Wednesday 21 October 2009

We're sinking.......

Today we had an early start with Jess shouting ‘we’re sinking, we’re sinking’. It was only a false alarm. Just the toilet being flushed. After our traumatic start we were back on our feet with a lovely breakfast of cereal and eggy bread. We all gathered round the table and finally were told we could sail. YIPPEE!!!!!!! Starboard went down to the kitchen and made tiffin (a load of sugary niceness) whilst Port prepared the boat for sailing on our big voyage to Fleetwood. After that we all got kitted out and prepared ourselves for the longest wait of our lives, because the lock gates were meant to open at 11:45 but we ended up waiting until 12:15 when the lock keeper finally arrived to open the gates. We were finally on the move! We set sail into the Irish Sea all the way to Fleetwood. We had loads of fun and got some great pictures especially when we got to drive the boat. When we were nearly at Fleetwood we got call on the radio to say someone had stolen our parking space (The cheek) so as a result of that we had quite a bit of trouble parking the boat. When everything was eventually done we all had a relax until problem number two arrived. We were having a nice sunbathe when Jess was told to open a window. She decided to go inside to do it but instead dropped the hatch on her fingers. OUCH. We were all in the kitchen looking at jesses blue sausage fingers. Mary, Ian and James made the decision that jess should be taken on a 20 minute walk to hospital. After a long nail biting wait of two hours jess finally returned with her blue sausage finger safely taped together. They were thankfully not broken but very badly bruised she is now making the fastest recovery ever and is just as hyper as usual. We ended the day with a fantastic meal of turkey and broccoli korma followed by apple crumble without the crumble and custard. Afterwards we played cards and eventually after the best day yet we went to bed.

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