Hot hot hot!

Blimey it’s been hot! I’ve been going to bed in just my pants to keep cool (steady on now ladies). My skin has been much better since I went in the sea last month so I don’t have to scratch myself hardly at all now.
Saturday we went to a barbecue at Yanna and Fen’s:

They had some really smart toys and best of all they had their own little wooden house in the garden, although no one would come in there with me as it was so hot. Melissa is great, she gave me beans and everything for my tea.
Sunday Uncle Slim and Auntie Trace came round to put their tent up in the garden:

It was as big as out house I reckon. I ‘helped’ Slim sort the ropes out….
They’re going on holiday in it next week and wanted to make sure it was all okay before they went. Dad even cooked them some dinner (a roast the silly fool, in that heat!) and we had a play in the garden.

Mum is off work so on Monday afternoon we went to the Coral Reef swimming again. They must have known something was up from the start as I couldn’t really be bothered with the small childrens slide, I had my sights set much higher….the flume rides! After climbing endless stairs we got to the top of the tower and there were funny tubes with water rushing down them. People were getting in them and zooming off before disappearing round a bend with a scream. It looked great. We sent mum off first and then I got on Dad’s lap and we were off……but really slowly. We splashed down (finally) in the pool at the bottom and I made sure we got another go…. This time was much better, he managed to get a right head of steam up and came flying out of the bottom bouncing off the sides like pinball before going right under water. I didn’t mind at all and wanted some more…we had about five goes in all before their tired old legs couldn’t carry me to the top anymore. On our trip around the pool I also noticed a tunnel and an open doorway I hadn’t seen before…we went through it and ended up outside, but still in the swimming pool! How weird is that? This bit was really good and I did a lot of really good swimming out here. After all the fun of the pool we went to a park at the lookout and I had Mum and Dad climbing and swinging after me all over the place, it was smart!
Today I went to see Grandma in hospital (she’s broken her foot) I took her some chocolate and a big picture of me and her to cheer her up, I know what the ladies like. She loved it and I entertained all the old dears on the ward before coming home for bed.
There’ll be no update next week as I’m off on my holidays tomorrow to Cornwall for a week and a half…so to keep you all sweet, have a look at some of my pre-blog web stuff on the following links and see how much I’ve grown:

http://uk.geocities.com/dhtraildigger/NEDSPICTURES04.HTML

http://uk.geocities.com/dhtraildigger/NEDABOUT04.HTML

http://uk.geocities.com/dhtraildigger/NEDWARMING.HTML

See you all soon!