Our Travels: Day 26/27/28- Errands/an all day Visit/Church

Hello to another day x2. Friday we did some baking, more cleaning, some shopping and sight seeing. Saturday we headed back to Lakenheath because Mat had a meeting. The kids and I visited with some friends and all enjoyed each others company.

The kids have been dying to bake apple pie using the apples that we have picked in the back yard. I sent them out to pick some more and then we sliced and peeled them and started our baking. We made some cupcake size apple pies as well as a loaf. The apples are very sour so we used cinnamon and sugar to sweeten them up a bit. Once they were finished they tasted pretty good.

Peterborough Cathedral

Setting up for the Italian Festival in Peterborough

The reason we came to Peterborough... Nandos. Mat's new favourite chicken Eatery in England.

http://www.nandos.com/

If you are close to Virginia, Washington DC or Maryland, you can visit a Nandos there.

Saturday we got up early and had to be in Lakenheath early for Mat to go to his Knights of Columbus meeting. Every month they have their meeting at a different base. This month was Lakenheath so next will be probably be Mildenhall and then back to Alconbury. While him and his friends were at the meeting the kids and I stayed with friends we had in Arizona. The kids ran around and played while Erin and I sat and chatted. Once the boys were home, we had lunch and then took the kids to the park in Brandon. They ran all over the place there and then we took a walk and visited some wild ponies which scared the crap out of me because one kept coming over to us and following us. He was a pretty horse and it seemed like he just wanted attention but every sign we read before going into the pasture warned us not to touch the horses or try to feed them.

A swing at the park

The walk and the horse

Today we woke up and got ready for the day. I made a pancake breakfast with juice for the kids and coffee for the adults. Well, Mat made the coffee. While eating breakfast, Mathew was in a horrible mood but Mat made his bad attitude go away for a bit. Mat got a rude surprise. He took a drink of his coffee and voila, a fly had landed into his coffee and he almost swallowed it. Instead he ran to the sink... not getting there in time and spit the coffee all over the floor. Then, he started gagging! I laughed so hard! Mean me, I know! But you had to be here!

After Breakfast we got ready for Church and left to get there on time. We made it there with plenty of time to go. Today there were four baptisms. Last week there were two baptisms. It is nice to see all of these little ones being baptised.

After church we headed to the BX. They did not open until 11 so we headed to the commissary to get some shopping done, they also did not open until 11. Goodness gracious! So we went back to the BX and waited for them to open. We needed to get a nightlight ( We bought one for Mathew for his room from Tescos... unfortunately the box was empty!!), a thing for the shower to hold the soap and get it off of the ground, and printer ink and paper. Paige also decided to use some of her money on her first Monster High Doll. Here they are on sale so it did not cost her much and she had been begging for one since they first came out!

We then headed to the commissary. They were having a case lot sale there ( YES... a VERY small one!) but we also needed to get groceries so since we were there we did what we needed and got some good deals on several items that would last us a while...quick meals, veggies, toilet paper, paper towels, snacks, cereal.

Once we finished grocery shopping, we came home and put it all away. I was surprised that we found a place for everything. Especially the meat that we purchased that had to go in the freezer. I do not think we will ever get used to having such a small fridge/freezer!