Tuesday
Another day with Auntie christine and Darcey.
A trip to the cinema to watch Peppa Pig.
Not our usual choice really, but we love going anywhere with Darcey.
It was rather good though.
Afterwards we saw the pancake races in the marketplace.
And then we walked back towards auntie Christines house via Burger King.
We carried on, re-fuelled for a play on stroud green park before eventually arriving back.
Under strict orders from Mum we did some baking.
We did, cup cakes with some 'surprise' fillings.
Gymnastics was still on, which was good, even if I was full of cng and cupcakes.
I left a bit of room for when we got home, it was pancake night after all.
Yeah, even i've come round to them this year, sugar and lemon, keeping it simple.
Dad kept a good production line going.
Wednesday
Now a couple of days with Mum.
First up a trip to Shaw House who were having a civil war day. I've been doing this at school so it was a pretty topical idea.
It was really good, there was a trail to follow as well as some helmets to try on.
We stayed for lunch as Mum was amazed at how cheap it all was.
Yeah, even if the maltesers did turn out to be out of date.
We also got to make our own little soldiers:
We stopped off at Sainsbury to stock up on jelly for my layers of the earth school project homework.
And then it was Tilly's birthday disco. I decided shorts and a nice shirt was a good look. I though I looked just like Dad actually.
We had a great time:
I really enjoyed it:
Especially the chocolate fountain. We tried all sorts, the most extreme being pickled onion monster munch dipped in chocolate. Miss Knowles and I actually rather liked them.
I didn't have to go to Team Kennet, so enjoyed some Ned free time at home.
Thursday
Day two with Mum and the one thing on our wish list for the week was the Shaun the Sheep film.
So, off to the cinema again.
It was brilliant.
Then it was home for some Xbox.
Some Ipad. Some telly.
And some packing and fever pitch levels of excitement for tomorrow....
Friday
We hung about the house a bit on Friday as Mum had another day off.
Yeah, I added the final touches to my school project, adding the last few layers to my layers of the earth model, in jelly form. What a genius idea. We made it especially thick though so it won't be very good to eat I don't think.
Other than that we didn't do much really.
We watched Kung Fu Panda.
I packed my bag with a few essential items for our weekend away (feather boa) at Butlins.
We waited patiently for Dad to get home from work and we set off.
A bit earlier this year so that was good.
We got there in the daylight as well, cool.
We were staying in the same hotel as last year, and it was just as cool. We had an elephant made out of towels on our bed this time.
We had tried to save a few quid and skimped on the premium for a room with a balcony and a partial sea view.
Yeah, the car park wasn't nearly so nice to look at.
Still, we weren't in the room long so it didn't really matter.
I helped mum and Dad unpack.
While I made a swift exit and headed for the computer games room.
Once we were all sorted we took our lovingly prepared (by Mum) picnic on the mezzanine over the hotel lobby. The chairs were lovely and big, and spinny!
But it was rather warm....so after we finished we headed out into the cool night air for a walk around to see what was about.
Fortunately we stumbled upon the arcade:
We managed to make a few quid disappear.
We carried on and found some scooters to sit on:
And I found this Postman Pat ride, I thought his nose looked like a 'Sausage', ahem.....
We made our way back to the hotel and watched the Bear Grylls survivor programme on telly.
We survived more of it than Dad who fell asleep before it finished.
We eventually went to bed, but having our own tellys in our rooms we weren't ready for sleeping.
It was quite late by the time we finally nodded off.....
Saturday
Hence we weren't up that early in the morning.
There was no rush though, nothing opened until 10 anyway.
We had breakfast in our room (mini cereal multipacks, what luxury).
Then headed for the pool. It was pretty busy so we didn't get on much in the way of the slides and what have you.
Although the pool itself was cool with all the waterfalls, small slides and wave machine.
Lunchtime refuelling was a room picnic with some nice fresh bread from the Spar then it was back out to the show bar.
For Mister Maker live! I was dead excited, I love Mister Maker even if we might be a little bit older than his usual fanbase.
There was singing, dancing, making...
.....and some grown ups on stage making silly animal noises.
We had a bit of a session on the fair next, the bumper cars were going this year and there were even a few new rides.
We hired pedal carts and bombed around the site on them, they even went down small flights of steps surprisingly well:
That gave us quite an appetite so the Beachcomber Inn was a welcome pitstop.
We got a cool booth for four to sit in and had a nice snuggle up waiting for the food to arrive:
It was a lovely meal, topped off with an epic pudding:
Yeah, grapes and apples, lush:
It was dark by now, the fair was open and the lights were flashing, it looked too good to ignore.
Even if it was seriously freezing cold.
We went on everything, several times over.
Although the bumper cars were a bit disappointing as a strict no bumping rule was being enforced for some reason.
Sunday
Another lovely lay in.
And hotel room breakfast.
With a quick trip to the games room for me.
While I hung out with Mum and Dad for a bit.
They made us go put for a walk along the beach.
Yeah, obviously we didn't want to go at all.
Of course we loved it when we got there.
Even if it was windy and rather cold.
The warmth beckoned and we wrung out our last few quid in the arcade in a mad last minute dash for prize tickets.
The 2p falls machine with a built in fruit machine type ticket winning add on was the clear winner for me.
I was less easily pleased and ended up spending my allowance and some supplimentary pocket money....those crane machines for cuddly toys are a right con, but I was surprisingly good at the basketball machine.
We eventually called time and settled on our winning tickets total before visiting the shop where you could cash them in.
After a reasonably quick decision process, aided by the lovely helpful people behind the counter I settled on a cute bear rubber, a keyring, a sticker and some sweets.
And I went for a polystyrene glider and a lot more sweets.
We'd worked up an appetite and went to the pizza place for buffet.
We got another cool booth style table to sit at, which just so happened to have a great view of the buffet tables. Very handy for spotting when a freshly cooked pepperoni pizza had been put out.
I think both Ned and I ate more than Mum.
So we considered that we'd done very well out of the deal having to only pay kids rates compared to her full price adults tarrif.
We had a quick meeting to decide on what we wanted to do for the rest of the day.
We settled on swimming and dodgems.
So, with it raining pretty hard and still blowing we made our way accross the largely deserted fairground to the dodgems.
There wasn't a queue and we waited for the current session to end during which the young lad running the ride tried to catch me out with the old 'whats that on your jacket' routine as well as an attempt at telling me my laces were undone.
He was great fun.
As we were at the front of the queue, I was desperate to get car number 7 which looked by far the fastest. The ride operator agreed with me and I made sure I got first dibs by telling a blatant fib, telling him I was a Tottenham fan. The deal was done and I got the car all to myself.
I bagsied Dad as my co-driver which left Mum to her own devices in a car of her own.
The ride operator man did a quick pre ride speech where he said there was to be no bumping...and then laughed to himself before he flicked the on switch and quickly got himself into a spare car.
Then the carnage began.
It was total chaos, endless bumping, driving round the wrong the lot. Every rule broken and everyone driving or riding in the cars loving every second of it.
The man running the ride was obviously a big target but he was lapping it up.
Mum was a complete nightmare, hunting us down and bumping us endlessly.
Yep, she was seemingly everywhere.
At the end of the ride we got asked if we wanted to stay on for another session, of course we did!
And another.
And another.
It was brilliant. We only got off in the end when the entire fair got closed down because of the weather being so grim.
I think it was for the best, we'd laughed ourselves silly and the olds were worried about their backs and whiplash injuries.
So that left us with the final item on our agenda, swimming.
Yep, back to the pool for another dip.
And then back to the room to pack and have a bath before we left so we'd be sparkly and clean for school tomorrow.
Monday
Back to school then.
Yeah, it wasn't so bad though.
Nah, i'm riding my scooter in now, so its coo playing about on that before we go in to class.
We did a 'Strictly' themed routine at dance this week which was a lot of fun.
And I managed to return home from cross country remarkably mud free this week....
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