Shame the weather wasn't top notch, but, let me explain how it all happened:
We woke up reasonably early; considering the other mornings we've been having. Nan woke me up around half six so I could be the first one in the shower, as I take the longest to get ready, bahaha :') Croissants for breakfast, a check up of everything on the laptop and we were all reasonably ready around 8. We left at.. I don't know, 8:45, and headed towards Yeovil Junction, a train station in the middle of bloody nowhere.
Hey, don't ask me, I don't know train places. D:
From Yeovil we headed to Exeter, where we got off and took a train towards.. uh.. Paignton. As we were waiting for said train, there was a seagull keeping us all amused. I'd upload the video but my internet is slow enough as it is! Here's a picture of the little buddy, anyhow -
- so, after that, we got a 'bendy train' (trust me, it bounces a LOT) to Paignton, passing Taunton and Dawlish along the way. It seemed that, the further out we got, the better the weather forecast appeared. The blue sky was most definitely inviting!
As we got to Paignton, we noticed an extra, steam railway - but I quickly escorted the enthusiasts away! - and we passed it, headed for the beach. Now, what do you guys associate with the beach? Sun? check. Blue sky? ..kinda check. Sea? definitely check. Sandcastles? ..ummm.
We didn't bring our buckets and spades. And, the stupid thing is, we have a whole BOXful of them at home, and we forgot them! I was seething, begging, nearly faux-crying as we passed all of the shops selling plastic buckets and spades. So, once on the beach, the only thing to do was paddle and picnic. So me, Mathew and Stephen went out into the water paddling our butts off. But I wasn't in cossies like them so I got a taaaaad soaked.
Look at us having fun! :')
After, Stephen and I tried in vain to create a fort and waterway of some sort. But, without a bucket and spade, our tries were fruitless. I nearly gave up, but then, across the hill came our lifesaver: Granddad with a net of £1.50's worth bucket, spade, rake and... weird filter thing. But we weren't going to complain! We had our supplies! Our final product looked awesome, but, if we had more time - we only got like, half an hour - we would've created a world out of sand!
Afterwards, we headed to get our trains back, as Dad and Nan had been trying to work them out. Our train from Paignton to Exeter, however, came to a stop: some yobs had assaulted our guard, so we were delayed. So we had to find another train as we'd lost our connection, blah blah blah~ We ended up taking a train back the way we came to pass the time, as we had two hours to wait before a train going anywhere close to Yeovil came round the corner.
We finally got home, though. After our wait at Axminister - where Stephen coined a chavvy looking guy as 'gay' because he had pink laces in his nikes - we got onto a train, got back, and then drove back home.
Yay.
Now it's freaking dark, and my internet's being a bitch!
...and I've been refraining from swearing.
and broken it.
oh noes!
Aaron I love you, sorry facebook messed up tonight :( <3
xx
Toodles!
xo
