The Gallery - Holidays

This is my entry for the Gallery at Sticky Fingers. This week's prompt is Holidays. I struggled a bit with this one, because we haven't really had many holidays as a family because money has been short. In fact, as a family with all four of us, we have only been on one proper family holiday. We've been on short breaks as a family and as a couple, and we took Monkey away to Spain a couple of times when he was a baby but this holiday, in January 2009, was the only time we've been away together on a family holiday.

We went to the Algarve - Albufeira, to be more precise. There was an ulterior motive in our choice - my in-laws had gone there for 8 weeks and going there meant we have built-in babysitters. We stayed a complex that is partly timeshare so got subjected to the hard sell a bit, but all in all, it was great, apart from the children waking too early most days. The inlaws took them off our hands pretty much every other day, and even allowed us to do a day trip to Seville, a place I'd always wanted to visit, without them in tow. It was freezing there though - quite ironic when it is the hottest city in mainland Europe!

Whilst we were on holiday, it was my birthday. We went out for lunch as a family and then we went for a walk on the beach with the inlaws. The kids made me this cake. Do you like it?

(And yes, they got help with the writing - they are clever but not that clever!)