Day 8

  Grimsby, United Kingdom
Friday, September 26, 2008

I woke up at 8.30 this morning and after sending some emails off to my friends I got dressed and ate breakfast. At 10am mum and I left the house with Aunty Pat and Uncle Graham to visit the cemetery. It took around 10 minutes to drive there and we spent an hour visiting the graves of my mum's family. It took us awhile but we eventually found all the graves and after tidying them up and leaving flowers we headed back home.
 

Cricket

We returned home and once everyone was ready we headed off to the 'People's Park' to play cricket.            We played girls against boys or Celeste, me and a very unenthused Bronte against Noah, Uncle Graham and dad. We didn't really score which was lucky because even with girls' rules, we still didn't have a chance of beating the boys. We had a load of fun. Noah took a ball to the chest and I missed and easy catch. Bronte let about 10 balls roll right passed her and dad dropped his jumper when I threw it at him, but all in all, we had a great time.
 

Dad

When Aunty Pat and mum returned from their walk, the two of them, Celeste and Bronte decided to walk home which dad, Noah, Uncle Graham and I finished off our game of cricket. Surprisingly, even though we only finished 10 minutes afterwards, the girls managed to beat us home. We sat down in the house for 15 minutes before we hopped back in the car and headed down to the beach for lunch. We ate at a fish 'n' chips restaurant called Steel. The food there was fantastic.
 
Once everyone had finished eating, we headed off to the arcade while mum and Aunty Pat decided to go shopping.

Noah at the arcade

Celeste and I again hopped on the dance game before we all became interested in the pointless games of pushing the money through the slots to win absolutely nothing. After we had used all our coins we headed for a walk along the pier before returning to find mum and Aunty Pat. We walked back to the car headed home to begin packing for London. Most people headed to bed for a snooze while I decided to pack my suitcase before I hopped on the computer to update my travelpod, download my photos and chat to my friends back in Melbourne.
 
Later that night we were greeted by Leo, Elaine and Jacob who had come around to say goodbye before we left for London. We decided to order Chinese Food for dinner as no one felt like going out. We had spring rolls, beef and tomato and my favourite, chicken and cashews. At 9pm we said goodbye to Leo, Elaine and Jacob and then got into packing. After packing the 3 suitcases we were going to be taking with us we hung out and brought in the last loads of washing before having showers and heading off to bed.