Invasion of Llanberis, Day 5 and 6

A cute picture of Pebble, just because :) 

On Day 5 I went with my Mum and Sister to a fabric shop in Anglesea 

http://copperfield-crafts.co.uk/

Mum wanted some fabric for a dress, cue a mass debate over which fabrics matched. My Dad and hubby were watching the kids outside for a while but eventually came in and waded in on the debate! Mum ended up picking a lovely autumny fabric which was incidentally the fabric that my hubby also really liked so we ended up getting the same 2 fabrics. I guess Pebble and Mum will be matching again! 

Next door there was another craft/ gift type shop which had this amazing sign outside!

They also has a good collection of baskets. My husband teases me for my basket obsession! Looking around the living room right now I can see 12!

We stopped at a RSPB centre by the South Stack Cliffs in Anglesea, which had a cafe for lunch. Nemo ended up with chocolate cake due to hubby's weakness for cake! 

We left my parents and sister there and headed for a little cove down the road with a gorgeous beach.

Nemo wanted to paddle, I started by just rolling up his trousers, then took off his trousers before eventually stripping him off entirely :)

I should have just stripped Nemo off straight away (amateur mistake!) as all his clothes were damp so for the rest of the day he modelled his Dad's jumper with a hair band keeping it in place! I think it was adorable! 

Nemo and hubby engaging in building an epic sandcastle. Hubby takes sand castle building very seriously and carefully plans his builds. Sometimes he struggles to cope with Poppy and Nemo's 'help' with the building!  

My parents and sister joined us later. Unfortanately my sister was unwell but had a good rest on the beach.

Afterwards we popped to a bar/ restaurant place called the oyster catcher for a drink. http://www.oystercatcheranglesey.co.uk/photos.shtml

If you're ever in the area you should definitely go here it's amazing! The bar downstairs had all this cool decoration including table and chairs in a sandpit! 

Me, my husband and Dad all ordered hot chocolates and we ordered milk for Nemo. When the hot chocolates arrived Pebble proceeded to eat almost all of my Dad's marshmallows from the top. Seeing Nemo's face my Mum decided to have a Grandma intervention and order Nemo a hot chocolate instead of milk! Its fair to say Nemo very much enjoyed his hot chocolate :) 

Upstairs there are beach huts with heaters to sit in! How cool! 

We decided then that we were going to return to have chips for lunch the next day! 

Day 6 and our last day on holiday. In the morning me and my Mum went for a swim in the lake at Llanberis. This was originally my sisters idea but still unwell she couldn't come with us -convinient? :-p Me and mum jumped in and yes it was very cold- even with wetsuits on! 

It was quite hard to swim with the wetsuit on however after a few minutes it did mean that we were comfortable with the temperature of the water. Though my hands and feet went completely numb. After coming out I realised I'd stretched the top of my foot on the rocks and I hadn't even felt it. 

After this me, hubby and the kids went on the lake train ride with my brother, his wife and the twins. It had beautiful views and like the rest of the holiday we had amazing weather.

 

Poppy could come too. She didn't like being on the floor and crawled under the seats to visit a couple at the end of the carriage! She came back and stayed when she was promoted to a seat! Note the cup of tea to warm me up! 

Im wrapped up in lots of layers as I was a bit cold from my dip in the lake! 

After the train ride we went to have some chips in the Oyster Catcher. My parents, brother his wife and sister joined us there.

This time we got a beach hut :)

Nemo set about putting stones from the plant pots into each space. It looked quite artistic!

After chips we headed to llanddwyn beach.

Thought I'd be artistic!!

We headed back and had a final meal together before going home the next day. 

We were so lucky with the weather and to be fair Llanberis and Anglesea had more to offer then I had realised. May well go back again I think. 

Invasion of Llanberis, day 3 and 4!

I forgot to share with you this sight whilst we were on holiday. Whilst on the kitchen I saw some people pull in and carry this large blow up, naked doll into a house. The couple bringing it in we're laughing with some other people so I can only assume that this is a stag night but it was quite an unexpected sight in the welsh countryside! 

Now Nemo and Pebble both love calpol. Generally we don't use it a lot (although the last 5 weeks have seen us go through 2 large bottles worth!). I think they get it from my sister who is quite partial to calpol. My parents put us on paracetamol tablets as soon as possible I think as calpol may have been a bit too nice sometimes....

This is Pebble eagerly anticipating her antibiotics!

Day 3 saw us head to Mendai Bridge with just us and the kiddies. 

We found some free parking at the side away from the town and walked over. 

It was such a beautiful day and the water was a gorgeous blue colour. 

I just love autum such lovely colours. It's why we got married in autum.

Mendai Bridge had another lovely boutique childrens shop full with lovely but very expensive things for children. Again I resisted!!

I love this house! How amazing!  

Nemo had a very VERY smelly nappy. The type that you can smell even in the open air! We couldn't find a public toilet quickly so found a quiet spot by the harbour to change Nemo. Well fresh air is good for babies bottoms!

Thankfully Pebble needed a feed so I managed to dodge the nappy changing! (Another great reason to breastfeed!)

This slight bizarre parking baffled us. My guess is when originally parked there was a car in front meaning that parking horizontally was the only way to fit!

Another tiring day being push around for Pebble!

Afterwards we popped to the supermarket to get the food for dinner as it was our day to cook. Unfortunately Hubby was very over tired so I told him to go to bed whilst I made dinner for 9 adults and 4 children. I made a carrot and ginger soup, with baked normal and sweet potatoes. I thought this was would be a simple meal (the soup is really easy to make) however didn't anticipate how long it would take to peel 3kg of carrots whilst holding Pebble in the sling! 

I made rainbow skewers for dessert which was a practice for the baby shower I was holding the next week. I managed to do most of the meal on my own with Nemo watching cbeebies on the ipad and Pebble in the sling but my Mum did take the children and my sister came to help at the end! 

Day 4 we stole my twin nieces and took them to Dinas Dinlle beach. We have often dreamt about having 4 children so having all 4 kiddies in the car was really fun. (I'm sure 3 toddlers and 1 baby in a car would not be fun for that long though!!!!)

The twins are delicate little souls, they love flowers and one twin in particular will pick a flower and hold it in her hand for hours. Meanwhile Nemo is charging around the beach like Poppy! 

Doesn't he look a natural with all the children!

Poppy again had fun going nuts!

Pebble was in the sling, I have this amazing fleece which is made to go over the sling and is very snug got us both! Pebble decided the sea was over rated and decided to snooze instead!

It was all going very well until Nemo and the twins started to get bored of the sand and stones and decided that the sea looked pretty good. One by one The three toddlers started making a break for the sea. Me and Hubby were catching them and bringing them back to the beach however Twin K managed to time her break to perfection when Twin S was being carried back and walked straight I to the sea. Shoes and full clothing on. Luckily hubby managed to swoop in and pick her up just before a sizeable wave hit her.

As her tights and shoes were now soaked we decided to take all of their shoes off and let them paddle.

My hubby proved to be a dedicated uncle and his shoes got soaked whilst he held the childrens' hands so they could paddle! 

There were a couple of tumbles so the twins both ended up being fairly wet! We decided to call it a day and put everyone back in the car. The twins were not impressed at being taken out of the sea and screamed!

They did recover though! 

You can see how wet their skirts were! I'm not sure if my Brother will ever let us have them again!!!!

In the afternoon we went to a place called Bounce Below. http://www.bouncebelow.net/

It's a underground area where they have a extensive maze of nets suspended which you can play in. There are these scarey tube slides made of the nets. It's very cool. We didn't risk taking a camera in there but here are a couple of photos from google 

Nemo and Pebble were too young to come (although I'm certain Nemo would have loved it being a bit of a thrill seeker!) so my sister kindly took them for the session. 

I found it a little bit scarey when I looked down (some parts of the netting are suspended over sizeable drops) some of the slides are considerably steep and long! It was very expensive (£20 per adult) but it was different to anything over ever done before so glad we went.