A caravan by the sea

Monday 4 May 2015




We recently spent a long weekend away in a caravan. We booked our cheap and cheerful break with Haven and chose to stay at their Mablethorpe site. Our drive to the park took us over the Humber bridge which was nice as the area holds lots of memories for me.

                                     

We had anticipated we would need to make a stop during our journey but luckily both Little Mr and Little Miss slept most of the way - bonus! We were given an upgrade when we arrived and were pleasantly surprised with our caravan. We unpacked and then headed out for something to eat.

Unfortunately Little Miss had come down with chicken pox just before our break but only had a couple of spots until our second day when she was covered from head to toe. This meant we had to plan what we could do a little more carefully. On the Saturday we woke super early thanks to Little Mr, had a breakfast and were all out of the door by 9am. We walked to the beach and spent a lovely morning building sandcastles, flying a kite and combing the beach for shells. We found lots of star fish which Little Mr was extremely wary of for some reason. Little Miss slept most of the time and once out it took her ages to want to touch the sand with her feet. We the went back to the caravan for egg sandwiches at Little Mr's request. In the afternoon the hubby took Little Mr swimming whilst I stayed with Little Miss. The joys of chicken pox hey, I am just glad it was quiet so we could go for walks and to the beach.

            

                          

                          

                                                      

We had a terrible night with Little Miss on the Saturday, she couldn't settle and was feeling so sorry for herself. As we had had very little sleep we had a much lazier morning and woke for 7am (yep, that's a lie in in our house, or caravan in this case). We had breakfast and then headed out for a drive to take in the scenery and also find a pharmacy that was open on a Sunday! I had planned to take some pictures on my 'proper' camera of the children and us as a family making the most of the scenery however my efforts were mainly focused on Little Miss.

We ended up finding ourselves in Skeggness. Once there we parked up and walked along the seafront. We stumbled across a deserted crazy golf that Little Mr was desperate to have a go of, who didn't love crazy golf as a kid??


                     
                     

By lunchtime Little Miss was flagging so we grabbed a quick bite from MacDonalds and headed back to the caravan. Back at the park Mr H took Little Mr to the amusements and the park whilst I stayed with Little Miss and tempted her with bi-carb baths in a washing up bowl.

                                             

On our last morning we packed up ready to head home but not before a quick play in the sand pit park. We had a lovely time even though Little Miss was not 100%. 

                                             

6 comments:

  1. What lovely photos :) and you had such good weather. Maybe I will try and talk my hubby round re the caravan break. We had one a few years ago and it didn't go well and its put him off, but my little Monkey would love it Im sure :). Hope Little Miss is on the way to recovery.. we have also recently had chicken pox in our house too so feel the pain! #mummymondays

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    1. I think we were very lucky with the weather, rain and caravans isn't much fun. Thanks for reading x

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  2. Fabulous photo's! I love heading down the mobile when we get nice sunshine. Such a shame little miss got the chicken pox but at least they are done and over with now. Looks like you guys had a fun mini adventure x

    www.mylittlebabog.com

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    1. Thanks for reading, yes at least we have ticked that childhood ailment off!! Haha

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  3. This looks incredible, I'm so jealous. I can't wait to get sand between my toes again!
    Oh poor little thing, I hope the pox have disappeared now. At least she has got them out of the way now!
    Bee xxx
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    1. The sand at Mablethorpe is devine, it's really fine and soft, it would be amazing with glorious weather!! Xx

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