Holiday...Friday

I decided to act like a kid when we went to Jersey Pottery. After wandering around for a while and looking at the displays and the factory exhibition, I sat down in ‘Glaze craze’ and painted a mug. It was great fun, and despite the fact that everyone else in the room was below the age of 7 I enjoyed it immensely. Unfortunately I now have to wait for them to fire it and send me the finished article. I can’t wait to see what it looks like. Mum took some pictures of me doing it to compare how the colours of the glaze change when it is fired. After my potty spell, we had a sandwich for lunch and then went on a cruise that we had booked on Tuesday. It was around the south of the island, going into all the little bays and talking about the history and points of interest of the island. It was lovely. Calm and cool, and very interesting. Unfortunately most of my pictures didn’t turn out because of the movement of the boat.



We went back to Hectors fish and chips for tea and had a fish platter each.
The Moonlight battle of flowers parade started at 9pm. We watched the sunset while we waited for it to srtart, then the floats began to move. In the darkness, all lit up with tiny lights the floats looked quite ethereal, and despite the chilly wind, everyone, spectators and dancers and walkers alike all seemed in high spirits and a great carnival atmosphere was evident. I preferred the daylight parade myself, because the floats seemed more spectacular when seen in their full glory in the summer sun, but even in the half light they were beautiful. One float broke down half way round, which was saddening, and held things up for a while, but everyone took it in their stride as they tried to manoeuvre around it.
We were late to bed, and slept well indeed.