Tuesday
A day with Auntie Christine and Darcey.
We all know that means a trip to 4 Kingdoms
Not that we're complaining, we love it.
Us girls had face paints:
And it was also pirate day, which meant I got to sword fight a pirate:
It was gymnastics day as well, Dad came to pick us up.
But I managed to avoid it and stayed with Darcey and Auntie Christine until well after it had finished, what a result.
Gymnastics was good though, hardly anyone there again which meant we got plenty of coaching.
Wednesday
We had a rather quiet day with Auntie Christine today.
Which suited us just fine.
We went out for a little walk and a bit of blackberry picking, which is something i'm really in to at the moment:
I also did a bit of drawing and colouring.
And I enjoyed playing with the set of giant dominoes she'd just aquired form somewhere.
We also had to be guinea pigs for a different cake recipe she'd tried out.
Oh, what hardship! I thought it was very nice, even if the general consensus wasn't as favourable.
So Dad comes to collect us, and we get a trip to the dentist!He really knows how to entertain us kids in the holidays doesn't he?
It was okay though, the dentist said that I had very clean, nice teeth.
But I had to brush mine a little more carefully apparently.
We had half an hour to kill in town, so decided a soon-back-to-school haircut was a good idea!
We still love haircut time.
I nattered away to the lady doing mine the whole time I was sat there.
And the lady cutting mine stopped halfway through and turned to Dad to tell him how beautiful she thought I was!
It was a very quick pitstop for tea before heading off to Team Kennet.
No Abi this week, which was a shame.
It was the last of the badge week competitions too.
Sadly, I was in the team that came second AGAIN! So, still no badge for me.
Thursday
Mum had the day off today, so we could have a bit of a lie in and what have you.
Although I got a knock on the door, it was Ali, he was giving Mrs Watkins' dog a walk and wanted to know if I wanted to go with him. Seemed like a good idea. It was hilarious watching him trying to keep hold of the somewhat urgent dog at times.
We picked Dad up from work at lunchtime and made our way to Bournemouth to check out the air festival.
Well, you say Bournemouth, we actually ended up in Southbourne, quite a way from Bournemouth. The plan was to catch the land train into Bournemouth, which seemed like a good idea.
Except the land train wasn't running because of the air festival.
So we set about walking. It was a very, very long way.
We made it as far as Boscombe pier in time for the red arrows display.
We set out the blanket and cracked out the Digestives to take in the show:
It was utterly brilliant, completely captivating.
I played in the sand mostly, although the heart they drew in the sky was pretty good.
We carried on our epic stroll and as we got closer to Bournemouth there were more and more things going on.
Like a load of fairground rides that we weren't allowed a go on.
And then even better a load of (free) army stuff that we were!
There was a well cool boat with two massive engines in it:
There was a Royal Engineers section where you could have a go at metal detecting in the sand. I found all of mine:
But I missed one, so could have been blown up if it was a mine:
There was also a section for the Royal Artillery. They had loads of cool tanks that you could get in, the best one was an anti aircraft gun thingy, it had a turret that you put your head up into, it span round and had built in binoculars that you could see miles and miles through. No doubt very useful for seeing distant aircraft to shoot at.
There was a battle of Britain fly past as well.
A lancaster, a Hurricane and a Spitfire too. The Spitfire sounded really epic looping and diving during it's solo display.
So four and a half miles or so later we reached Bournemouth.
But it was getting pretty late so we thought we had to head back ro the car really.
We decided a bus would be a good idea, but the road we found with bus stops on it was closed.
Because of the air show!
So we had to walk further inland until we found a bus driver to ask, he pointed us in the right direction and we were soon on the bus, heading back in the vague direction of the car.
We got off at what the driver assured us was as close as we were going to get to our car and started walking.
It was another long old stroll it has to be said.
But eventually we made it back.
We'd done very well, walked a hell of a long way with very little whingeing at all.
Tired and hungry we headed for home....
Stopping off at a Harvester for something to refuel us.
Turned out to be a good call, it was very quick, pretty cheap (which pleased Mum) and pretty nice food too.
We had a right old laugh sat around the table, probably because we were so delirious from all our walking.
I think my face sums our mood up quite well here:
Friday
Today we were lucky enough to have a day out with Laura and Darcey.
We were so excited.
We went to the Butterfly place near Swindon, Studley Grange Farm.
We loved it, even though it did take ages for me to tempt a butterfly to land on me:
I had no such trouble, in fact I could hardly move for butterflies:
And we all loved the baby meerkats.
One of which ended up actually in the food bowl.
We loved the cafe, you could see the butterflies.
And we loved the ice creams, and Darcey of course:
Saturday
Well we were in no hurry to get up this morning.
The lure of a swimming trip to the Oasis got us moving though, we hadn't been to the pool for ages.
It wasn't even that busy there either, which was a result.
As we were late going, it made lunch quite a late affair.
But we're pretty adaptable.
We had an afternoon trip to Sainsburys for a slush puppie in the afternoon:
Then it was home again, I was pretty keen to watch the new series of the X Factor.
None of the rest of us were.....
Sunday
We were up bright and early on Sunday morning for a bike race Dad had found out about.
This was a cross country mountainbike race, so a new one for all of us.
The race was in Checkendon, sort of Between Reading and Oxford so it took a while to get there.
When we got there Mum signed us opin while Dad sorted our bikes out.
We got given our race numbers and had time for a little practice ride.
Our inexperience showed though and Dad sent us off around the adults three mile loop by mistake for a little warm up ride.
Which might have been okay if our races weren't due to start in 10 minutes!
A course marshall spotted is though after Mum spoke to the race controller, he guided us back to the start area just in time.
Yeah, so I lined up for my first ever bike race, puffed out and with no idea where the track I would be racing actually went or what it was like.
I was seriously impressed Ellis.
I managed the first lap of three, but quite honestly I found it all a bit much so decided i'd stop there.
I was up next, there were some serious looking competitors, club logo racing kits and clip in pedals:
We were doing four laps and although the course wasn't that difficult the first lap was ridden at a pretty high pace. I managed a mid pack fourth place which I was very pleased with.
We both really enjoyed ourselves and our keen to have another go next month, I might even try to finish the race next time:
Even better than the bike riding though was this massive hammock that was slung between a couple of trees:
It was brilliant fun, swinging back and forth and trying to climb to the top.
We had a picnic out in the field, surrounded by lovely trees and enjoying the sunshine.
We played Logo Billionaire when we got home, I got accused of witchcraft when I cut the cards three times in a row for Mum, and the first one was a 'Bust' card. I think she thought I was cheating somehow.
Anyway, while all that was going on I stormed in for the win!
Monday:
Our last day with Auntie Christine and Darcey of the summer holidays.
With the added bonus of Auntie Trish along too, awesome.
So then, Four Kingdoms? Bit rude not to really I think.
We had a great time of course, not withstanding melting my coat using it to gain extra speed on the bumpy slide...oops.
Dad looked up when my gymnastics class would be on now i'm going into year 3, he found a picture of me on the club website:
I was very pleased indeed about this as you can imagine!!!
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