I’m feeling generally quite apathetic and removed from all around me at the moment. No real idea why and hopefully it won’t last – normally this feeling precedes some big change so if so let’s hope it’s a positive one eh?
Today we met up with our friends Mel, Liam and Lily at Paradise Park for the day as it is half term so L & L are off school.
First thing we read some books, had some cuddles, I did some washing, got quiche out to defrost for dinner and made a picnic. The children played with geomags, cuddly toys, lots of bits of tissues and some small Wallace and Gromit toys. We were running late (aren’t we always 😉 ) as I decided to tidy up before we went out rather than leave it to come home to, so I did the geomags as that always causes much sighing and huffing from the children and got them to put toys in a tidy pile (Tarly) and put all scraps of shredded tissue in the bin (Davies) – I then asked them to get their shoes and very cutely Davies put his own on and then did Tarly’s for her 🙂 Even cuter than helping was the way he talked her through what he was doing.
They played in the car all the way there and then had a great time running round with L & L. We did the dinosaur bits, the planet Earth stuff, whizzed round all the educational stuff, looked at the cacti and then spent ages in the gardens. They were running a half term competition to spot 20 odd gnomes hidden round the place with a flag of a country next to them. The countries were all listed as anagrams to solve and then hand in. We didn’t have a pen so didn’t bother writing them down but they all enjoyed spotting flags and gnomes. I was pleased that Davies identified the German flag too (Badgers). We have a flag cards game somewhere which I must try and remember to dig out tomorrow to follow up a spark of interest in them.
There was a small wooden decking area with a wooden pirate ship and a tower with a bell to ring which they stopped at and played at for about 15 minutes and then we went to the picnic area and had our lunch. Davies and Liam had a round of crazy golf – Liam’s dad plays golf and Liam is hugely competitive anyway so I think Davies with his very strange one handed barely managed to make contact with the ball most of the time let alone came anywhere near getting the ball in the hole in under 10 shots was not the most ideal competitor but he seemed to enjoy it anyway 🙂 We then had tea / coffee / ice creams in the cafe before heading back in to the indoor arcade – y bit to play on the games machines there before eventually heading for home.
Hama beads were requested when we got home so I spent about an hour looking at tents on ebay while they made patterns / played with / scattered about in a random fashion with the beads. They are clearly in some sort of late night rut as it was getting on for 9pm before they were asleep. 🙄
Tomorrow I have the doctors at 8.30am so we need to be about early and then we are meeting up with Julie and Lucy (and any other HE folk who appear) at the park with picnics, so fingers crossed there will be further physical exhaustion to make for an earlier night tomorrow.
Sounds like a good day over there, LOL at the crazy golf.
Hope they conk out early for you
Comment by Ali — 31 May 2006 @ 1:38 pm