Visits

Yesterday my mum and dad came over on the train to take me out for lunch. Dad used to work on the trains so they have a discount card and get vastly reduced price tickets, and now they are both retired they bob off all over the country. Me and mum went to a cafe and chatted for ages, while dad went for some liquid refreshment in one of the local pubs! One of the reasons for the visit is that they are jetting off to Australia next week to visit mum's two sisters who live over there, and aren't going to be back till after Christmas. I'm now in charge of buying the kids Christmas presents from Grandma and Grandad - hope I don't forget where I put the envelope full of money!!! Me and mum managed to chat so much that they missed their train, although we are blaming dad who told us to be back at the car at 2.05 and their train was at 2.10. We were a couple of minutes late, but I don't think I would have made it back to the station even if we had been dead on time! I had to abandon them to go and pick Little Prince up from school (which felt awful - abandoning mum and dad, not picking up Little Prince lol) but they waited in a nearby pub for the next train, and got that one safely :-) Its going to seem very strange not seeing them again until after Christmas now, and once it starts getting cold over here I'm going to be jealous of them sitting outside drinking tea by the pool, while I'm wrapped up and shivering lol. Not really - I hope they have a fabulous time, and I'm sure they will :-)