Tired, very tired.
Kai and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary sincewe started dating each other today.  As I said earlier, her present to me was a copy of Command and Conquer 3 – yes I’m a bloke and I’m fairly easy to buy for, either a computer game I don’t own and quite like the look of or something for the kitchen/house. My present to Kai though was a little trickier – well from my point of view at least. I was going to get her some of those wooden 3d puzzles that she seemed to enjoy playing with at a friends house but after a brief chat with her this proved to be a poor choice. So with my thinking cap on, I went off in search of something special for her. Now if you knwo Kai then you may know that for her the greatest gift I have given her to date, other than her laptop is her camera which I got for her Christmas. It struck me as I wandered about that Kai did not have a photo album, so I went for one of those, some 6″x4″ photo quality card paper and a caligraphy pen set. The idea being Kai could take photos on our anniversary, printout the ones she likes, stick em in her new album and then anotate them in pretty script.
So presents out the way we decided that we’d mark the day with a picnic. After some to-ing and fro-ing  we settled on a visit to Wales at the Brecon Beacons Mountain Visitor Centre. So nearly 2 hours later we arrived. We had a fantastic picnic lunch, walked for just over two hours over some stunning scenary, endured the kids whinging about being tired, climbed to the top of a hill at 1203 feet and enjoyed the view even more and then returned to the car. All in all it was a fantastic day and I’d recommend the hikes for everyone. We all had a good day. I’m exhausted now though, I drove about 170 miles in total, walked several miles with Kai and the kids but frankly it was all worth it! Tonight I’m going to relax with a beer and just snuggle with my beloved. Work tomorrow  - joy but with some luck we’ll have some friends over in the evening.