Our last day of the holidays.
And by special request and arrangement, Dad was on duty for the day.
I'd banned any bike related activities as well, so that put a whole new slant on his usual solo days out.
Indeed it did, I was quite open to a bit of bike related activity really but was up for anything.
We decided we should do something Mum wouldn't be interested in and with bikes out of the question , ice skating would be the perfect answer.
So we headed for Oxford Ice rink and got there just as it opened, we were well excited putting our skates on.
Especially me, as mine were well cool.
Well, the ice was seriously slippery, and seriously hard when you ended up on your bottom.
Indeed it was, I struggled a bit to begin with, so we went and got me a push along penguin. I was soon gliding along behind him with ease.
I ventured out on my own, clinging hold of the side to begin with before I found my feet and started to get around really quite well.
I decided i'd gone as far as I could with my little penguin friend and decided holding Dads hand was a much better option. I had mixed fortunes with this approach, as I did have spells of graceful gliding, but there was a lot of falling over, a real lot of falling over.
While all this was going on I was going about my business and doing lap after lap, building my confidence.
We managed well over an hour of skating before we decided that we should leave the ice with a full complement of fully functioning limbs.
It was great fun, mum woud have hated it.
She would have loved the next thing on the agenda though, Hinksey Park outdoor swimming pool.
I was well excited, i'm still mad keen on swimming.
It was so much nicer than the outdoor pool at Northcroft thats for sure.
Indeed it was, the changing rooms were nice and the pool looked really rather inviting.
It was even pretty warm water too, result!
We jumped, we splashed, we dived for our dive sticks.
Then we got out and a picnic by the side of the pool.
We were soon back in again though for more splashing and some stop watch time trials of various silly tasks.
Then it was a quick scooter ride around to the nearby park for a bit:
We stayed for a while, until we got bored of it, which just so happened to work out well as by the time we got back to Newbury it was time for my gymnastics.
Once we'd dropped her off we headed straight to the library, i'd finished my last two books for the summer reading challenge and I was seriously pleased with myself.
I marched in there as proud as punch and really relished going up to the lady on the counter to claim my certificate, my medal and my final game cards.
They then came pick me up once I was finished and it was off to get Mum before rounding out the day , and indeed the summer holidays with a trip to Pizza Hut.
What a way to end the holidays, perfect.
We've had such a cool break this year, we've done so much, been so many places and had so much fun.
Indeed we have, so thanks to everyone involved this year, you know who you are!
Wednesday
Well, obviously with yesterday being the last day of the holidays, today was the first day back to school.
I didn't want to go at all.
I did!
It was of course business as usual and we had no idea what we'd been doing all day when asked after school.
Nope, that's the rules though.
Although I did win two marbles for good behavior.
Thursday
I also got a marble on Thursday for sustained effort and enthusiasm during our history lesson. I even put the whole class right about the correct order of various historical era's.
At home, it's all been about Clash of Clans though, my latest Ipod game sensation. I've even got Mum and Dad to try this one out though I don't think they have quite as much enthusiasm about it as I do though.
Friday
The end of the school week, thank goodness for that.
I had swimming in the afternoon, but sadly we didn't ride this week.
And i'm struggling with the idea of Edward doing lessons again and not playing with me on the park!
There was an event on in town in the evening, called 'Ablaze'
We weren't sure what it was, but there was stuff on fire along the canal, it sounded too good to miss.
Although we nearly did, when we got to West Mills the queue was massive, right back to past the church. It looked a loooooong wait.
But in actual fact it moved pretty quickly and we were soon onto the tow path.
It was really rather cool, there were fairy lights along the trees, and braziers all along the middle of the canal.
Add to that people playing instruments and singing dotted along the route.
There were weird spinning things.
Everything looked so different with the flickering flames reflecting on the water.
The pond in the park was transformed:
Although the swans were not impressed:
The park really was quite something:
There was stuff onfire everywhere:
There was some weird music coming from the bandstand, Mum loved it, I did too, in fact I burst into a spontaneous dance routine as I watched the flames dancing all around me.
I sat down and took it all in:
We were really glad we went, even though after our first week back to school we were seriously worn out......
Saturday
Lazy morning after last nights outing.
Yeah, it was rather called for I reckon.
We headed into town for 'new term' haircuts.
And lunch in Costa (although i'm smuggling in very high quality Greggs sausage rolls for my main course).
I had Lois' party after that, ceramics painting at he garden centre like we did with Auntie Christine. While all the other girls picked ballerina's or mermaids to paint, I picked..........a Skull!
So we had a couple of hours to kill and ended up looking at the show house on the new race course housing development. I'd moved in within seconds of stepping through the door, how cool to be that close to all those horses!
They came to pick me up, I was soaked as Eva and I had darted outside while it was chucking it down with rain.
We went home and watched some Saturday night telly....
Yeah, Strictly come dancing.
And the Mum upset us by refusing to let us to go and babysit Darcey with her....not impressed. Even if she was already in bed.
Sunday
We had a walk up Beacon hill in the morning.
Yeah, it was a long way up, but we pretty much ran all the way up it.
There was of course the obligatory war based conversation from me, where would you attack or defend or spot advancing soldiers.
The view from the top really was worth the climb:
We had Auntie Trish coming round for tea.
So I helped Mum tidy up a bit.
We love having Auntie Trish round, we had a nice chat with her, performed song and dance routines for her.
And had a couple of games of cards with her after tea.
Monday
Back to school for our first full week.
But a least our after school clubs have started up again.
Yeah dancing was great fun, we danced to the Madness song Baggy Trousers and had to pretend to be really naughty...not too hard for us lot!
And I was back to cross country club, which has started earlier in the season than ever this year. They must be taking it more seriously or something, although we certainly didn't notice. It was as great fun as it always has been.
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