The kids finally get it

The reason why we came that is!

I’m not entirely sure that the kids really understood why we were coming to UK, I mean they knew it was to see their relations, but the bigger picture than that – the EXPERIENCE – was beyond what they could envisage, despite knowing our plans in advance.  I suspect they were thinking that our ultimate plan was to torture them by making them sit together in the back seat of the car for long periods of time while their parents debated about whether the sat-nav voice lady actually knew where she was going or not!

After 3 days here they got it!

They got it at a castle.

As Stig and I navigated the ‘new’ one-way road system around the small town we knew, we distracted the kids by asking them to look out for the castle. It is a fairly large landmark after all.

The reaction was what we wanted “wow it’s huge” was the most they could say as their jaws dropped and they momentarily stopped arguing over seat space and device time. It got even better as we went around the castle – one absorbed the history and the stories, one wanted to keep going round the ramparts so he could imagine himself as a knight defending the castle, and one just liked climbing in and out of the moat (no water of course!). They were buzzing so we were buzzing!

We wanted them to realise the world is bigger than NZ and even if we left now, we have succeeded in that! Not only that – we are having fun doing it J!

Framlingham Castle