What Fun You Can Have with Umbrellas, Ben and Jerries and a British Seaside

My two insane housemates and one insane banana-girl (Amy) who I was in Kenya with came to stay with me :) It was SO exciting to go and pick Annie up from the airport, Rebecca already sitting in the seat next to me and mocking my driving, and drive back to Bristol with them both in the car and bickering and laughing away at stupid things every few seconds.

The week:

-- Bath. A lot of sitting in a queue waiting for the carpark and trying to forget about the massive detour we made on the way, but also a lot of eating pizza, looking at Bath's nice grey architecture, 1/2 a litre of Ben and Jerries each, and then the resulting sugar high and a few hours of posing with umbrellas like Jane Austen.

-- Weston-Super-Mare. The day was sunny! We walked out almost until we could see the actual sea, and Rebecca discovered that bouncing around Baywatch style in Weston's lovely 'sand' is not such a great idea. She ended up with mud up to her knee. We ate chips and did the Kenyan shuffle dance on the sand :)

-- BANKSY and PRIMARK. Annie desperately wanted to see the Banksy exhibition, Rebecca desperately wanted to see the UK's second largest Primark. So we got up at 7am, sat on the street doing sudokus for two hours, then went around the Banksy exhibition (really, really good, I loved it), ate a tasty burger at Nandos for lunch, and then spent several hours in the new four-floor Primark! I bought clothes for the first time since being in England, because they were so wonderfully cheap that it felt like a good investment.

-- Getting mocked by comedians. We went to a comedy club on Friday night and I was mocked for being a vegetarian. Annie was mocked because the comedian asked if anyone was from far away places, and she's from Holland. Rebecca was mocked because when the comedian asked if anyone was from further away than Holland, Rebecca offered 'CAMBRIDGE!' Bless her.

-- Curling up in giant duvets watching Cinderella at midnight, eating dutch-snacks on toast, leaping on Annie simultaneously, teasing everyone for everything, fruit salad, and general LOVE.

I had such a good time. I really liked being able to show them where I worked, where I lived, what my friends and family were like, so that there felt like there was some kind of connection between my life in Kenya and my life here. To be able to talk about the last 6 months of my life, and KENYA in proper detail again was so good, and just to see them and sit around laughing with them again. I missed waking up and seeing them.