Fleur's lucky afternoon

Fleur's long awaited birthday arrived at the weekend the weather forecast said the weekend would be typical late autumn weather, i.e. wind and rain, so we were not too hopeful that the horse & carriage ride we had planned for her and her friends would be that good. However as Saturday mid-day approached the rain stopped and the sun came out, and it was a lovely autumn afternoon. The children all enjoyed the afternoon, and the horse and carriage picnic was a great success. The lady that led the afternoon was great with the children, the children could sit on one of the horses if they wanted. We had two horses to pull a lovely carriage which had room for 10 children and three adults.

We were pulled, sometimes quite quickly, through countryside between the vines, woods and fields, stopping for a picnic in a sheltered spot by a bridge, it was wonderful afternoon, and not much clearing up after the party either. Fleur got lots of lovely presents too with people being very generous in what they gave, so she has quite a few new books in French, lots of things for the bath and costume jewelry too.

From mum and dad Fleur had a PlayMobil castle, and with her Nana and Grandad contributing to the Castle building was started and completed by the end of Saturday. It needed a big table to put it on, and Fleur is very happy with it. From her Oma Fleur got a book of fairtales from the Efteling, if your Dutch you know that is a very famous Dutch theme park, going back much further than Disneyland, to say it was just a book does not do it justice, it is a fine work and wonderfully illustrated.

Sunday morning saw the return of the rain, and we count our selves very lucky that we ahd a great day on Saturday.