So it looks like summer is finally here, well for now anyway.
It's been lovely, dinner outside every night. I'm sure it helps to increase my appetite as well?
Having said that, it was pretty hot in the hall for Mr Gilhams sports club on Tuesday after school. I still enjoyed it though.
And while Ellis was cooped up indoors, Dad and I went out on our bikes. We didn't have anywhere in particular to go so we headed accross the fields until we ended up at a bridge over the A34. I love standing on bridges, watching the traffic zooming underneath. Waving at them down below makes it even more fun, especially when lorry drivers honk or people in convertibles wave both hands above their car!
We had a lovely barbecue for tea with loads of veggies for me...
....and chorizo for me!
Which i've decided I like as well now.
Dancing, another indoor hot activity on Wednesday.
While Dad and I found a shady bench to do my reading. A bit like eating, reading outside seems to be a much more pleasant experience. I did loads.
We had a visit from a real life farmer at school on Thursday, the most exciting bit was making our own sausages!
Then finally I had a much more cool and refreshing after school activity on Friday, swimming!
And seeing as I don't have to have lessons anymore, I got half an hour pf playing on the Ipod, brilliant!
I got on really well at swimming, I have a new coloured hat (yellow for level 3) and i'm proper keen on improving as much as I can.
It was also Alans birthday, so we had a trip to Pizza Hut in Reading.
Okay so that was pretty cool in itself, add to that we were giving Andy, Alan and Hayley a lift as well, meaning we had to sit in the very back seats!
Yanna and Fen came along too, we had a lovely time.
And we ate like you wouldn't believe. I had a bit of a result with my order being mixed up and ended up with two pizzas that I finished (after a garlic bread with cheese) and followed by two bowls of ice cream factory!
Happy birthday Alan!
We loaded up the car and waited for Owen, Laura and Andy to arrive on saturday mornng.
Yeah, after we'd popped into town to get the days free lego from the newspaper!
Anyway, we were off to Birmingham to watch the World BMX championships.
Dad was super excited, and i was pretty keen too!
I wasn't quite so enthralled with the whole thing but it was going to be a night away.
We got to Brum in time for lunch, and once Laura had found a car park that she could get her monster truck we met up at the pub for eats.
Lovely start to proceedings.
Shame the same couldn't be said for our hotel for the night. Mum really wasn't that pleased with it...we thought it was great though, even if we didn't have enough beds or bedding for us.
Just minor details Mum!
There were groups of riders on their race bikes, wearing their national jerseys just cruising the streets, it was pretty cool to see.
After a bit of wait outside the NIA we headed in, I think we were all pretty shocked at just how cool it looked when we got our first glimpse of the track and the all round set up:
We got good seats where we could see the whole track from. Practice was already underway and it looked brilliant.
The bikes and the helmets were so shiny under the lights.
They were doing massive jumps and going really fast and it was only practice!
The real racing soon started and the atmosphere was brilliant, especially if someone was racing in a GB jersey.
Although there were so many nationalities watching, it didn't matter who was winning, it was loud all night.
It was a bit of a disappointing start for the home riders with our top Male rider (Liam Phillips) crashing out right in front of us and breaking his collar bone on the first corner of his first race. Add to this Shanze Reade falling off while leading her quarter final and things definatley took a bit of a slump. Fortunately though Quillan Isodore restored the noise levels with a win in the 16 year old boys category.
There were some lovely stands selling stuff around the arena too, I had my eye on some rather lovely looking gold wheels and the Troy Lee helmet I tried on fitted a treat.
Add in inflatable banging things, sweets and doughnuts we had a good night.
Even though I was a bit tired by the end of it all.
We headed back to our luxury accommodation and hit the hay.
I decided to wake up at 5 am and have a good old spew as well, nice!
Breakfast was equally hilarious as getting in our room. Mum again thought it was pretty shocking but we quite liked drinking our juice of of great big tea mugs and the boiling hot bowls fresh from the dishwasher for our cereals.
We headed for home, via a quick photostop at the top of the car park to take in the Birmingham skyline:
Seeing as it was still scorchio and we'd spent most of the weekend inside, we had a family water pistol fight in the garden in the afternoon.
Yeah, I love a water pistol fight, it was brilliant.
Poppy didn't go much on it though.
And then Mum and I had a trip to the park...
While Dad and I slumped on the sofa instead
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