Day 4: Wednesday

Rest day today. We woke up earlier than I would have liked and got up just after 7am. We enjoyed the breakfast Adrian had bought last night and then I did a hand wash of all the cycle clothes from yesterday - you wouldn't believe the dirt that came out! 

Hannah practising with diabolo she bought at Carisbrooke yesterday

Tom and Emily playing at being Knights!

Adrian supervised postcard and children's blog writing! The increasingly familiar plastering in sun cream (I'm not complaining as the weather is amazing and due to turn tomorrow so I made the most of it today) and we all headed to the pool about 11.15.am. Later, Adrian took Tom to Morrisons whilst Hannah Emily and I played water polo in the pool with a ball we found! We ate a lunch fit for kings and queens at about 2.30pm before heading back to the pool and an icecream. I sunbathed today like I would if I was in Spain! It was scorching round the pool!

Ice creams at the pool - thanks Nanna for the holiday icecream money!

At about 5pm we headed out to walk to Shanklin, the bridle path was very pleasant in the late afternoon sun, but we took a wrong turn and added a good 15minutes to the journey! 

We headed down to the Esplanade, played (pirate) crazy golf, ate fish and chips and played on the beach before taking the cliff lift back up to the main town to head home. Adrian was the crazy golf victor, I was second, Hannah beat Tom into third by one point and Emily came in fifth with her particularly unique hockey technique/swing!!

Unfortunately it was too late to explore the old town. The walk home was dark along the bridle way so walking faster we made it in 20 minutes rather than the 45 it had taken us to get there.

It clouded over while the kids were on the beach for the first time since we arrived on the island, the wind is picking up and the rain has just started to fall lightly.... Tomorrow's looking cloudy so it's back to British weather from now on. Oh well, it was amazing while it lasted!