Chrissie and Debbie met up and went to the beach and I commented on how lovely it must have been. Well they got their heads together and invited me and the girls to join them the next time.
So last Tuesday after I'd shut the shop up, we got home and loaded up the car to go off to Swansea. I'd decided to treat us and use our Shogun which we don't use all the time because it has a higher fuel consumption than the Xantia which is my run around. And for those of you thinking we are rich having two cars then the Shogun is for towing our caravan which unfortunately the Xantia is too small for.
Anyway, the reason why I am explaining this is that I then managed to misplace the Xantia keys and as it was parked across the driveway in front of the Shogun this caused a slight problem. After about an hours searching and me beginning to get to the woah is me stage they were finally found and we toodled off on our merry way.
The M4 between Junction 21 and 26 during rush hour traffic is not a good place to be with two young children in the car! Once we got past Newport however it was plain sailing and we pulled up at Chrissies at about 7.20. Chrissie and Celyn greeted us at the door with Celyn eager to show the girls her room. It was obvious that they were going to get on well to start with and all three were soon running round squealing with glee.
We finally tucked the girls up in bed about 10pm after I'd nearly had a hernia killing myself laughing at Chrissie trying to straddle a camp bed - believe me girls this was a funny sight. Then Chrissie and I sat and chatted till the early hours of the morning until we realised that it was the early hours.
The next morning saw a grey and gloomy sky, but once Debbie turned up with her daughter Hannah and her daughters friend Molly we all set off to a lovely beach called Caswell.
I couldn't resist taking a couple of piccies of Debbie and Chrissie huddled up under blankets and towels. I didn't feel the cold until quite a bit later, but it was a bit windy and every so often it would try to rain, it was a bit like our holiday.
The girls were loving it though so we stayed for a few hours so they could have a run around
After a while though enough was enough and we all trooped off to the famous Joe's ice cream parlour in Mumbles - well Chrissie has told enough people about this place it must be famous by now :)
I must admit the vanilla was pretty special and had a very different taste, reminded me of condensed milk. We had a wander round for a while after this and then all too soon it was time to go back and pick up the car to make the trek back home again.
Oh, why the title? Well Alanna was not on best performance that day and kept having her little strops. Everytime she started to go off on one Chrissie would start to sing this and each time the Oooooooooh would get longer and longer, Alanna can't resist giggling if you can get it right and this certainly did the trick.
Thanks to Chrissie, Celyn and Danny for letting us stay over (the girls say thanks to Celyn for sharing her room) and also to Debbie, Hannah and Molly for a great day out. I enjoyed it lots, clouds etc... and all
