Nedster's World now featuring Ellis!

I got a day away from school on Tuesday, some of us were picked for 'Geek Jam' at Park House school.  It was a day of computer related stuff.  We got to do all sorts of cool stuff including making our own game.  There were loads of other schools there too and I knew quite a few other kids from my various out of school activities which was nice.  Mum walked us up to Park House in the morning, Hugo came along with us too so the walk up there was certainly fun.
Now Ned has no rugby practice on Tuesdays he had to come with me to Gymnastics for the full duration.  He was a very unhappy boy about that.
Yeah, I seem to spend an increasing amount of time sat about in cars waiting for Ellis these days.  My request to got to Sainsbury's and look for Skylanders while Ellis was doing her gymnastics thing fell on deaf ears, instead we went to the post office, then Halfords and then the Specialized bike shop.  The bike shop was pretty cool though I have to admit.  Especially the Carbon Demo Troy Lee frame they had hanging up.
I had a rare non-early night as I managed to perform my morning duties in a timely fashion so that was quite a novelty.
We made my cupcakes for the school comic relief competition on Thursday.  They went very well it has to be said....
I made Ned sit in the car again on Wednesday for my ballet lesson, which I really love at the moment!
And while we sat in the car reading it was really quite nice and sunny....but it was also snowing at the same time!  How does that work?
Once tea was done and dusted it was time to ice and decorate my cakes.  I decided that I wanted to do a really nice low level stipple effect icing in bright red.  I was then going to add a silly face and a joke on a flag.  Sounded perfect, what could go wrong?
Too much red food colouring.
Yes, although the colour was fantastic, it tasted truly awful!
But they did look really good and the joke flags were funny.
So we decided we'd enter them anyway and just warn everyone not to eat them.

I was pretty pleased on Thursday then to get second place for my cakes.  In fact, everyone else seemed to think they tasted okay.
I rode Ned's race BMX to go and pick him up from after school dancing.  I loved it and made sure I told everyone who would listen that it was my borthers BMX and I was going to go racing on it!
We wore red to school on Friday for red nose day and in the afternoon we had an open afternoon to go through our learning logs with any parents who fancied coming in for a look.  We also had cakes that we made at school on sale, this was a pretty decent bribe as it turned out as there were loads of grown ups in our classroom.  Best of all we got to leave a whole ten minutes early.  
Which was a bit of a result as we had to get packed up and head off to Cornwall as soon as Mum was finished working.
We picked Andy up and hit the road.
With a picnic in the car and a lot of chatting to do.
This time we were staying with John and Sarah, and Tiger, their new cat.  
I was so excited.
We got there at about 9, so even though it was sort of past our bedtime we still managed to get stuck in to a full on Skylanders session, comparing our characters and getting some valuable tips from John, with his Yoda like wisdom on the subject.
Sarah wasted no time in getting me aquainted with Tiger, he was sooooo cute.  I got to sleep in Sarahs room with her too, this was brilliant, as not only did she have a lovely little camp bed for me and a brilliant cieling covered in glow in the dark stars that made it feel like you were outside but she also likes a chat!  Brilliant, she reckons the last time she looked at her clock was 1:20 am......
On saturday we played some more Skylanders and some Blur on the Xbox.
And I got to give tiger his breakfast and play some football with him.
Then we went to the races, Point to Point at Wadebridge showground:

I loved it of course, well, it was horses after all.  We stood in the middle of the track to watch the races themselves and you could see the whole track.  The ground was really soft and the hills in the course were really steep:

We had £5 each for betting purposes, I won on the second race and decided to stop while I was winning and kept my winnings and what was left of my original £5.
I also had a winner but kept on betting on all the races.
The weather was pretty wet, Mum took me back to the car before the last race.
I stuck it out until the bitter (cold) end.
We went back to warm up, have some tea and then get stuck in to some Just Dance action on the Wii and play some cards.
Interspersed with Tiger loving,
and Skylanders/Blur.
We had a bit of a lie in on Sunday morning.
Before heading over to the caravan so Andy could do a couple of odd jobs before the season starts.
And of course, because it was Cornwall, and indeed Treyarnon Bay, the sunshine came out:

It was so good to be back and be outside.  The site was actually quite busy with people getting things ready, the buzz of lawnmowers meant it even sounded like summer.

Andy and Mark ended up with a bit of a jaunt to Homebase to get some bits they needed, after a bit of a conflab it was decided that the best course of action for the rest of us would be to head off to the pub for lunch.
How cool, we got to get the seats in  the boot out and drive to the Harlyn Inn with a full complement of seven of us in the car!
They met us there and we had a bit of lunch and a lot of pudding before heading back to the caravan to finish off the jobs and then heading down to the beach.
Yes, we had to take Andy for his swim of course.
I decided to join him:

Yeah, I suppose it was a little bit cold, but I love it!
I decided to remain clothed:

I had to climb some rocks of course:

And there was also the matter of a game of Danish Longball:

It was pretty much like a full on holiday compressed into one day.
We headed back to John and Sarah's house to gather up our things and set off for home.
Andy called his Mum as we left, she said it had been chucking it down with snow all day in Newbury!
We couldn't believe it until we arrived home and could see it still lying about on the ground, how weird!
So we must say a massive thanks to John and Sarah for showing us such a good time (and Mark and Amy too).
Yes, thanks everyone, and you as well Tiger!
We were pretty tired specimens on Monday it has to be said.
Yep, we were indeed.
Not as much as Dad though who managed to sleep through bathtime rather convieniently.
We did get involved in some energetic stuff during the day though, we did a rather cool Bollywood inspired dance routine after school.
And I did cross country, putting in another strong performance!