Whitby

Yesterday as the weather wasn't too good Mum and I took the children to Mini Monsters a new soft play in Ruswarp, recommended by Julia and Austin. It's only been there for a year and is probably the best soft play I have been too.

Today we have been to the beach at Robin Hoods Bay which always brings back memories as we went there a lot as children (I normally managed to fall in!). Grandad Bob had a great time building rivers and a sandcastle with Josh! We popped in to see my great Aunt who still lives there and another aunt and uncle who live in Whitby.

Tomorrow we are off to Ipswich.

We're here

We left Bordeaux at 7:30am on Friday and reached Boulogne by 6pm! We made several stops on the way and despite a few incidents we had a good journey.

We stayed in a formlue 1 'hotel' Friday night and got the ferry at 10:50 Saturday morning. There was thick fog all the way across the channel and we spent the whole time out on the deck at the back of the boat. No one was sea sick this time!

We stopped at Matthew and Mirandas for a BBQ and a dip in their new paddling pool and then went to Julia and Austins house for tea, Julia was absent as she was at a 'Take That' concert. No comment!

Some freinds of Julia and Austins from chuch kindly put us up for the night (a bit of contrast to the night before!) and Ben then had the oppertunity to share something of the work in Bordeaux on Sunday morning and Ivory Coast in the evening as well as preaching at the evening service. We had picnic sunday afternoon with several families from the church. Our children got on really well with Julia and Austins children so it was a good day. It was also good to see some friends Sarah and Jan from another chuch in the area at the evening service.

Monday morning having retrieved Bens laptop from the church, we set off for Birmingham and an interview with UFM. We had a chat about the last two years in France and our plans for the future. I guess because we have been with UFM for six years it was not as intimidating as our first interview!

After lunch we set off for Whitby and arrived about 6:30pm, it's been good to relax a bit

Today we have been to see Nana, gone to the beach and played crazy golf.

It's Ok

We have booked on the next ferry at 10am, so it's OK and we can keep packing!

Oh No

Just received an email to say our Ferry crossing Saturday morning has been cancelled, could be fun! We are leaving Bordeaux early tomorrow morning for Boulogne!

Hannah's glasses

Another update...a long one

It's still hot but it's time for a bit of an update, sorry it's so long!

Hannah went to the eye doctors last Saturday, she was not impressed with the eye drops which dilated her pupils and she started to fall asleep while the eye doctor was trying to look in her eyes! He gave us a prescription and Ben then took Hannah off to an opticians and her glasses should be ready for Thursday.

Joshua had an appointment with the psychologist on Tuesday last week. She had a letter from the hospital with some results of the tests done in April, all the tests so far have been negative which means he has been able to rule out a lot of things which is good news, there are still some tests which take a long time to do which is why the next appointment at the hospital is in September.

Friday night Ben and I went to Sammy and Carols for a BBQ, Becky babysat (thanks Becky) and it was great to spend some time with our friends from the church. We didn't get back until gone 1am so needless to say we were a bit tired Saturday. Saturday evening we had a BBQ here for the International Church and Ben did an impromptu bible study! For all of July and August we will be able to have an Sunday evening service every Sunday.

Sunday was a very emotional day for all of us as it was Sammy and the family's last Sunday. We had a normal service in the morning, followed by an picnic upstairs. Everybody had decided it wasn't worth going home between services and had had the same idea! We went and found Jardin Botanique so the children could stretch their legs, but it was too hot really! At 5pm we went back to the church for the hand over service between Sammy and Dick the church was hot and very full and Hannah managed to sleep on me all the way through, she was like holding a hot water bottle!

Now, we are trying to get things sorted out for our trip to the UK, Josh, Luke and Hannah finish at school tomorrow. There's a lot to do and it's too hot to do it!

The family Fucachon


















The family Brennan






















Sammy and Dick

It's too hot....again