Day three of the great adventure

A good night's sleep with a call from Sadie at 7 am. She was rather surprised to see Grandma rather than Mommycat but came for a cuddle and a story on Grandad's phone and M and B got a lie in for a while. Cereal with blueberries for  breakfast then off for a walk along the promenade at Carlsbad with Sadie on her Strider bike. Excellent riding  from Sadie and some very fast running on the way back which gave me some good exercise keeping up. We then went to a coffe shop for a smoothie, a chai latte, an iced tea and an americano with some deicious cakes - guess who had which drink? 

Home again for a sleep for Norah, Sadie and Madeline whilst I sunbathed and John and Ben went shopping then prepared a peanut butter curry for tonight's meal. Ben, Madeline and I went to look at a house near to them which was up for sale and had an open house day- pretty impressive but not really my style! Ben made some very green smoothies from kale, banana, lemon juice, cucumber and coconut water. Probably an acquired taste which John didn't risk! I look forward to the next recipe!  Then off to the Lagoon for a walk/bike which was very pretty and then home for Sadie's teatime - yummy pasta and mango with lots of milk for Norah. Wasabi peas and mango for us after which Ben went off for a quick surf, I bathed Sadie and put her to bed and Madeline fed Norah and got her off to sleep. Peace reigns and  looking forward to the curry!!

May 23rd 2013: The journey begins

Well here we are in sunny Carlsbad, and it really is sunny! The first flight was OK, watched a couple of movies, had a couple of meals and had a quick nap so the 8 hours went pretty quickly. And so to Philadelphia airport. Not a great deal of seating and not good coffee bar facilities but found two white rocking chairs beside the shopping mall where we played spot the fury animal in rucksacks or under arms - we saw various bears, Piglet, rabbits and lions and needless to say J won! The fire alarm went off and everyone was told to vacate the building but everyone, including us,  totally ignored it and carried on.

The next flight was 5 hours and pretty grim. No media or screen and no food but time passed eventually and we arrived just after 8 pm and Ben was there to meet us at baggage reclaim. We were whisked away to Carlsbad where we met up with Madeline and had a lovely evening together before bed at around 10.30 ish. A beautiful house, so light and spacious but only a week left there before the Dalziels join  the property ladder!  The only disappointment was that Sadie and Norah were in bed but tomorrow is another day.