creepy because he had his sunglasses on with his head facing another direction. The food wasn’t great & nor was the service, there was a sign on every table that said we could only order from part of the menu as the chef was off sick. Nathan’s immediate thought was food poisoning.

We went to Putsborough in the afternoon with the Carters, it was absolutely perfect weather to go to the beach, however beach on crutches was a workout trying to get up & down the hill to the beach! It was a lovely warm afternoon, we went down to the water & dipped our feet in. It was almost warm enough to swim in. Tess lay on the beach whilst Gemma burried her & turned her into a sand mermaid. Dylan dug a hole & growled at any dog that even looked at his ball. Nathan decided to have a nap on the picnic mat, unfortunately for him he was facing away from me so I grabbed a small handful of sand & pulled the elastic on his undies back as the sand grains trickled into his pants. He did not wake up a happy chap.

We head home to get changed & head out to the movies with Karma & Dafydd to see The Inbetweeners 2, which we’d heard such good things about. Unfortunately, the best part about the movie was an advert before it which involved ‘This is a true story’ - which makes anything scarier - a creepy looking man going into a creepy house & a goat in a shower cap! The movie that followed was not one that any of us would pay to see again it was quite average, I think I’d heard it was so good that my expectations were to high.

We left the movies & head to a pub in Braunton for a quick beer, we expected to be there for half an hour but didn’t leave until two hours later. We quoted almost every line in Jim Carrey’s Ace Ventura movies. Which seems to happen a lot, if a conversation dies random noises are made.