Last week was hubby’s birthday so he took the whole week off! We had been looking forward to it for ages. We had lots of nice, simple things planned to spend time with family, and for hubby to spend some time with Monkey, and me of course :). We thought about going away somewhere but with it being half term everywhere was quite expensive, and this time of year can be difficult to predict with the weather, so we decided to just take day trips from home.
The first day we had planned was to go to the Sea Life centre in Hunstanton, which is the nearest one to us, just over an hour away. My parents (Nanny and Grandpops) were really excited to come too. Our plans very nearly got scuppered by the ‘Big Storm’ on the sunday but thankfully by Monday morning it was nowhere near us or the journey so we headed off. It was certainly a wet and windy day but it was also such a lovely day!
Monkey loved every minute and was so good. He loved the fish and the rays and the Seals. It was really nice to get out and do something different, you know?
It was such a great day, but unfortunately the week went rapidly downhill from there… that night we were shattered so went to bed at about 9, but unfortunately just an hour or so later I was up, and that was it, for the rest of the night I had the worst sickness and diarrhoea of my life. I knew some friends had had a bug recently and I guess I got it! It was so awful, and lasted most of the week :(. Hubby got it too, though thankfully not quite as badly… I got food poisoning years ago when I was travelling in Peru and honestly my tummy has not been the same since. Anyway no further details needed, we were so grateful that Monkey didn’t get ill too!
But needless to say, our plans for the week were very much scuppered! I spent most of the week asleep and Hubby wasn’t right either so we had to call on the grandparents to help keep the Monkey busy and look after us. We are so lucky to have our family close by for emergencies.
We are all much better now thankfully and happy to get back to normal. It wasn’t exactly the week we had planned but Hubby at least managed to have a lot of fun with Monkey and we did manage to get out a bit by the weekend. I am just so pleased we made it to the Sea Life centre on Monday, so the week wasn’t a total washout!
