A perfect weekend

and a Happy 11th Anniversary for Richard and me.

It was bliss. My mum and step-dad were coerced in to looking after the children for the weekend, so on early(ish) on Saturday morning Richard and I made a run for it and left for Portmeirion or rather our hotel Maes-Y-Neuadd which was just across the estuary.

The forecast for the weekend was rain, good job as we have a hosepipe ban currently, but fortunately for us from the time we arrived it was clear and didn't rain one little bit. The sun even came out in celebration!

The hotel was fabulous and the food was to die for. Absolutely scrummy, the staff were beyond good and one of the waiters, after chatting to us and finding out it was our wedding anniversary, had obviously had a word with the chef because when they brought out the dessert it had "Happy Anniversary" piped over it in chocolate sauce. Lick of lips!

Sunday it did rain but that suited us just fine and we spent the morning relaxing in our gorgeous suite. We left late morning and met up with our best friends who live in Shropshire for lunch. They had also arranged to have their children looked after my parents and so we got to spend some lovely adult to adult time, no interruptions from one of our children. Pure luxury.

All in all a fab weekend. Oh, and a photo, Richard and I on Saturday evening just before we went down to the restaurant for supper:

Oh and at home I don't know who had more fun. My mum and step-dad or the children! Snippets of conversations on our arrival home included "And Harriet opened the car door in the lion enclosure" "Grandad pushed me down the stairs, honest" and "Take a photo!". I'll expand more on these later...