What a week!

It sure has been an action packed week.  When Caitlin was in hospital in June, I decided that we were going on holiday.  She needed a break and so did I.  We all did.  Something to take our minds off everything that had been going wrong.  So we dipped into our savings and booked a few days away to Salthill in Galway, a sea side resort in Ireland.  We set off last Friday and stopped off in Dublin at Caitlin's godmother's for the night.  Caitlin had a ball, with having three of her big cousins fussing over her, she never got bored!

Saturday morning we set off for Galway.  When we arrived it started raining.  Typical Irish weather!  But thankfully that was the only rain we got during our entire stay.

Our apartment was right along the promenade.  The fun fair was a five minute walk, as was the water world.  The aquarium, park and beach were right outside our front door.   It was fantastic.

Caitlin tried out lots of kids rides,

She particuarly loved the car ride at the amuzements.  All because Peppa Pig and her brother George were in the car with her!  Peppa Pig is one of Caitin's favourite shows, so she was more than happy to get into the car with them.

 She sat like this every time we let her have a go on it.  Just chilling.

The beach, as always, was a hit with Miss Caitlin,

The messier she got, the happier she was...

We decided not to take the pram when we went to the aqaurium.  Instead, we took Caitlin's walker.
She used it for all of about two minutes,

Before deciding it was much better to ditch the walker, and walk around holding Mummy and Daddy's hand.

She loved meeting all the fishies as she calls them,

And even decided she wanted to kiss them,

Even better, after the aquarium, we got to meet a good friend of mine, Dee.  It's weird how you can become friends with people you have never met.  But Dee has always been there for me, asking how Caitlin is when she wasn't well, and we would e-mail regularly.  Her little boy Cian hasn't got spina bifida, but he developed hydrocephalus after birth.  We always wanted to meet up with the kids, and as it happened, Dee was holidaying in Salthill the same week as us.  That's why I booked that week to go!

We met at the beach, but the tide was coming in so we made a quick exit to the park were Cian and Caitlin played together,

Dee, her husband Ger and Cian even popped round for breakfast the next morning before we had to leave.  

As much as Caitlin liked Cian, she wasn't sure about him going so close to her Peppa Pig Tea set.

But it all ended well.  And they said goodbye with a kiss.  

It was a brilliant and much needed holiday.  Roll on the next one!