Nov 3rd - Raindrops

We've seen thousands of these the past few days and I expect we'll see many more thousands over the next few weeks! Wellies and raincoats for the next few months....

Nov 2nd - Making a call

I wonder how many times I've pressed this button?

Catching the waves

Newquay. Playing with my zoom lens, in poor lighting, again. This young lad and his friend appeared to be having a great time and were very good (as far as I could tell with my limited knowledge and compared to all the other surfers out there).

Halloween ghosts skating

We went to The Eden Project on Halloween. It was a fantastic day out, looking around all the various biomes and other exhibitions. Definitely entertaining for young and old alike, although I think possibly Nathan and I would have got more out of it had we been childless for the day! We had booked ourselves into their 'Little Monster's Ball' for the evening too, which involved lots of fun fancy dress, zombie dancing and other spooky activities, with a great deal of sweets.

There was an ice rink which we had a go on (well more we held the kids up on skates for 20 mins - I believe MAtix said to Nathan "this ice is far too slippy for me daddy").

This shot was taken as everything else was closing, just before we left after a very fun day. Even though it is mostly blurred probably due to hand shake rather than focus issues, I still love it. I would like to set up a camera properly in these situations to take 'motion' photos.

Oct 30th - Pumpkin

We made our pumpkin lanterns a day early as we were out all day on the 31st. The kids had great fun designing and cutting out their pumpkin scary faces with their daddy. I did all the hard work, getting the flesh out and making the soup of course!

This was our smallest - and cutest - pumpkin. The face was created and cut out (with a bit of help) by Matix, my biggest little girl. She was very specific about the round eyes and round nose. I had suggested triangular ones but that was rejected!

Just for fun you can see mine and Nathan's pumpkin too. Requested by me, created by Nathan!

Oct 29th - St. Michael's Mount

Chasing and running away from waves became a theme for our holiday. The girls absolutely loved it. They would scream and run back and forth getting very wet and more excitable every time. This beach wasn't far from Penzance and looked out over to St. Michaels Mount.

We had initially hoped to go across to st. Michael's Mount, either by walking when the tide was out or via boat. However the tide was up, it closed at 4pm and the last boat had just left when we arrived, boo!

Oct 28th - Waves

Trying out my new zoom lens on a small beach at the very bottom of the country. We were almost at the southern most point but not quite, we walked down the wrong foot path!
As you can see it was getting a it too dark but such was the way most of the holiday. I think this was only around 4.30pm.

We had to walk down a rather steep and slippery path and down a ladder to get onto this beach and then the tide appeared to be coming in. It was a little nerve wrecking with the children so we didn't stay long, but long enough to take some photo's of course!