We drove back to Tenby from York last Sunday, a six hours road journey. The weather was fine, no rain, just pockets of dark clouds here and there. We broke journey at Birmingham and visited Ram's distant 'grand'nephew who lives there with his family. He has two young children the elder one is about Najla's age and the younger about three years old. they live just outside of the city, close to the University. We were there for about two hours.
As usual, Najla was slow in fraternising, perhaps sizing up the friends first.
Half an hour later they were playing together as though they had been friends for a long time!! By the time we were to leave Najla was not ready to leave. She wanted to continue playing. We had to coax her to leave with alot of persuasion and some promises too heh heh!!
It is rare to see Najla sitting on the lap of someone she has just met!!
On leaving Birmingham we visited Cadbury World, the chocolate factory and outlet, located not far from the house we visited, just about 10 minutes away. It was about 4.30pm when we reached the factory outlet.The place was still crowded with people at that time of the day. There were chocolates and more chocolates of all types, varieties and sizes all over the outlet. They were all attractively packed and displayed and we just could not get enough of them. We spent quite a tidy sum buying the varieties.
We continued on our way straight to Tenby. We still had about three hours of travel time and of course, plenty of chocolates to nibble and keep awake while on our way. Surprisingly Najla was awake all the way. She was playing with her toy computer all the time. We reached home at just before 9pm, 'pooped' and ready for bed!! I slept very well that night, satisfied that we were able to spend time with my niece and her family and at the same time able to visit the other family in Birmingham, a worthwhile trip for the weekend and something to remember for a while yet......
MKI Ramblings Unlimited,
Tenby, Pembrokeshire,
Wales
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