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Weekend in Devon

I had a great weekend in Devon. I went down to see my little sister and really good friends of the family she now lives with. Veronica and Peter are friends of my moms and have been really good to us - hence Kathleen living there now. We spent the first evening in, had a yummy stew (Veronica is the best cook!) and played my favourite game - Taboo :)
If you haven't played the game - GET IT! so much fun!
On Saturday we had a nice lie in before heading off to Teignmouth. It was sooo cold! We had planned on doing hill sprints in the morning but woke up too late.


By the seaside in Teignmouth with Kathleen
Veronica is part of an Amateur dramatic society called SBADS. They took part in a festival on Saturday  at The Carlton Theatre in Teignmouth, which involved 5 other acts and we all went to watch it for the day. The play Veronica was in is called 'A life sentence' which is a one act play written by Mark Seamon. It is about a lady who puts her story across about the difficulty and loss of having a husband suffering Dementia. It was very sad and I cried like a baby!

The ticket for the festival

After the first 3 plays we went to a lovely restaurant called 'The Colloseum' and the food was delicious - this is what I wanted to write about really!( http://www.colosseumitalian.co.uk/)
it looked lovely inside and outside
They opened early especially as they knew we only had a short time in order to get back to the play. The waitress was really efficient - got orders in quick and there was hardly a wait for the food. For starters I shared muscles with Michelle. I had the lamb Cutlet for mains which was really delicious, then finished off with a panacotta I shared with Kathleen. Was very nice!

Lamb Cutlet
We then went back to the Theatre for the final production, it was an all day event and didn't get back home until about 11pm! Although reallllyyyy tired Kathleen and I managed to get in some phonejacker prank calls to Amy (other sister) and insisted we watched Paranormal activity 3 - it was really scary!

I didn't manage to do any fitness this weekend unfortunately but I'm sure that wont kill me, I had a great time - love visiting the Brown's :)







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