Boxing day.
(Written by Emily)
Most people do a lot of post-Christmas shopping with all these big sales... We were NOT those people.
Today we drove around Belfast with Andrew and Gillian. First we drove into Ballybeen and saw the house mum grew up in (photos to come on a later date), we went through Belfast city centre and saw the Titanic Quarter (the Titanic was built in the docks of Belfast, something that took Northern Ireland 100 years to be proud of, since it sunk on it's maiden voyage in 1911). We drove up the Shankill road and past the church (Ballysillan Presbyterian) where Granny and Granda got married, and further up the road to Ligoniel where granny grew up. We saw the park where granny played as a young girl and the street (and roughly where their house was before it was knocked down) she lived in.
We were out for about an hour and a half, and stopped at a shopping centre on the way past to have a quick look. We didn't find anything.
We had dinner and after that went to visit Stephen and Rebekah and their two kids. Stephen and Rebekah brought my cousin Nicholas and I out a few times when I was there 6 and a half years ago. They now have two kids - Ethan (2 and a half years) and Alix (4 months) - and I was excited to meet Alix as she is the only person over here that granny and granda don't know! I know family that granny and granda don't ;)
Linda and Lisa were there as well, Stephen mixed me drink with Fanta and ...spiced rum, which ended up tasting like ice cream :)
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