Our Last Few UK Days

Hi Family and Friends!

I'll make this one short and sweet since we have to be at the airport in 7hrs and we haven't gone to bed yet ;)

We've enjoyed our time here in England so much and had an emotional week as we said our goodbyes to family and friends - old and new. This week, I cried at home, the Children's Centre, Liam's Nursery and driving back from Rubery after seeing family!

I think the kid's channel 'Cartoonito' knew we were leaving and had 3 Fireman Sam mornings this week - we're talkin' 3-4 hours in a row - Wowsers! We didn't let him watch all of it - at least not all at once;)

We made cards from Liam and Gemma to the Children's Centre and Liam made one for his Nursery Teachers. He had an amazing last day of Nursery because it coinsided with the last day of term - they get two weeks off at Easter between terms, plus the Royal Wedding is another bank holiday here this year! Nursery had Easter Family Fun Day and we all got to go for the first hour and participate in various activities - Egg Hunt outside in the garden, flower planting, chocolate nests, hat making. Then for Liam, all the Nursery children sang 'The Leaving Song' to him whilst he played the drums and he got a card with all the children's hand prints and each drew a picture of themselves - it's super cute and Mark even almost cried! The Head Teacher would like Liam to keep in touch and possibly through his new school in Guelph - super fun! As we left, Liam gave his friend Luca a great big squish hug and I started to 'ugly cry' - it was so cute and I was so proud of him to get through the week with all our packing, donating and tossing out old stuff, including toys and books. We of course donated to the Children's Centre and Nursery, but also gave our little friends some things we couldn't bring back.

We packed a lot into our last days in England (not to mention all the actual packing we did!):
- Man City Football Stadium Tour (thanks Paul and Dawn!)
- Train and Butterfly biscuits every day!
- Mummy Friends visit at our place
- Parent/Teacher Meeting at Nursery School
- Visit and tea/dinner with the Gorski's and Woodward's at the Packhorse (our local pub)
- Our last Stay & Play and Messy Play sessions at the Children's Centre
- Mark finished his bike across England in just one more stage for a total of 2 stages only!
- Trip to Thomas Land
- Cousin Evie's 1st Birthday Party in Rubery, near Birmingham (that's Mark's cousin Rog's daughter)
- Nursery friend, Ashleigh's Brithday Party
- The Last Supper with Alicia & Mike, who are back from caravanning and whose house we rented (yeah, we went to the Packhorse again - twice in a week!)

Thanks to all our UK friends who made our stay here incredible! We'll miss you so much!

All our bags are packed and although our UK adventure is coming to an end, our 'Guelph Adventure' is just beginning :)

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Ode to New Mills Photos

Cheers for reading,
Tarah (goodbye/see you later),
The Nicholson Family