This was a big weekend, where many events were planned to take place all at the same time...The Ashdown Weekend, which happens only every other year and always requires a lot of involvement from the school community; Summer solstice; the junior squash tournament; the village mens trip to climb the highest mountain in Ireland (organized by Rhodri); and a ladies trip to visit the Barker family in Germany (which I organized)! We needed to call for reinforcements, so Nain and Taid came down on Wednesday night to overlap for a day before Rhod and I went separate ways for the weekend.
Cat, Sasha and I flew from Gatwick to Stuttgart and met our dear friend Chris. She met us at the airport and drove us back to her house. We had a lovely time together riding bikes, going out to dinner, exploring the town she grew up in, watching Germany beat Sweden in the World Cup, lounging around in conversation, sipping the occasional glass of prosecco, and just purely enjoying the quality girl time!
Meanwhile, the troops and their grandparents lived it up with lots of special treats, plenty of badminton games, and shuttling between the local events going on. To top it all off, Tryfan won the 'Under 12s' division of the squash tournament by defeating his two nemeses one after another. Nice!
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