BBQs and Frustration

Well, today was fun. The response and explanation of that sentence all depend on ones definition of 'fun'.

First thing, I was woken by my dad leaving at 6:30am to go to a car boot sale with his friend, Tim. In the morning, I was going to go running with my mum. Instead she said we would go in the evening, and I was okay with that. Then, after breakfast, we were going to go for the long anticipated bike-ride.

However, when we retrieved them, every bike had a flat tire except mine. We managed to pump Rosie's tire up, but we couldn't manage to do mums. Instead, Rosie and I rode our bikes, and mum walked with the dogs. It was fun, until I was chased halfway up a hill by a huge Labrador.

When we got home, mum said she needed to go shopping, and suggested I came. I agreed, unaware that Rosie was coming. She didn't shut up, and when I tried to listen to music, yelled at me. She then proceeded to yell at mum for listening to the Harry Potter audio book. I told her to read the book, if she was worried that she'd missed vital information. Her response was a thump on the shoulder.

It turned out that mum wanted to go to one of our rental houses because she had to meet someone there. We waited for half an hour, and they didn't turn up. We then left, and went shopping, with mum's assurance that she'd only be in the Super-Store for 'five minutes'. We came in with her, and two hours later, we left with a lot of things we didn't actually need.

For diner, we drove to the beach, and had a BBQ on the pebbles. My grandma came, which was okay, except when the tide came in. She kept getting scared that we were going to get cut off, when actually we had loads of room left. That was fun, until I wanted to take some photos with Rosie's camera, and she proceeded to shoot the exact same things that I had wanted to. When we got home, she pushed me out of the car, making me fall in the dirt, and twist my ankle. Instead of helping me up, my dad scolded me for getting his jumper dirty.

Yes, I would say today was 'fun'.