Yesterdays happenings

Mr Messy and Farm Boy went out to the diner for breakfast as usual, picking up Farm Boy's (the one with the Native American artifact collection) friend on the way, as usual :-) On the way back they picked up some of friend's guns and brought them over to the house and let the girls have turns at shooting them!! The noise was way too loud for Little Prince and he ran crying to the guest house to find his Mummy!! It was too loud for Drama Teen too, but once she was wearing ear defenders she was back shooting!! The noise echoed around the valley and agree with them it was VERY loud lol. Drama Teen has now decided she wants to come over here for college (our university) and have two guns and drive a pick up lol.

After hearing about my Dad being in hospital I went for a lie down, and ended up sleeping until mid afternoon, when Mr Messy woke me up to go out for our Mule Carriage Ride. It was a lovely little carriage with bench seats facing each other in the back, and the driver and Farm Boy sat up front. As we were bouncing and slipping around in the back, Little Prince loudly asked "Haven't they heard of SEATBELTS?" lol. We stopped by an old iron bridge over a river, where Little Prince had a great time throwing stones into the river and running off some pent up energy. When we got back in the carriage Mr Messy and Little Prince were invited to sit in the front, which they really enjoyed. Little Prince even got to drive!! Pretty scary for us in the back lol. But he did a really good job and tried hard to listen to the instructions he was given, and of course remembered exactly how to make the mules go faster!!! When we got back to the farm the driver offered to saddle up some ponies later in the week to let the kids have a ride round for a bit :-) People round here are so nice and friendly :-)

On the way home we called in a Pizza/Chicken place for tea. The portions were ENORMOUS!! Drama Teen seemed to grow pale when they brought her chicken dinner over, although she did very well and ate much more of it than I thought she'd manage! Me and Little Prince opted for the buffet so we could pick and chose what to eat. I loved the potato salad, but the mash potato tasted like it was made from Smash so that wasn't very nice. Little Prince had some ice cream in his root beer - and Dawn tell Iain he LOVED it :-) For dessert I had cactus bread - a pizza base with cinnamon and icing on it, it was surprisingly yummy :-)