Tuesday
Mum had the rest of the week off, which meant we could keep doing cool stuff.
So today we went into town by bike with her.
I replenished my loom band stocks after visiting the entertainer and the works to make sure I got the best available deal.
And I spent some of my money on some Zooblies.
We got home in time for a visit from Auntie Christine and Darcey.
She loved my Zooblies.
Once they had gone we packed a picnic and went to pick Dad up from work.
We were heading straight for Legoland.
We hadn't been for a while as our tickets had run out ages ago.
Once we'd renewed our passes we were in, and we still had over three hours to enjoy there.
We went on the cars, the pirate boat, the brand new playground......
......the Atlantis submarine and the boating school:
It was good to be back:
Wednesday
We didn't have too much planned today, we had to be back in time for team Kennet.
We did however meet Dad in the park on his way home from work, we rode down again!
The real purpose of todays trip was to have a go on the boating lake.
Yeah, I wanted a kayak.
But I was really unsure, it looked quite tricky to me. I was convinced by everyone else that it was a good idea though (well, they were right about the zip wire).
It was great fun, we got used to it pretty quick and were soon zooming across the lake.
We then fed the ducks and swans, there were plenty of them:
The afternoon sort of ran away with us a bit, we had to shovel our tea down as quickly as possible before Team Kennet.
I'm sure thats just the sort of regime Usain Bolt has too.
It was team competitions week still, and for the icing on the cake Ellis and I were on the same team.
We loved that, though it would have been better to have Abi with us as well.
We came second this week, so no pin badge this time around.
I really want one of those...maybe next week!
Thursday
We couldn't decide on what film to go and watch at the cinema so we settled on getting the DVD of Rio 2.
And more importantly pick and mix from Tesco, which we are never allowed.
We loved the film.
We loved the sweets.
Then when Dad came home we went off to Avebury, to see the stones:
It was a pretty nice walk, the stones that were still left were massive:
We loved pondering their origins and what might have gone on here all those years ago.
The visitor centre had a rather cool connect four game outside.
And a daughts set, I gave Dad a right hiding at that.
We drove home via a couple of hillside white horses which was sort of cool too.
Friday
Trip into town, again by bike to get new shoes for the new school year.
The foot measuring thing was very sophisticated, like an Ipad gizmo thing.
I was a 12.5 F
And I was a 3.5 H.
We also had a visit to the new ice cream place in Parkway.
I'd been well excited about this for ages.
I was a cheap date, only having a scoop on a cone:
I wasn't, and went for the full on sundae:
Which I had to help him finish as his eyes were bigger than his belly.
Once Dad came home from work we loaded the beach things and headed for the seaside.
Well, we'd been back from Cornwall for 5 days and were starting to miss it a bit, so the Witterings seemed the next best thing.
We took the camping stove and a big packet of bacon:
It was delicious, pretty much my favourite meal, no doubt helped by the location.
There was a lengthy game of boules played.
Quite honestly, I played out of my skin and barely lost a game:
We couldn't possibly not go in the sea could we?
No way, the waves looked pretty good as well so we got the boards out too:
I was all over it, catching wave after wave after wave, I loved it.
I didn't do quite as well as Ned, but did enjoy a lovely warm cuddle from Mum once i'd wiggled out of my wetsuit.
We enjoyed a lovely sunset before heading home:
Saturday
After some careful internet research by Mum we came up with a bike ride for Saturday.
Yes, carefully picked to not be too far for my little legs.
So the Phoenix trail from Princes Risborough to Thame it was.
An old disused railway line like the Camel trail in Cornwall, so we should be pretty safe from any nasty hills.
We loved it, it was nice not to have to look out for traffic as we rode along.
And we saw plenty of cows, sheep, horses and pigs as we made our way.
But the fresh air made us hungry and pretty soon we'd found a suitable picnic stop:
Feeling refreshed we carried on, there were various interesting things along the way, like these railway signals you could flip up and down:
Obviously we were miles from any sort of toilets and I really needed a wee. I was eventually convinced to make a pitstop down a bank in amongst some blackberry bushes.
We made good progress and had pretty soon got to the outskirts of Thame:
I did a spot of modelling for a possible bike catalogue:
When we reached the end of the trail we made our way towards town.
I had a pretty epic crash, and ended up bumping my head on the pavement (albeit quite lightly). I was soon back on the bike though.
After a tip off from a local we found an ace park for a bit of a play and the second round of our picnic:
We had a quick look down Thame high street (looking for toilets) and then saddled up for the ride back.
Where we noticed people picking blackberries in the exact same spot I had my emergency wee!
It didn't take long to get back at all, we'd done 12 miles in total.
I was very pleased with myself.
Yeah, well done Ellis!
We had a well deserved saturday night slump in front of the telly.
Sunday
Well our good run of well cool activities had to come to an end, it was time for a shopping trip.
Yeah, but in all honesty it wasn't too bad.
No, we quite like Kingston, especially rhe big glass tunnel like bridge across the road, a great place to spot the odd Ferarri or Bentley.
I got myself a new school bag, fit for purpose at the junior school.
In the evening, Andy, Alan and Hayley came round.
We played Hayleys new game from the geeky game show we went earlier in the year, Agrocola.
It was pretty complicated by the looks of it, I helped dish out some cards and playing pieces and then decided i'd be better off going to bed.
It did look pretty difficult to get to grips with, so I got paired up with Dad, how's my luck eh?
Anyway, turns out he wasn't too bad at it, well, at least he was not as bad as everyone else appeared to be on our first ever go. We won! But it was a very long and drawn out affair, I didn't get to bed until 1:30am.
Monday
Meaning I had a 10 o'clock lie in.
I got up a bit earlier, Mum came down too, we had a lovely cuddle on the sofa until the boys appeared.
The day itself was wet outside.
Very wet indeed. We stayed in all day.
We did some reading.
We played some Wii party.
And we stuffed our faces on our first roast dinner for what must be months.
We rounded out the day watching the magician Dynamo, one of my most favourite shows.
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