Beach Day
Yesterday was my day off so my not so little cousin & my niece decided Wednesday night that if it was as hot as it was on Wednesday we would go to the beach hut and have a fun filled day at the beach.
Luckily we woke up and there wasn't a cloud in the sky! (whoop whoop as I thought to myself when I woke up and opened my curtains)
We decided instead of buying food somewhere and spending god knows how much on drinks & meals, that we would take a picnic. We split between us who was bringing what food....
So I was in charge of making the sandwiches and healthy bits and amber was in charge of the extra food.
I thought it was the best idea to make the food just before we left so it was cooler and fresh for the long day ahead instead of making it the night before (which would of probably meant I got more of a lay in)
I made
- Homemade egg sandwiches
- Homemade coleslaw
- Homemade potato salad
- Cucumber sticks
As you can tell, I do tend to make a lot of home made stuff which is of course tastes a lot better than something that is brought from a store. I packed it all in my little posh picnic basket and got all the plates and cutlery sorted out, of course I couldn't forget the ice packs as we definitely needed that extra coldness with the weather.
Off we set to the beach which where we decided to set up camp as you say, it wasn't busy luckily as I would say there was only 20 families give or take.
Definitely took a while to set up the children's shade tent, which we should of had a guy there just to make us look not as funny trying to put this thing up.
I must say we did a good job! :P
We then got changed into our swimming costumes and put our sun cream on as we didn't want to burn. Unfortunately as I'm blonde I'm rather fair skinned so even with factor 50 sun-cream I can burn, so I had to keep applying every hour and even wear a massive sun hat, which I must say I definitely looked like an old lady in but it was fashionable.
My little niece was definitely the cutest as she had an blue all in one swimming costume with little white ducks on it! She was just standing near the edge of the water looking rather scared of the little waves coming towards here. I thought lets go for a paddle, which then turned into walking quite far as the tide was out! (to much effort for just a little paddle) but I would hold her hands and make it out that she was jumping over every wave that came along, whilst walking further into the sea. Not that she noticed as she was too busy laughing at the splashes she would be making.
BRAVE THATS FOR SURE!!
to get a nice little family photo of us in the sea, wasn't exactly the best photo as we was trying so hard not the drop the phone in the water.
After all the swimming and throwing stones into the sea we thought now would be the perfect time to start lunch. As we didn't want to get poorly tummies from eating then going into the sea straight afterwards.
It all went which was good and which meant I must be a good home cooker!
In total we must of been there for over 3 hours and the heat I think was slowing taking its toll on all of us as we was all starting to get really tired.
We packed up everything and even the shade tent took quite a well for us girls to take down probably even longer than putting it up!
But all in all it was a fantastic day at the beach, making the most of the hot weather whilst we have it! Even though we seem to complain when its too cold and even when its too hot, but we wouldn't be British if we didn't complain!
I didn't even know till this morning when I woke up to 4 snapchats of the lighting storm during the early hours of today. I must of been that tired I spelt through that and I'm a light sleeper!
Well I'm going to leave my beach blog there and start on my musical one!
Hope you all enjoyed reading about my day at the beach!
Love you all
Louloubell
xoxoxo