Thursday we celebrated Sacha's 16th birthday with Pizza at Rays.
Claire made the sponge birthday cake just as Sacha likes it.

Ruby started her lead training today ready for her to be ready to go on the ground next Thursday, she was not impressed.

Ruby is growing fast now and is learning fast from Cassie.
Ruby has now got to the point where she thinks she will sleep in a big bed like Cassie.
So this week we have bought Cassie a new bed and given Ruby the old one as she still has a tendency to chew.

 Ruby is now growing into a proper little dog now copying Cassie.
We think Cassie has accepted Ruby now having frantic run around's with each other.

 I was erecting a storage shed today until Cassie decided the base was her outside bed.
Ruby has definitely found her feet and decided to take over Cassie's bed.
It was great to see Cassie and Ruby playing together tonight, but we are still keeping a close eye for any trouble.

Cassie has started to accept that Ruby is here to stay and has started to play with her.
Ruby meanwhile has settled in well and is now not making screaming noises at night.

 Yesterday Claire and Darren put on a Halloween party to celebrate Maisies fifth birthday.
The kids enjoyed the fun and games, possibly the adults too.

 Before picking up Ruby on Sunday we celebrated Hilary's sister in laws sixtieth birthday at a party in Harlow

 Now we have Ruby we are having early starts so much so that Cassie is getting her walks earlier.
So much so that the mist has not cleared and the cobwebs still have the dew on them.

 Yesterday we picked up our fifth crew member from Helen Withey in Diss.
Ray, Sacha, and ourselves stopped off for some thing to eat in an American Diner before we returned home.
Ruby travelled fairly well in the car but that didn't prepare us for the sleepless night that laid ahead for us.

This evening we celebrated Maisie's fifth birthday after she had been to school.
Ray and Sacha joined us to celebrate.

Cassie looking fed up as we start the winter work on the boat.

 

As the sun sets on our summer trip 2015 we are now moored in Mercia Marina getting the boat ready for winter.

Whilst we were in Burton on Trent Hilary took the chance to visit her step mum and dad.

We are currently moored at Burton on Trent where we are going to stay for a couple of days.
We have just two more hours journey time before our summer trip is officially over.

 After a five hour cruise to Fradley Junction it was great to have a couple of pints in the pub with a roaring fire to warm us up.

 Today we tackled the locks at Atherstone sharing the cruising between us.
There were a lot of boats coming up the lock so speeded up our journey to Fazley Junction tonight.

 As we approached Charity Dock at Bedworth it is always interesting see the theme in Garden.
This time it was Halloween.