Day 23

  Grimsby, England, United Kingdom
Friday, October 10, 2008

I was woken at 8.30 this morning by the banging and clanging of the construction that had started up again across the road. I headed downstairs for breakfast and chatted to Sophie on MSN. At 9am mum headed out for the day with Bernadette and Aunty Pat while I got dressed and packed my bag for the day. Since our trip to London didn't end up happening, when I was ready I got into the car and dad drove me down to Sophie's who had been given the day off school today. When I got there we headed up to Sophie's room while dad checked his emails in the study. We decided that today we would head round to Aunty Shelia's to film a music video with us and all the kids.
 
After dad left we hopped onto the computer and searched youtube to choose our song. We settled on Girls Night Out by Miley Cyrus and after watching the video clip we headed upstairs to choose outfits for everyone to wear. We sorted out and colour coordinated everyone's outfits before packing them up in a bag to take with us today. When we had all the clothes organized we hopped back on the computer to talk on MSN before we flopped on the couch to watch Gilmore Girls. Sophie's dad turned up at 12.10 to get ready for his game of golf with dad later that day. 20 minutes later Sophie's mum arrived to run us into town. We grabbed our bag full of clothes, makeup and jewelry and hopped in the car.
 
When we arrived in town, Sophie took me to some of her favourite shops including Topshop, Rivers and Bank. We headed upstairs took Warehouse where we tried on a few tops and ended up buying one each, thankfully dad had left me with some money. While we were shopping we bumped into Aunty Shelia's best friend Rose and we promised we would stop by later.

The 6 kids

 Sophie found some jewelry that when well with her top and brought that as well to wear out tonight. After purchasing our tops we headed back downstairs to a shop to buy cookies to take to Aunty Shelia's with us before sitting down at the bus stop. We waited for 15 minutes before the 7 bus pulled up at the J stand.
 
We sat upstairs on the bus and traveled for 15 minutes before getting off the bus at what we thought was the right stuff. When we realized we had no idea where we were Sophie rang Aunty Shelia to try and figure out how to get to her house.

Skipping

Thankfully when we reached the end of the street Sophie knew where we were and after 10 minutes of walking we arrived at Aunty Shelia's. We found everyone sitting at the table around the back playing a game. We were very glad Aunty Shelia had food for us because we decided not to get lunch while we were out because we knew she would feed us, regardless of if we had had lunch or not. I had pasta for lunch with crisps, cookies and chocolates for dessert.
 
Once we were all fed Sophie and I handed out the outfits and we all got ready for our music video. We set up the badminton nets and had a game before we pulled it down to make a skipping rope. We did a little bit of filming for the video and took heaps of photos on the camera.

With Aunty Shelia

At 4pm Damon turned up to take the kids home. Once he had left with Celeste, Bronte and Noah in trip one, Sophie, Nikita and I went over to Rose's to say hello. We talked to Rose until we saw Uncle Graham come in the front gate to pick up Nikita and after we said goodbye we returned to Aunty Shelia's to grab our new tops to show Rose. Aunty Shelia locked up and came back round to Rose's with us. We chatted to her for about half an hour before we had to leave to get ready for the disco tonight.
 
We walked back to Aunty Shelia's and rang Melanie to get someone to come down and pick her up. Laura turned up for us 5 minutes later and after saying goodbye we returned to Sophie's. We headed upstairs to get ready for the disco, both of us wearing the new tops we had brought today. Once we were dressed we practiced the song we would be performing at the party tomorrow night and packed my bag.

The Girls

When dad and Dean returned from their golf game, Sophie and I said goodbye and returned home with dad. I was thrilled to see Aunty Margaret and Uncle Philip at Willingham Street when we returned home who had arrived today in Grimsby. I finished getting ready for the disco and after saying goodbye to Aunty Margaret and Uncle Philip; we left for the disco following Aunty Pat and Uncle Graham's car.
 
It took us just over 30 minutes to drive there but when we pulled up we couldn't find the disco anywhere. Turned out that we were the disco - the DJ hadn't turned up yet.

The kids

We eventually found out that the DJ had mixed up the nights and thought it was tomorrow so he wasn't going to make it. After we had eaten our jacket potatoes for dinner, Sophie, Celeste, Nikita, Bronte and I got up to dance. We spent most of the night dancing to ABBA and pop hits which were really the only good CD's that they could find in the church the disco was being held. After dessert which was a range of different cakes, I got up to sing life's what you make it followed by Bronte singing Girls Night Out and Uncle Graham got up to sing as well.
 

The boys

We spent the rest of the night singing and dancing along to all our favourite songs that came on but at 10.30pm it was time for us to head home. We said goodbye to Noah who was going to spend the night at Jacob's then piled in the car and returned home. When we arrived back at the house we all quickly packed our backpacks and hopped back in the car to travel to Sophie's to spend the night. When we arrived at 11.30pm we took our bags upstairs and set up our beds in Sophie's room. We pulled all the blankets and pillows we could find into her room and laid them out across the floor to make enough bedding for everyone to sleep in.

At 3 in the morning

Celeste and I took the bed while Bronte, Nikita and Sophie slept on the floor.
 
We said goodnight to mum and dad who headed off home and to Melanie and Dean as they headed off to bed. We had to be as quiet as we could while we played 'Knowing me, knowing you' which is a game where you have to try and answer questions about each person. We played the board game for 2 hours and when we heard Laura pull in the driveway from work we quickly hid the board game, turned off the lights and pretended to be sleeping as Dean would get up when he heard Laura come in. After Dean went back to bed Laura came in and we convinced her to play some of the game with us. At 2.45am after we had finished the game we said goodnight to Laura who sensibly headed off to bed while we packed up and turned the lights off. We laid in bed talking for ages while Bronte fell off to sleep and after another hour or so we all fell asleep as well.