Soon we were all ready to set off for Eastbourne for our annual trip for Corinne's birthday. We went in two cars. 5 up in Batty's car with Chippy and Emily following. Once parked up, we went to the pub first, The Buccaneer, for a quick drink. They always have a good beer selection there. It was soon time to wander over the road to the ice cream shop and meet up with everyone else. Their ice creams are really good and it is always difficult to choose one. Emily enjoyed her cup of ice cream. After ice creams, we had a slow wander down to the sea front to walk along to the pier. We had a play down at the water's edge. At the pier, we got chips. “Special” Dave was very embarrassing, having his photo taken with a special police officer and asking her if she wanted a chip several times, and a couple who were dressed up for the parade. We let Charlotte look after “special” Dave, if only she could finish giggling. Kat was having a “Kat-in-a-hat” day including 3 separate hats. Her Dad's hat in the ice cream shop, and when we found another pub, the very nice firework guys let her borrow more hats. We walked down to the sea front to make sure that we got a good place to watch the procession and fireworks from. We took over two long benches right on the sea front moving them to the front of the path so that we could sit and the normal people couldn't stand in front of us. We were joined by couple of friends who live relatively local. The procession went along the path below and they were quite difficult to see. Jack Sparrow character was good though. The fireworks were excellent. We will be extending our annual ice cream birthday trip to include the fireworks every year.
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