holidays
Olivia’s school broke up in the middle of June and she doesn’t go back until the middle of September – which is a long time to be entertained!
She spent the first couple of weeks catching up on sleep but got bored towards the end of it. Gabe had been doing a club (which she should have done) but she didn’t want to.
We went to Mallorca for a family holiday last week – Olivia was spoilt rotten by just about everybody there and enjoyed diving into the pool to collect money thrown in. She got given money by her great grandmother (nana shmana) and loved going to the tourist tat shops to buy overprice nick nacks. She had a hole burning in her pocket as far as money was concerned! Before leaving we bought an oversized ensaimda, which is a mallorcan specialty which she loves for breakfast. I thought it disappointing, I’ve had better on mainland Spain, but it went down well with O.
Now we’re back in Vilanova and she’s started a horseriding club (lucky girl!). Of all the clubs on offer she really really wanted to do this one. It sounds really good – on her first day there was just herself and her friend, Ruby, so they got real personal attention. More people have joined the group now. They started out bareback riding and it seems more about getting to know and be comfortable around horses than the prescriptive type of horse riding lesson.
The holidays continue to stretch ahead, with nana Pauline coming out with Ray as the next ‘event’.
