The lake of lurve...

What a lovely weekend! Think I was a bit drunk and over excited on Friday when I last posted. Here are some more details.

 

I've been mithering her for ages about getting married, but we've always stressed about the money, so nothing happened.

 

When I was away in Swizzy she started shopping around for a flash hotel, didn't mind where - it just had to be nice. Think like one of these boutique hotel jobs. I didn't know anything about it - very exciting. We both worked from home on Friday, taking the afternoon off to travel. She programmed sat nav - all I had to do was drive and follow directions. It was soon apparent that we were going to the Lakes. Growing up in Liverpool, I went to the Lakes a lot as a nipper, and am very fond of it.

 

Arrived at our hotel in heavy rain and thank god it was really nice. Whenever you book a hotel you always worry that it might be a dive, but not this one - it was lovely - linthwaite house, just above windermere (normally, I would be very disdainful about windermere as a place to stay, but we were well out of town, so it was fine). Our room was lovely, log fires (in reception I mean), cosy without being kitsch and no chintz. Happy. We're enjoying our room and being excited when she hands me a mystery parcel... it's a photo album, containing pictures documenting our 8 years together - pics from the clubbing days, from when I had bleached hair (!), on holiday in various places, etc etc. Its a lovely thing. The last page is a cut out red heart with gold writing on it, and that gold writing has the big question...

 

I'm psyched out of my mind and absolutely delighted. Yes, yes and yes again! She's even sneaked a bottle of champers into her bag, so we tuck into that whilst texting loads of people. I feel so elated - this must be what it feels like to climb 8b!

 

We enjoy an amazing meal in the hotel restaurant that evening, get pleasantly drunk and make the most of the fire whilst the rain lashes down outside.

 

The weather wasn't much better on saturday but we managed to get out to Grizedale forest for a bit of biking. Half the forest was closed for some rally to take place, but there was still plenty to do. Drizzly showers on the way round, but not too bad, and great to get out for a bit. Had a look round Ambleside and Grasmere in the afternoon before returning to the hotel to get ready for tea. Ate at Lucys in Ambleside that night, which was again very pleasant - tapas type of place. Sunday we walked (sour milk ghyll) and headed home about 1300.

 

Thanks to all who texted and emailed and commented on the blog! Dont know when it will be, but for those of you who have recently gotten married, I am going to be sniffing around trying to find out what you did and how much it cost you...

 

Anyway, back to business! Plan to go to the Foundry tonight. Ned has mentioned their board tomorrow, but was going to leave it tomorrow and try to do routes on weds, will speak to her. Thursday day planning to do something, friday off, saturday back out hopefully.