My families adventure on the road to oz via Germany

Oh we do like to be by the seaside

Today we ordered the sun so we could go up to Cullercoats to see some really nice people from BE.

My 3 boys were well excited at 6am they woke up excited that today was the day i was taking them to the seaside. Horror was soon on their faces when they saw the rain boo hoo was the cry from our house this morning. Never mind i said cheerfully im sure the sun will be,out when we get there. So at 9am we set off on the bus in to Durham, we then walked up to the train station and is was dry. (i was feeling more optamistic) we got on the train and got to sit near the drivers cab which thrilled the boys seeing all them controls. Soon we were at Newcastle, we had a little wait for the metro to take us to cullercoats.

Finally the metro arrived, my boys have never been on a metro so were very excited, till they saw the rain again. Being hopeful my eldest told the other two it has be sunny at the seaside, it was the last time we where at the beach (last year).

Soon we arrived and we met up with the lovely tiggs, graz and their little boys.

AS soon as my lot saw the sand and sea, they stripped off to shorts and t shirts and ran straight into the sea. I felt hypothermic just watching them and was so grateful for the warming tea from Tiggs's flask.

Great fun was had at first as it was dry although cloudy, we watched the life boat launch into the sea, a first for my lot, they were fascinated by it. Soon the picinc was in full flow and sandcastles were being built , with much help from Graz and Vicky (their freind).

soon we thought we heard thunder, or was it a lorry going passed said i in a faint hope the weather was not going to turn nasty. No such luck we soldiered on trying to ignore the drizzle which was getting heavy, soon tiggs's boys were all covered up in big macks and my boys were getting soaked . then it stopped for a little longer. WE felt warmer and actually started to hope it might be getting brighter. Im sure we could see a little bit of blue sky hiding behind the grey clouds.

However all too soon it was bucketting down. Tiggs suggest we all go to her mums to dry off and warm our selves up. A big thank you to Mrs Tiggs for the use of towels and radiators to dry our very soggy clothes and bodies. The kids were entertained by watching a DVD on trains in Australia. Such a shame the blue skys we saw on the dvd was not with us in cullercoats. The boys had a yummy picnic indoors.

After a lift to the metro we were soon on our way back home and would you believe it the sun finally came out when we got to Durham. My sister bless her came and picked us up and i called in the chippy for our tea.

The boys have all had a warm bath and our shattered now after a very long day and after watching scooby do on tv with a warm mug of hot chocolate. They have gone to bed tired out after an adventure.

Despite such yeuky weather the kids did have a great time. The company we had certainly made up for the poor weather. Who knows the next time we meet we could be on a sunny beach in oz.

Thanks Tiggs and Graz for a really good day., Graz you are my boys hero with your sandcastle ablities.