After a busy few weeks we were all very ready for a half term break last week. Granny is visiting and the kids have been keen to show her the delights of the Indian Ocean. And the thought of a week of sun, sea, swimming and snorkelling has been very appealing through the last month. So we packed our costumes, took plenty of sun cream, charged up kindles and the underwater camera and headed to the coast. It was bliss.
By popular demand we returned to the kids favourite hotel in Watamu. it isn't a place to go for silence and time alone. It is full of children, lots who we know already, and there is a never ending supply of fizzy drinks and daily pancakes at 4pm to keep folk going after a hard day of lounging around. Our three are busy and happy from breakfast through to bed time, only occasionally to be spotted (or heard) in the pool or round a table with friends and chocolate sauce covered plates at pancake time. And that means I get some me time, reading, swimming and the occasional dive. I am pretty sure granny is a convert too.
We all read loads, spent most of the day in some form of water - the pool, a very sea weedy (which didn't put any of us off body surfing) sea and even jumping off the top of a Dhow into a creek, did plenty of snorkelling and kayaking and just had fun. Tim went for early morning runs and mum went bird watching but the rest of us pretty much stayed on site for the week, only venturing off for sundowners on a Dhow in the creek. A tough life.
And now we are back to work and school and missing our afternoon pancakes. It will be a busy couple of months in the run up to Christmas with school matches and pantomime, sales and parties with friends and lots of work with travel for both Tim and me. so it is good to have recharged our batteries. But the biggest question for us all is just how quickly can we get back to the beach.
Anne
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