This week has been busy so I have not had much of a chance for updates. The kids are back in school, I am back to work, but we are also still trying to do some fun things with Papa and Ganny. Monday we went to Styal Estate and Quarry Mill Bank, yesterday was rainy and cold so hubby took them to Trafford Centre and today turned out fairly nice so we went to Tatton Park. All of these places have been mentioned in previous posts so I won't spend a lot of time recapping them. Today though, we found out that the mansion did not open at Tatton until 1:00 p.m. so we went into Knutsford for lunch, ate at a great Italian restuarant and then, on a whim, walked in The Sweet Shoppe. Sweets are what they call candy in England and we were truly acting like kids in a candy store. We were all giggling and walking from candy display to candy display trying to figure out what to buy. And it doesn't stop there - we were barely out of the store and all four of us were stuffing our faces with our treasured sweets. We would have never let Bean and Gerbie do that but here we all were walking down the streets sampling these treats and sharing with each other and giggling about it. Hopped up on our sugar high - we headed back to Tatton to view the mansion where we saw some beautiful deer - picture above. After walking around the mansion and the grounds and buying some sticky toffee pudding for an after dinner treat tonight, we decided to go back to The Sweet Shoppe (yes, you read that correctly), for more candy. A great time was had by all, but I think we are all coming down from our sugar high now. Oh and by the way - the kids still have not had any of the sweets.
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