We're off on Tour!!!!!!!!

Scarborough '08.

CHAVTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!

The Savage's have been on Tour!!!!

So, after everything that has happened lately and the school holidays looming, we decided that we needed a break. We booked a secret holiday to the Blue Dolphin and we invited Tracey, Shona and Zakk (who was also in the dark until the last minute), at 3pm on the 18th July I picked Jake up from school as per usual, it was the last day so he was already excited about having 6 weeks off which was great for me as he babbled all the way home about how he didnt have to get up in the morning etc.

So we got home, he got changed out of his uniform and we pretty much set off straight away, met Tracey and the kids at Forster Sq train station in Bradford and finally told them all what we were up to,

Excitement wasn't the word for it, I think they might have exploded if it hadn't been for the fact that the train was pulling into the station and we didn't have time for jumping around on the platform!

The first highlight of our week was Zakk. His little face when the driver announced the next station stop, he was shocked and excited all rolled into one! I almost peed my pants giggling at him and he continued with this all the way there so the journey was fun too and thankfully short - all those kids on a train could have been a nightmare!!!

So we get there and we're looking for our caravan, bear in mind this is the first holiday we've paid for ourselves, we usually go away with mum...lol so when we find this luxury caravan that I have paid for Tracey and I dont believe it. It had a veranda for fucks sake. A veranda!!!!!!!!! So there we are standing outside arguing over this caravan which was virtually a house, 3 bedrooms, separate toilet and bathroom, kitchen, living room etc... the lot and Tracey and I are standing outside with our mouths open.

"This can't be ours Richard, its too nice..." say I looking around for a chav version thats obviously going to be our real home for the next 8 days... ut no... it was indeed ours, in we ran and the kettle went on.

"fag?" says Tracey handing me a nicorette chewing gum and heading for the veranda with 2 cups of coffee.

"Winner!" says I.

and so it continued...out came the football, kids kicking it around on the grassy bit outside that was bigger than my back garden and the week began.

We've had a really really good time and yes, I have to admit I'm surprised. The Blue Dolphin Caravan park wasn't really my idea of a brilliantly relaxing place to go with beautiful scenery etc that was going to chase away the sadness of the last few weeks BUT it offered me something else... something that I'm glad I accepted now.

It offered me the chance to watch my children go wild and have fun and mental they did go too!!!

I didnt have to do anything if I didnt want to, or I could join in. I could take my children to places that my father took me at their age, I could watch them enjoy how I'd enjoyed and I could create memories with them that they will always remember... bit like he did with me.

And it was nice, I mixed my old memories with the new ones I was making... the first time I stepped on to Scarborough beach in I don't know how many years and the sights that took my breath away, the scenery WAS beautiful and I DID remember and I also felt at home too..as well as the return of that familiar feeling I get when that cool breeze touches my cheeks and blows the hair from my face. Maybe he was there with us... maybe not, I don't know but either way my shoulders released some of the tense knots they were holding if only for a few days.

There were moments when I thought it was too soon and I felt guilt for enjoying myself and I maybe shouldn't have gone, like standing on the wet beach with bare feet at Filey with the waves gently bathing my toes and then sharply pulling back away from me I did wish that they would take me with them and just wash me away... but only for a second... probably due to the fact that a certain naked blond child (also known as Zakk) was stood next to me peeing in the sea and bringing me back down to Earth again as only a child could know how lol.

I think my one of my favourite parts was flying the kite on the grassy hill behind the park. The clouds parted and the late afternoon sun's rays shone down like a scene from a heavenly painting... it was truly beautiful and eerily calming for me.

Maybe there were 9 of us there that week, instead of 8 we paid for...heh don't tell the Blue Dolphin!! ;)

Am I a chav? Hell yes it looks that way, I think I shall call the kids Jason, Kylie and Dannii in future and I shall be known as Shaz!!!

Was it worth it? read up... do i need to answer?

Would we go again?? Definitely.... watch this space!

xx