We rounded out the Christmas holidays with a couple of cool days.
Tuesday was spent at Auntie Christines, we watched some films and ate some chocolate...we like!
Yeah, Mary Poppins was really good.
Wednesday Mum was off with us. We had a proper low key 'with Mum' morning, involving her doing lots of washing and us playing loads of computer games.
When Dad got home at lunchtime we loaded up and headed to the Coral Reef for a spot of swimming.
Much excitment on my part, not that it lasted long, as soon as I got in the car I fell asleep. Woke up quickly enough once we got there though.
Being as most schools had already gone back it was lovely and quiet in there, even if we did have to wait for the slides to open.
Slides? Did someone say slides? I rode them all on my own, even went up the stairs without Mum or Dad .
I kept an eye on her so it was okay.
Best of all though, by half four they were completely dark inside and you had no idea where you were going, I loved it.
It was back to school on Thursday.
This was considerably cheered up with an invite to Hugo's forthcoming birthday party for me.
We weren't too upset to be going back if truth be told, even if we did say otherwise when asked. I was right back into my reading, well for a bit anyway.
Thats more of a 'bit' than I was.
Friday's school day was cut short by me being collected at lunch time to go to the hospital for a blood test. I was quite the celebrity leaving while veryone was having lunchtime play outside.
I had to have a full day at school still.
I didn't get away with not having to go to the fisrst week of swimming lessons though...boo! I didn not want to go.
I was of course really looking forward to it. When we arrived we saw Eva (my friend from nursery).
And her brother Edward, my friend from nursery, who just so happened to be in the same class as me. Add that to a teacher I decided I really liked and I was well up for it. I was brilliant as well. You'll have to take my word for it though as Dad was otherwise engaged and didn't see anything.....
Yeah, I don't know what went wrong but i decided i'd rather cuddle Dad than go in the pool. I latched onto him and would not let go. Even when Abi turned up and just so happened to be in the same class as me, I wasn't having it. Luckily I had the same teacher as last rterm even though I have gone up a group so she knew I was usually really good. Eventually I decided I would give it a go (only after exasperating Dad who didn't know what to do with me). Within a few minutes I was loving it.
As a reward for being so brave and good at the hospital I got to choose a treat for that night, there was a difficult decision to be made between Pizza Hut and Pizza Express....the ice cream factory was too much of a temptation to resist so the Hut it was. There were a couple of older kids from school in there as well as Louise from my class and an older girl in a really cool Frank Turner t-shirt.
We went to a butterfly farm thingy on Saturday near Swindon, we had our new christmas camera's primed and ready for action:
As soon as we went through the door we walked straight into Talia from my class at school so that was pretty cool. We charged around together having a great time.
I took the more considered approach, the place was like a massive greenhouse to keep it warm enough for the butterflies. There were loads of plants and stuff to make it interesting and there were butterfies everywhere, flying really close and even landing on a ladies head!
As well as the butterflies there were some other small animals, these guinea pigs were up for a cuddle:
I gave my advice on care of guinea pigs, I declared that you shouldn't punch them , or they might scratch your face. Mum thought this was hysterical for some reason?
This was probably my favourtie specimen (My photo by the way) a massice butterlfy that looked like it was just emerging from it's cocoon:
There was a load of fish in a pond too, they were really greedy and loved the food we threw them:
Yeah, they were proper greedy, splashing all over each other:
There was also an outside paddock, there were some very vocal Otters, goats, pigs and various birds. Best of all though was my turkey friend here:
I am actually able to speak turkese you know! We had quite a conversation, me and Noel. All the way around the paddock in fact.
There was also Meerkats, lovely lovley meerkats. There were a few playing outside, but most of them were all in their house huddled up in a massive ball of fur, ears and tails. I loved them.
I loved the one on gaurd, when he stood up, his head disappeared into the heat lamp shade, we were surprised he didn't burn his nose!
As usual with these winter visits to places like this we were the only ones there at afternoon feeding time so the keeper lady gave us a special guided tour of the animals.
The Otters got raw fish, peanuts and boild eggs for dinner.
The meerkats got a lot of fruit and veg to eat (my kind of dinner).
And then the finale, she let the super muddy pigs out of their pen for a run around the paddock. We loved it, even if we were mildly terrified of them, what with their size and well, muddiness!
Sunday was a bit of a snooze fest as we got dragged around some well boring shops, the highlight had to be watching Take me Out on the computer as the series had started again on Saturday night. Mum and I are very pleased about that.
Then it was back to school on Monday for a proper full week. I had another very uncharacteristic wobble and didn't want Mum to leave me there. We're having challenge week this week with a visiting clown apparently...I hate clowns......
And i've been embroiled in a bit of a party tussle. Tegan, Alastair and Tilly are having a joint birthday party in a few weeks time and Tilly has been telling me i'm not invited. This is in rather stark contrast to Tegan and Alastair who most definatley want me there.......I think she may end up disappointed on this one!
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