Day trip!

My best friend Sarah has recently passed her driving text and is loving being able to drive all over the place in her Mam's cars during the Easter holidays so she dropped her Mam off at work this morning and then drove other to collect me. We'd decided last night that we were off to High Force, the biggest waterfall in England and so she arrived to find me in my tracksuit bottoms, hiking boots, the full works while she had her jeans, doll shoes and the announcement that we were now going to go to Barnard Castle. I decided not to moan as it is also very beautiful and so I'd still have the chance to test out my new camera, although I have still failed to finish off my film (yeah, it's old school) and am likely taking the worst pictures ever.

Living in the middle of nowhere it's a mission finding the way to anywhere from my house but she thrust a map into my arms and didn't seem to see the need for looking up directions. After a wrong turn when she failed to listen to me we quickly turned round and were back on track. I'm very proud that was the only slip up made on the way there and we were soon sat on a bench overlooking the castle and river eating our packed lunches.

A walk around the castle and by the river and a lot of pictures taken by me later we were absolutly freezing and so found a delightful teashop and had a pot of tea and a cream scone each, although after three cups she couldn't hack the rest so I finished hers off, along with my entire pot. I think I'm still buzzing from the caffeine. After warming up we went in almost every shop on the route back to the car in search of an antique tea pot like the ones we'd just being served from since we'd decided to have our own tea party this Thursday. No luck there though so I think just the boring ceramic one shall have to do.

The way home was slightly more interesting, living in the middle of nowhere means there aren't many signs to help you get back there. I recognised straight away when we made a wrong turn and was feeling extremely proud of myself for getting us back on track until 20 minutes later we'd done a complete circle and were back to where we'd made he mistake in the first place. Luckilly we managed to find the missed turn that time round though.

For the first outing I think we did rather well though, although it may be a much harder task making it to Alnwick Castle (the outside of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films!) on Friday as I believe that shall take about 2 hours. It'll be worth it if we make it to see the battle reconstructions though! Fingers crossed ready.