Summer Time Chills

We've had a lovely time chilling out with mamein and papichen.  Just hanging around and making a nuisance of ourselves.

Close enough for government work

Chillin' Manillin'

That sofa is a bit small!

"Look at these Doh!nuts!"

Sunbathing on the deck 

Moscow Gingers!

Mum checking out her new virtual magazines.

Corrina I need some help!

Corrina, can you just come here for a moment?

Big kids sorting out their Kinder Egg surprises.

Stuart the Minion handler!

My Birthday

Today is my 38th Birthday and I have had a lovely time.  

I was a little worse for wear this morning, I struggled to sleep after two or three Brandy Sours, just when I did drift off I was awoken by an almighty crash.  We were smack bang in the middle of a summer storm.  

It was a doozy, the whole roof was shaking.  The back garden resembled a small lake, amusingly within a couple of hours (when my parents woke up it was all gone!  

I have just chilled out today, which is very difficult in the middle of this heatwave.  As a treat we went to the Eis Cafe and had some yummy ice creams.

No It's Not Santa's Grotto!

GO and I spent the morning relaxing in the Salz Grotte.  We were escorted to our chairs and wrapped up in our snuggly warm blankets.

All wrapped up

We snuggle down and listened to the relaxing fountains.

Snug as a bug in a rug

Inhaling the salty air, according to the brochure; 45 minutes in the salt room is like a day at the seaside.  At the end of our sessions, you waiting I the recovery room where you are given a cup of tea.

I honestly felt so much better all day after spending time in the Grotte.

Lovely Lovely People

This has been the summer of visitations and felicitations, after all of the stresses and strains of working in the little village school I made a conscious effort to go and see the people that I love and who make me feel good about myself.
Some of them are near by and I see on a regular basis, but some special people live a little bit further away, so seeing them requires lots of planning and forethought.  Whoever I am spending time with I always enjoy myself and wish I could stay longer.

SalzGrotto

10am Thursday morning and I find myself relaxing on a sun lounger, nothing strange there it is after all the height of summer and we are basking in a gorgeous (so say some) heat wave.  

However I am lying wrapped in a fleecy basket in a salt grotto!  Another one of my mamilein's great ideas.

The thought behind it is that the ions and particles in the salt have health benefits, Roger so far, and that sitting in a room for 45 minutes will help people's psycho/physio well being.

The grotto is a cool, dark room.  

There are huge bricks made of Himalayan salt stacked on the sides of the wall, behind each wall is a coloured light.  Once the main room lights are switched on they salt walls emit a soft glow.  In the corner of the grotto is a 'waterfall' to help sooth troubled minds.  Alongside this in the background they play meditation style music, on a loop.

So far so relaxing, very new age an hippy.  Then we arrived, I found the whole experience very relaxing and could feel all of my tensions drifting away, except for the fact the I really needed the toilet it was bliss. After a few minutes I opened my eyes and saw, what can only be described as, a giant salt fog drifting over towards us from the fountain.  It was getting thicker and thicker and felt quite menacing.  I nudged mama and showed her.  The response I got was "next time we sit over there, (indicating the loungers across the room where the little old men were snoring) in candy feel anything!"   I drifted off into a snooze, trying not to think about my bladder or hear the fountain.  Shortly there after I noticed a fidgeting from my right, then I looked over and saw mama squirming.  Without missing a best mama said in her best five year old "I'm bored now!"

What are we doing today?

Every morning in Buende it's the same question, "what are we doing today?" The response is always the same, "what do YOU want to do today?"  Normally I'm quite chilled and will go wherever mum wats to go but today my response was "anywhere air conditioned!"

I have never been a sun worshipper I have always preferred the cooler/frozen seasons and have always struggled I regulate my body temperature (PCOS?) These past few weeks however, I have been glowing like buggery.  I step out of the shower and I'm already dripping, they say that if you are sweating then your body is working properly, but this is ridiculous.

So off we go to Werre Park, not the biggest or most dynamic I shopping experiences, but I love it.  It has everything I need under one air conditioned roof; C&A, Edeka, and an Eis Cafe.