Time to get some fresh air today, so after breakfast (which was late due to lie-ins), we drove to Glen Major Forest (15 minutes away) and started our walk. The temperature was -3* which wasn't too cold and inside the forest it was quite sheltered. Still, we all wore thermals, scarves, gloves etc.
Moo is not wearing an old lady scarf, it is my snood that she borrowed.
We climbed to the top and were above the forest. It was so bright and clear that we could see all the way over the trees and to the Lake.
At the top we found a cool bench that also doubled as a table - we would like one of these please Grandad next to the fire pit!
We walked deep into the forest with Moo and the boys pretending to ski, snowboard and sledge (all without snow says Moo - not everybody can do that you know!)
Right in the middle of the forest we found a Candian Flag attached to a branch.
We picked up silver birch sticks to make snowman decorations for next Christmas and threw stones into the icy ponds to try and break the ice.
After walking out of the forest and then back in again and walking a long way down a new path in the wrong direction (Huffle got his directions a bit wrong) and then a much longer way back the other way until we hit the car park. All in all we think we walked about 8km in two hours. Nice.
We had the odd jelly baby to keep us going and Small managed a whole Crunchie all to himself (piggy!). It was a lovely walk and we were all hungry at the end so we went to a place in Uxbridge but remembered Uxbridge shuts (yes pretty much the whole town) on a Monday. It's silly how quickly you forget what day it is during the Christmas Holidays. We tried another place but that was shut too and ended up in a Country Coffee/Mr sub, now this little family is not very good at Fast Food. We never eat at MacDonalds, rarely go to Tim Hortons and never do Burger King, KFC or places like that. So with the knowledge we were hungry and not near anything else we tried to order something quick. We make fast food service look bad as we stand oohing and ahhing over what we want. Eventually Moo, Small and I had a bagel with cream cheese (very adventurous) and Smallest and Huffle shared a steak and cheese sub.
Next we dropped Huffle and Smallest off at the Tire whilst the rest of us picked up some groceries for tea and the week ahead. We also picked up a few Christmas bargains for next year including an Elf Advent Calendar.
Back home, the boys had long needed showers and played on the IPads while the big people made Beef Canneloni and Spinach and Ricotta Canelloni for dinner.
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