Bristol weekend

We just got back from a really great weekend in Bristol, staying with Gaz and Rachael and also visiting with Huw and Fran and their new baby Gwilym. We arrived on Friday night around 9pm and tucked the kids into bed, then stayed up late chatting with Gaz and Rach. Then around 8:15 in the morning on Saturday we heard the kids outside on the trampoline.

View of back garden with kids bouncing on trampoline

 It was the most gorgeous spring day ever - perfect to sit outside in the sunshine drinking tea and later, eating lunch. Gwilym got happily passed around to various adults to hold, and Rhiannon also got a good dose of baby carrying and cuddling time.

Huw, Rhodri and Gareth

 In the afternoon, Huw, Fran and Gwilym had to go somewhere else, but the rest of us went for a really great walk in "Leigh Woods", which was across the Clifton suspension bridge. There was an exhibit called "Withdrawn" that opened today which consisted of 5 old fishing boats stranded out in the middle of the woods. Nobody was allowed to climb in or on the boats, so that was a bit of a disappointment to the kids, but not the end of the world. 

 Saturday night we gave the kids dinner and then later on we adults had dinner. It was a really great night! Sunday morning the troops were all out on the trampoline around 8am, laughing and screaming in joy and waking up the entire neighborhood I'm sure! As my Grandma Bucky likes to say, "Not my problem...".  They sure had a great time!

Hugo, Josh, Rio and Lil T having breakfast

We ended up leaving around 10:30 am to drive back home, and that was a good plan. Actually we stopped along the way to buy Tryfan some new shoes. All in all, a great weekend!