Scarborough 2010

As you know every summer us Savage's take a trip to Scarborough.. we've done it 3 years running now, I'm not quite sure why..

We never intended to be one of those families that takes the same holiday ever year to the same place on the same dates etc and in fact we varied it up a little this time by going at a different time AND staying in a different place too...mmhmm, I like to live dangerously, shocking isnt it? lol

Anyway, at the caravan park at the Blue Dolphin (which we LOVE btw) we have a regular van with a little bit of a grassy area that the kids play in but this year we'd left it too late because we were originally going to Scotland.. but of course all that changed when I decided to have a nervous breakdown in the middle of my driving thing..lol

SO Scarborough it was again.. we decided to rent a flat in the centre of town on the Esplanade.. beautiful views, beach at the bottom of the hill.. even a cliff lift to get up and down and 2 weeks for less than half the price that we'd pay at the Haven resort. Winner!!

It was a winner too.. we had a great time. The first week my Mum and John came with us and we mercilessly made my Mother miserable by making her experience all things chav... here.. have a look.


Mum on a bus!


In a pound shop!!!

Poor Mum.. but she got her own back when it started to rain one day and out of her bag she pulled a plastic rain hood and put it on!!! I must stress (or otherwise she might actually kill me and bury me in the garden) that she did it for a joke and she DOES NOT normally wear one of the "old lady hats"... I can also tell you though that she was that impressed with how it kept the water off her hair that she kept it on until she got home.. yes she walked through town with it on.. gonna have to call her "Mabel" in future for sure..lol


"Mabel".

Other things that happened.. some great comments..

there was the day we were on the beach making sandcastles and Rich told the kids to "Watch where you're throwing all that snow..." er... snow? I think you'll find thats wrong dear..

and there was the moment when Heather watched a lady being pushed by her husband in a wheelchair and asked my Mother "Why don't you get one of those pushchairs Nana? Then Grandad John can push you around all day and you'd never have to walk again!!"

Angelina: "Oh No.. the Bog Horn is ringing!!"

mm.. Richard had a few "moments"..

yes. there was the "paper bag incident".. which was most amusing to Mum and I..

We were at the Filey Bird Garden and Petting Zoo for the day, its a great day out and the kids love it.. regular readers will remember last year when Princess Heather fed the pig that snotted on her, she was less than amused. Well they had so much fun last time that they wanted to return and so we did, we bought animal feed in little paper bags and everything was great until one of the kids dropped an empty bag and the breeze took it away..

"Rich!! get that bag will you??" I say and he bends down to reach the bag at his feet.. and the wind blew it.. he shuffled a few steps forward and bent to grab it and the wind took it again.. Rich shuffles forward, stooping like an old man trying to get the bag and the wind keeps taking it and he shuffles some more.. well by the time he got it the rest of us were on the floor in stitches and floods of tears giggling at the muppet chasing the bag.. heheh was brilliant, classic Rich at his spasmodic best.

Then there was the football incident.. I've swear I have never seen anything as funny in my whole life.
There we were, minding our own business just walking on the beach one day and up ahead there was an old guy kicking a ball around with his grandson, just a light football.. not a big heavy leather one but not as light as a beach ball..
We're walking towards them and he looked directly at Rich (- so it was even as if he hadn't seen him) and he kicked the ball.. whether he expected Rich to move or the ball to curve around him or what I dunno.. but it didn't..noooo it hit him full on in the face and even bounced off his head with a really loud "boing" sound to it.

Y'know sometimes when something so shocking happens and you just don't know how to react?? In that moment you don't really know what happened or why it did and you're left open mouthed looking a little like this guy??



Hmm Rich had that look about him too.. he stood, totally shocked and his mouth open as the old guy (who look a teeny bit worried..)picked up the ball and said "oops. sorry mate" and buggers off!!

So I'm trying really REALLY hard not to laugh and say "are u ok?" and Jake just starts with this big belly laugh..and that was it.. Jake was giggling, I was laughing so much I was crying.. I had to run to the public bathroom cos I thought I was gonna pee myself, the girls were laughing and Rich is telling me to "shut the f*ck up biatch".

The best part was I had said to him that very morning how disappointed I was that he hadn't done anything stupid over the last few days.. infact, since the paperbag incident the week before, no sea gulls had crapped on him or anything and then that happened.. and I didn't stop laughing for days, and every time someone mentioned it I was crying again.. my mum phoned that evening (cos she only stayed the first week) and I couldn't speak to tell her the tale for laughing so much.

It was brilliant! A total comedic highlight and I doubt any of us will forget it in a hurry..

So.. what else? Well.. there was the Sea Life Centre, the beach, the swimming pool at Filey, the lighthouse, the grave of Anne Bronte, the sandcastles...

Toy Story 3 at the cinema... (completely hilarious and not at all spoiled by a certain loud voiced "Angelic" child of mine shouting "Daddy!!! Gimme those fruit pastels!!!" honest!! lol),

there was the day we found "Sebastian" the Hermit Crab in the rock pools, the fun fair, the boat trip..

the ball pool..






the mad rooster



Angelina on the "medieval naughty step" ("Don't you dare think lady, that just because we're in the middle of medieval ruins on top of a big hill in Scarborough that I can't find a bloody step to sit your butt on Madam...now park it!!") and the random bloke laughing as she gave me her best sulky face


Shocker isn't it?? LOL

Heather licking the bus shelter window... why?!?!?



walking the pretend pets in the park..



Jake meeting the donkey also called Jake..



then this..



and this..



and this..




I think those smiles say it all really...

here, have a slideshow..

Bring on next year!!!!!!!

Lazytown came to Scarborough..

I decided the other day that I ought to transfer all the stuff from my mobile phone to the computer, I do this quite regularly now cos I always have my phone to hand and it records some of our families most precious moments and I've lost phones or broken them and lost the memories with them before so now I upload to the computer so it wont happen again.

Anyway..I've found lots of stuff on it this time that I'd forgotten about (so there'll be lots of blogging over the next few days) but this one here is a particular favourite..it still makes me giggle like crazy - you'll hear me in the back ground..lol
A few days before we left for our summer holiday the kids (yes that includes Richard) had been watching Lazytown, they were having their usual sporting fun and enjoying a game of baseball... Stephanie has to prepare by... well Angie does it perfectly.. and apparently thats what baseball is. Enjoy.

Savage's on Tour 2009!!!

She looks thrilled doesn't she? Angelina that is... she bitched and moaned her way through 2 weeks in Scarborough..bless her little cottons. I can't wait until she's grown and has her own bitch-child..lol

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the Savage's have been on tour again. This time we've taken in (or should I say "taken OVER") Scarborough, Filey, Bridlington and the Blue Dolphin Caravan Park.

We've had great fun... kite flying, bungee jumping trampolining (Jake not me..lol), sandcastle building (we all know how Rich loves sandcastles from last year...so rock n roll), sea life centre..

and we had a few scary moments... like getting attacked on Bridlington beach by a killer swarm of hornets for which I blame Richard entirely cos I didnt want to go to f*ckin Bridlington in the first place.

Jake finally learned to ride a bike without stabilisers... he's not really bothered for his bike.. begged me to buy it, just couldn't be arsed to learn how to ride it properly..lol

so much has happened I think there's too much to get it all down here so I saved you the best bits, lets call them the "highlights", here's a few....

First day there we ended up at Scarborough beach, kids went straight into the sea and Tracey and I spent the afternoon drying their clothes on the railings whilst they ate chips..dropped in and covered in sand of course. Zakk dropped his sausage in the sand and gave it to Rich.. without bothering to tell him ha!

Heather, my quiet little princess asserted herself in the ball pool when another child tried to climb up the slide she had decided to come down, hands on hips and in her loudest voice came "I am coming down here now!", poor lad didnt know what to do...lol. Angelina conquered a rope bridge she was eyeing up last year and Jake did the same with the monkey bars that had thwarted him for days...lol

Rich decided the kids should watch "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" one quiet afternoon... that lasted about 10 minutes before they all buggered off outside and left the grown ups ooh-ing and ahh-ing over their childhood memories....sad buggers arent we? lol

Rich bought a bird book and Heather became obsessed... she can name every bird in the book and is in love with sea gulls... strange child.

Filey petting zoo and bird garden was a winner!!! until the pigs.... lol
The kids were allowed to feed the animals and Heather went at that happily, she fed everything in sight..even the pigs, although I think she wished she hadn't. Lil piggy decided to take the food and then sneeze a muddy, snotty mess all over her little hand. Needless to say Princess Heather was less than impressed (see pic) and the dramatics began with screams of disgust from her (and Angelina). She doesnt "do" pigs anymore...lol

As usual Rich (flypaper for freaks) picked up a number of weirdos.. there was the stray old guy who made it his mission to discover things we could do "for free!!!" with the kids on our holidays and the Geordie rockers from the caravan opposite (they were great mates, they talked about pizza delivery and AC/DC n all sorts ;) lol) and the other geordie who used to come across to chat whilst his kids played out with ours. I wandered outside to deliver a brew to my hubby just as he asked if we ever went to "the club". "NO!" I said as I slammed the cup down and quickly turned round and went back inside. oh no.. no Phoenix Nights club for me thank you.

Tracey, Shona & Zakk went home after the first week... Shona got shit on by a seagull (someone always does) this pleased Rich immensely cos it wasnt him...lol and that is about it really..

there are as always pics (as you can see) and some "jen's kid-isms" which I'm sure you'll love...lol

enjoy.

Heather: "Pigs do NOT snot on Princesses.. do they Mummy?"

Zakk: "Jake, do your Dad's feet smell??" Jake "Ooooooooh yeah!"
Zakk: "My Dad's do too....My Dad is always looking for food"
Jake: "That's what Dad's do"

Heather: (in the shower) "LOOK!!! Mummy look at the soap!! I've got a soap penis!!!"

Angelina: "Auntie Tracey...where is my father?"

Heather: "Its a peneneneguine fawlcom."

Angelina: "No I'm sorry, I can't eat that... this egg is the wrong colour"

Zakk: "Mummy.. does your back still hurt?"
Tracey: "Yeah"
Zakk: "Why?"
Tracey: "Cos I'm old
Zakk: "You might die!!!!"

Heather: "It's hot chocolate... its made out of chocolate and out of "hot" thats why its called hot chocolate Lina..."

Heather: (at the sea life centre) "Daddy look!! The baby Turbans (turbots) are swimming over to say hello!!"

Angelina: (in a very loud voice in the sea life centre toilet cubicle, with a massive queue waiting) "Mummy, why do ladies have hairy fluffs? Do all those ladies out there have hairy fluffs too?"

Heather: "Ohh look at that.."
Zakk: "Yeah..it's a lady bird..... I wee'd on a lady bird like that once."