More fun :-)

Yesterday one of mine and Cabbage Queen's friends drove over (6 hours!) to see us. We haven't seen her for YEARS and she was amazed at how much the girls had grown, and of course she hadn't met Little Prince yet :-) After having a chat, me, Cabbage Queen, Friend and the girls went out to the local town to a lovely little tea shop where we had a very refined girlie lunch :-) We had a giggle over the menu as us foreigners tried to work it out lol. We had a lovely time and the food was very nice, but the company was even nicer :-) Cabbage Queen insisted it was her treat, so thank you very much CQ it was lovely :-) On the way out Drama Teen noticed some English chocolate digestive biscuits and insisted that we buy some, although she did get cross that I wouldn't let her eat them in the shops! We spent the next few hours looking at all the shops on the High Street and shopping until Drama Teen literally felt like dropping!! I found lots more Americana bits and pieces for Little Prince's new room :-) And the girls found some lovely clothes :-) After that we visited the HUGE thrift store, as Friend wanted to get her son some cutlery for his new place, apparently at the moment he is using plastic cutlery!! As we parked outside the store me and Drama Teen announced that we were going to go over to the McDonalds at the other side of the car park. Cabbage Queen immediately offered to drive us!! She and Friend seemed very shocked that we were quite happy to walk!!! We got stared at quite a bit as we WALKED across the car park, so we decided to pretend to drive to make the American's feel better lol. We thought about walking through the Drive Thru' but decided that was going a bit too far!! We confused the girl serving us though as Drama Teen wanted a McNugget meal with apple juice - apparently she'd never heard of that before!! Drama Teen sat in the car with LMS eating her McMeal while I went and found Cabbage Queen and Friend in the store, and managed to find even more bits and bobs for Little Prince's room :-) After we'd finished shopping we DROVE back to the McDonalds, and then back home again.

While we were having a girlie lunch and shopping day, Mr Messy, Farm Boy and Little Prince went out to meet one of Farm Boy's friends who took them for a drive in his WWII Jeep. Little Prince loved it and asked questions constantly before flumping over to one side, completely asleep, bless :-) He woke up when they pulled up at the local Whippy Dip, and insisted he didn't want anything, until he tried Daddy's milk shake and then stole it lol. They were already back home by the time us girls got back and Little Prince insisted on seeing everything we had bought and checking what was for him!! We spent a few hours sat on the porch with our friends, trying (mostly in vain) to catch pictures of the Humming Birds, before Friend said she had better set off back home again. We took photos, hugged and said our Goodbyes :-( To cheer us up me and Cabbage Queen went to a different town nearby to its quilting store, while everyone else stayed at home and ordered in pizza :-) I couldn't believe how MUCH choice and material the store had!!! It was completely overwhelming!! I had thought Walmart had a great selection lol. We spent an hour or so mooching round the fabrics and admiring the completed quilts, they were so intricate and artistic WOW!! In the end I only bought a zip up tin (yes a TIN box) in the shape/style of a backpack, but with Disney Cars motif - another great find for Little Prince's room :-) By the time we got back LMS had put Little Prince to bed, and the girls were in bed too!! Me and Cabbage Queen chatted about quilting for a while, and she is going to show me how to use my rotary cutter :-) She has also lent me a pile of quilting books to see if I can find ideas on how to make up Little Prince's quilt :-) I need a super easy pattern that only has straight lines lol!!