Last Friday we drove to the beach at Allonby. It's not actually the sea though, it's the Solway Firth. A little map to help you understand where it is! I marked Allonby with an "X".
You can actually see Scotland across the water from there on a clear day. However, Friday was far from clear. It was the only cloudy day this week but it was still nice out. We had lunch at Jack's Surf Bar which is just a typical English pub so I'm not really sure what's with the name. Daddy won Little Man a small stuffed dolphin from one of those claw machines.
Then we went down to the beach. The tide was out and the tide goes way out so we didn't go very far down and instead let the little man play in the rocks because he freakin loves rocks! We brought a bucket and spade and fork but he wasn't interested in the sand much at all. As a matter of fact, as soon as he had sand on his hands he held them up and said, "Tissue! Tissue!"
He spent ages collecting rocks in his bucket. I'm not sure what the criteria was for a rock to be worthy of being picked up but he seemed to know what he was looking for. The bucket got so heavy that Daddy had to carry it for him.
Before we left we stopped at Twentyman's for ice cream. The homemade ice cream there is famous in Cumbria. Anytime you mention you've been to Allonby the first thing people will ask is, "Did you get some ice cream?"
It was a really nice day out. It's been awhile since we've had one. I'm glad spring is here.
