Day 18

  Coventry, England, United Kingdom
Sunday, October 5, 2008

I woke up at 9am this morning and began to get ready for breakfast. After showering, doing my hair and getting dressed I headed down with Celeste, Nikita, Noah and dad to breakfast. The choice for breakfast was huge, almost anything you could think of with the choice of a continental and or English breakfast. While most headed for the cereal and fruit I chose the English breakfast which consisted of eggs, bacon, baked beans and hash browns. Dad returned with the biggest plate of food I had ever seen and to no surprise he ate everything on his plate. Nikita ordered a hot chocolate and once she had finished eating, we headed back up to our rooms to finish getting ready while dad chatted to one of the people working there about interest rates and property...boring.
 
When we returned to our room we cleaned our teeth and packed our stuff away in our suitcases. It was then a fairly relaxing morning of chatting to friends on MSN and watching hysterically funny British shows on TV. When it had reached just around lunchtime we walked out to the car and traveled 2 minutes to Carol's house. Carol, Bronte and mum were waiting for us when we arrived. We headed in and sat down while Bronte and mum finished getting ready. Mum had slept in until 10am because her and Carol had stayed up all night talking. 
 
Once we were all eventually ready we piled into the car and traveled just down to road for lunch. The restaurant had only just opened so there weren't many people there and we ended up getting fantastic seats at the back in a little section to ourselves. Not long after we arrived we were joined by Carol's brother Andy and his wife Yvonne and then by Carol's other brother David. We switched around sitting the adults at one end of the table and us 5 kids at the other. Nikita, Bronte and Noah got straight into the telling of jokes while I tried to catch onto the infamous 'incinerator story' that dad refuses to tell me about.
 
The food there was absolutely fantastic. I ordered 'kicking chicken' which was chicken and chips covered in a chill and garlic sauce. Although the meals were quite big, everyone ate everything on their plate and almost everyone made at least 1 trip to the salad bar. The dessert menus then came around and after the fantastic lunch no one was willing to hold back on the desserts. Nobody had really thought about the size the desserts would be and when they arrived they turned out to be the biggest desserts I had ever seen. They were served on the same sized plates that the lunch was served on and there was enough for 3 people to share 1 dessert and still be full to the brim.
 
After everyone had managed to eat their desserts we paid the bill and returned to Carol's house after 3 hours at the restaurant. While the adults chatted in the living room, the kids preferred to go on the computer, play with the dog or listen to our iPod's, which is really all we did for the rest of the evening. After another 3 hours of chatting, taking photos and videos and exchanging email addresses we finally said goodbye to Andy, Yvonne and David.
 
It was then time to think about dinner. Our lunch was so massive that we decided to settle for pizza for dinner, just a small snack to keep us going but enough for the people that were hungry. Dad and I headed 5 minutes down the road to the pizza place. The pizzas didn't take very long and we returned home about 15 minutes later. We ate while we watched the results show of Strictly Come Dancing. Almost as soon as we finished and cleared up we said goodbye to mum, Bronte and Carol and returned to the hotel. As it was still quite early when we got back to our rooms, we turned on the TV and watched the end of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire but turned it off when it got to the graveyard bit. After cleaning our teeth with switched the lights off and I watched a movie on my iPod before falling asleep.