On Holiday with the Brett Pack

WEll here we are in Great yarmouth at the Haven Wild Duck Site. It's been an eventful start to our holidays. We left home at 1pm yesterday and Silly sat nav took us all the way down the M6 to Liverpool before heading us East across the M62. A journey which I reckoned should have taken us just over 4 hours over the A66 and down the A1 took nearly 6 hours and we arrived at our CL at 7pm after stopping off for a Burger king to stave off the hunger pangs. Not too bad a wee place and the attraction was definitely upped by the apearance of a tiny little black cat who was the most affectionate little thing. I think she was pregnant but later on she appeared with the cutest little fluff ball of a kitten in tow. Awwwwwwww!! He was gorgeous and a little ball of tabby fluff with huge eyes and ears. I was ready to take him home with me. About 6 weeks old I reckon and I assume he was hers as he kept disappearing into the bushes as he was very timid and she would come to us for a pet and then chirrup to him almost as if to say " Come on it's all right they won't hurt you." but he only ever got brave enough to sniff the very tips of my fingers.
The girls loved it.
So this morning we got up and organised and hitched up the car only for me to notice a really noisy metallic vibration coming from underneath the car. Tim looked and lo and behold the heat shield had only detached itself from the exhaust. That's nowneeding fixed with some new bolts and large washers. So off we'll trek tomorrow to find a Kwik Fit or something.
Another long drive to Great Yarmouth saw us arriving at 3pm. Sat nav had wanted to take us over via King's Lynn from the A1 but I defied her and told Tim to go straight down the A1 to Cambridge and head for the A14 and it cut an hour off the time SAt Nav had given us.
Site seems ok but boy, is it busy. Not chaotic but busy anyway. we had a wee pop over to the entertainment complex to see what it was all about and it's mainly all aimed the younger kids up to around 9.30 ish so we left after playing prize bingo and took the kids to the swing park for a last burn of their energy. That'll ensure a lie in for us tomorrow hopefully.
So now we're in the awning, the kettle's on and the kids are all in bed.
And do you know what the best thing is? The sun has shone on us all day. we had one sharp shower around the Lake district area yesterday afternoon and nothing since then. It's been lovely today - we even got he gas BBQ plumbed in to the external gas pont and had a nice BBQ for dinner.

Well, that's all for today so hopefully more on our travels in a day or two.
Take care all!

Have a lovely day!