Have been enjoying the time off work following the Easter Weekend and the extra bank holiday this Friday for the Royal Wedding. For the first time I booked the extra days off in between giving me a nice long break away from the daily grind of work. With Julia being home too, her Uni holiday was better timed around Easter than the local schools, its been good being at home with her again. Mind she only has about 8 days in total until she packs up for good for the first year so she's looking forward to that.
We've done some retail therapy while she's been home, shopping for prom dresses for her summer ball. Bit of a headache really as there's lots of styles she don't like and not many that she does. Like me she's not really a dressy girl, more jeans and leggings, so it's proved a bit of a challenge. Not made any easier by the fact that we printed out lots of possibilities off the web for our trip to Bluewater only to find that most of the shops didn't stock those items anyway. Ended up back in reliable Maidstone where we ordered one and bought another to give her the option between them. Suffice to say that we got there in the end and a prom dress hangs in my wardrobe awaiting it's debut. On the other hand I had to shop for another pair of shoes and sandals after both are pretty much falling apart. I HATE buying footwear of any description and Julia will vouch for the fact that I probably tried on every possible shoe/sandal combination that Bluewater's more old fashioned shops had to offer. Ended up over Maidstone in some new shoe store where they display various styles and then all the sizes are there in boxes for you to try on yourself without the need to ask an assistant first. Much more my style of shopping as I'm so fussy about comfort that I know the shop person would be well fed up keep getting out all sorts of wrong 'uns in my search for shoe Nirvana. Sandals were from BHS in the end and again were probably the last style I tried on. All that remains is to see if they are as comfortable in real every day wear as they were in the shops, something that sadly is not usually the case when I buy footwear. Julia put on a very brave face as she sat on various seats waiting for me to trawl round the shop trying everything on, kind of made up for me waiting for her to try on prom dresses so I think on this occasion we were pretty even.
She's had some uni work to do so we've not done much else yet but might pop over to Leeds Castle at the weekend. Bought myself a new tripod which I'd like to try out so that will be a good opportunity.
Not really looking forward to getting back to work next week, the time goes so quickly, but our summer break won't be long coming round and where we are staying is fully paid up now so looking forward to seeing the place in the flesh and hoping it lives up to all the photos we've seen of the place. It has a sea view so at least we won't be stuck out in the boonies again this year!
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