Our Day Out

hi everyone hope you are all keeping well and thanks for still bothering to read my nonsense.

i shall start with our trip to the garden centre yesterday, just a short ride in the car down a litle country lane to a beautiful garden centre, i was wandering around quite happy through the plants until Graham pointed out the frogs under the plants !!! me and frogs do not get along, so from a distance i choose a couple of plants, which graham had to retrive from the aisles for me...and according to John next dooe the plants we have purchased out "diplodinas " !!! they look very much like an Hibiscus to me.
We then drove round to A Sector on Camposol to the DIY store and got some paint to start decorating and also some white screening which we have put across the front gates so as when the dogs arrive they will not be sticking their noses through the gate and hopefully not seeing through will help them not to bark...planted the plants in pots..and then had a sleep in the afternoon...it was really hot yesterday and it was the first day that both Graham and I overdone the sun alittle even though we had factor 30 on.

And as for today when we got up I asked Graham which he would prefer to either start decorating or take a trip to Ikea in Murcia....he thought about it for maybe 2 seconds and opted for Ikea, I have to admit I was dreading the drive as it is about 50 minutes away via motorways...off we set in the little Matiz ( Dolores i have called her ) and it all went really well until the last 10 minutes when we took the wrong turning off the motoway and ended up in the city centre on a roundabout with what seemed like 20 lanes of traffic coming from all ways....tense is not the word....we managed to get out the city without hitting anyone or anything and got back on the motorway and turned off at the next junction...the correct one...
Ikea in Murcia is the same as any Ikea in England..Graham looked very content walking around with his yellow Ikea bag..until he realised this was not going to be big enough so he upgraded to a trolley...which was full to the top by the time we left...we did manage a coffee and pizza in Ikea although i would have preffered the meatballs.....
I am really proud of myself for making this journey as to me it was a really daunting experience driving in a new country in a new car without the faintest idea of which direction to go...we got there and we got home...what alot we have achieved in our first week...or at least to me i think we have..
Tomorrow it is time to get on with the painting...no more day trips till it is done....
Today is one of the first days where i got a bit wobbly about missing home...I think it was the stress of the driving etc...but I felt i coild really do with sitting in Mum and Dads conservatory having a coffee with them and having a natter, although we speak on the phone each day it is not the same, saying that I know we have made the right decision and that I would get times when it got a bit emotional...shake myself up and get a grip !!!!!
chat again soon