Half Term Holidays – Tuesday

We woke up bright and early this morning, much to the disappointment of Mummy who had wanted a nice lie in! At 8am Mummy sent us in to UM and AA to see if they were awake, she feels that they need some practice in the “being woken up by children” department given that “Bob” is expected in February!

Once we had eaten breakfast, done some homework (much to our disgust) and waved AA off to work we went out to the shops to get some supplies – then it was time for another adventure with UM.

We arrived at Wellington Country Park much to the surprise of Mummy as she had thought we were going somewhere completely different and her and UM had got their wires well and truly crossed. When we arrived we just thought UM had taken us to a park similar to the one we had been to on Monday however we were soon delighted to discover than it was infact a huge park full of adventure play areas – the type of park that Tim would have loved to have played in!!

Our first adventure was in the snakes and ladder area which was made up of lots of different climbing apparatus and some slides and a HUGE slide that both Daniel and Emilie loved. At first Emilie had to be helped to get up onto the bottom rung of the ladder but she soon found the strength and determination that enabled her to climb the ladder herself resulting in a another go on the slide! Mummy managed to get some fantastic videos of us coming down the slide. After a good 30 minutes of climbing and sliding we decided to go and see what else was in the park and this is what we found:

Spinning tyres – UM pushed Dan & Em round in these – they sat in a tyre that was attached to a spring on the ground and then it wobbled as it went round and round – this wobbling and rotating was met with howls of laughter from both of them.

Huge red dinosaur – he was as tall as the trees and didn’t really seem to do a lot other than pose for photographs!

Wooden adventure trail – we all had lots of fun on the adventure trail including Mummy. Emilie did a fantastic impression of a jumping frog when she was leaping from wooden wobble board to wooden wobble board. Unfortunately in this area an injury was sustained by Daniel thanks to UM – the boys were playing on the spinning boards that had a big pole through the middle unfortunately when UM stepped off the spinning board the pole hit Dan in the cheek leaving a hideous red mark, UM being kind and caring as he is said “stop being a girl” – he soon took the remark back though when he saw the shiner that appeared shortly afterwards.

By now we were getting a little hungry despite devouring a bag of grapes on our walk round the park, so we headed off to the cafe for our lunch. We ate our lunch very quickly as we wanted to go and play on the tractor and on another adventure playground that we had seen on our way to the cafe.
Before we left the cafe we discovered that we could paint our own pottery, obviously Emilie being the budding artist that she is really wanted to do this – so we did! Emilie painted a beautiful ceramic heart and Daniel did a football shirt, needless to say it was red to signify his allegiance for Manchester United. Once the painting was completed we all headed off for the adventure playground to do lots more climbing and sliding.
Time flew by and before long it was time to leave the park as we had a date with AA at the bowling alley or balling alley as Emilie likes to call it!

We met AA at the bowling alley, Daniel and Emilie were very excited as it was the first time they had ever been bowling. Obviously Emilie needed some assistance as she is so small – so we had a special bowling ramp that she placed the ball on and then pushed it down the lane.

We loved bowling – Mummy got a strike on her first go, which she was very pleased with. Daniel had a very extravagant bowling method which usually ended with him lying on the floor and Emilie liked the pretty coloured bowls and was particularly pleased to discover that the lightest ball was pin – her favourite colour!!!

The match was very close and it looked like UM was going to win but much to his disgust Daniel bowled a spare on his last go and managed to beat UM by 3 points!!!

Sadly we then had to go back home, have dinner and baths before going to bed.