We did football in PE and played Dodgeball at playtimes, I am enjoying the sport now we're back in the swing of things at school.
And I got my first reading book of the new term, which I know made Mum very happy.
Gymnastics was really good this week too, on the way there I was telling Dad that my favourite apparatus was the bars, and thats exactly what we did for most of the session.
Wednesday
I was very excited to be able to take Dad on a brief classroom tour when he came to pick me up. I showed him my new peg and where I sit now.
I got a letter from school all about our Ufton Court trip. The fact that we got a letter about it has ramped up the excitement level several notches so we're approaching fever pitch.
Thursday
I had my first after school dancing session of the new term, it went rather well and was a lot of fun.
Friday
Last day of the week, and it couldn't come soon enough for us.
We were both pretty whacked out after our first full week back.
I had enough left in the tank for swimming though.
And I had enough energy left to talk non stop to Edward and Eva's mum for half an hour pretty much without a breath.
Saturday
We packed up early and headed off for Brooklands museum.
Mum had the tickets as a Christmas present so it was high time we used them.
Apparently it was the first motor racing track in the country back in 1907, cool or what?
There were loads of cool things to look at, hidden away in sheds and buildings.
I loved the motorbikes.
And I loved my eye-spy book, it had all the things around the museum in it to tick off. Some were harder to find than others and were rewarded with more points accordingly.
I had little teddies to find among the exhibits, each one had a letter attached to it to spell out a word at the end. They were in some funny old places, one was even hanging upside down, from an upside down formula one car on the roof!
Here I am clutching my book next to the Napier Railton, the car that still holds the lap record for the fastest lap around the track.
I don't think theres much chance of anyone ever beating it now though, seeing as most of the track has gone.
In fact there was a Marks and Spencers on a bit of it.
I easily spotted the Bentley badge on this one!
I was amazed that all of the cars and the motor bikes had what looked like a litter tray underneath them, catching drops of oil from their engines.
The circuit was also used for bike racing and they had loads of old bikes from penny farthings through to boneshakers, choppers, BMX's, road bikes and mountain bikes. There was nothing on show i'd have fancied taking round the pump track though. Dad took great delight in pointing out the old bikes he used to have, a Raleigh Striker and a Raleigh Burner. I thought they looked a bit rubbish.
This one was pretty cool though, it wad called an Ellis!
We stopped for lunch which was in the old clubhouse. It had a pink room that the ladies used for reading apparently. It was rather nice, although there were plenty of photo's showing the ladies in their racing overalls And getting out on the track which is where I think I would have been given the choice.
There was also a particularly hard to spot item from my book in one of the cabinets in there, a Michelin man ornament....well spotted Mum, it was worth lots of points.
As well as the wheeled sport, the place was also used as an airfield so there were plenty of aeroplane things to see too.
They used to make sections of Concord there too, so we got to have a tour of their concord.
It was really cool, we couldn't believe how fast it used to go either. Or how hot it got when it flew, or that it grew 15cm in length due to this heat.
We lapped it all up, but really do wonder why it has to take so long for us to get to America these days?
We got to sit in the cabin while they played a video, detailing what is was like to fly in Concord.
It was pretty convincing too, I had to look out of the window several times to double check we hadn't actually taken off!
We went for a wander up to the section of track that still remains.
It was a lot steeper than it looks on this picture, as Dad can testify, having ended up on his backside twice!
In fact the only one of us who didn't end up getting a much closer look at the track surface than we wanted was mum.
Of course, being a race track, we had to have a run along it!
We then paid a visit to the London Bus museum, it was really rather good, loads of buses, all shiny and lovely.
I befriended one of the staff members to help me with my Eye Spy book and he took the chains of a normally closed bus so we could have a look around it.
It was well cool going upstairs on it!
According to my unticked pages of book, we needed to visit the aviation section next.
A massive shed full of all sorts of aeroplanes where we got to sit in the drivers seat of a harrier jet:
The man pointed out all the good switches and buttons for the rockets, guns, bombs and ejector seat.
I struggled to reach the foot pedals a bit but I reckon I could have flown it home no problem.
We also got to use the bomb drop simulator (after just about passing the maths test).
All I really had left to find then was some leftover war defences (the place was quite a target during the second world war due the planes being built there at the time). After a bit of a detour into the wilderness we found them and after a quick photo stop on the bridge we were done:
Instead of heading home though, we headed for an overnight hotel stop.
Brilliant, we do love a hotel trip.
Especially when there's a swimming pool on tap to help soothe our poor old tired legs and feet after walking around all day.
We had a great swim, and as usual ended up with the pool to ourselves, cue a series of high energy swimming races.
We headed back to the room for bed-slump-picnic:
We then had a group cuddle up session watching Saturday night tv.
Sadly there was no Strictly, so we had to make do with the X Factor and Keith Lemon doing though the keyhole instead.
We had a lovely lay in in the morning.
Then headed down for breakfast, we do love a hotel breakfast and never seem to tire of the novelty of being able to help ourselves to whatever we like.
Especially hot chocolate on tap!
There was time for another swim before we had to leave. Excellent!
We headed for home, I spent the rest of the day pottering about the house and designing the cover for my new school learning log.
While I went to see if Hugo was in and then spent the rest of the day playing on the computer with him.
Monday
Oh dear, I woke up at 4 am with a screaming ear ache. I'd been suffering with a bit of a cold as it was and this tipped me over the edge pretty much, there were plenty of tears and cuddle requests.
I also woke up with the most blocked up snotty nose of all time, although I didn't feel too bad otherwise.
I did, so no school for me, and a trip to the doctors instead. One bottle of medicine and a confirmed ear infection later I was on my way home again for some serious sofa time.
I had a good day at school, I won some golden time for being so good in assembly and really threw myself into after school dancing.
I spent the morning cuddling up to Mum and the the afternoon cuddling up to Dad. Poor me.
I even put myself to bed before tea was even dished up.
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