Well Gymnastics was a bit of an anti climax this week. We were supposed to be doing the second part of our badge award. We all got told that we weren't good enough for the grade we were going for so there was no point doing it. It's the first time I think I think i've ever not passed a badge.....
Wednesday
We saw something truly epic on a tv show called 'All over the place' on CBBC before school. It's a museum in France that has a massive mechanical elephant.
It walks along and squirts water out of his trunk.
And best of all, you can ride along in him! We've started lobbying hard to go there and check it out.
Thursday
Rehearsals are continuing for the school play, I think it's going okay still. We did some more read throughs at home after school before I tagged along with Dad for an evening bike ride at Tidworth Freeride. It's pretty much my favourite bike riding place at the moment even if i'm still not keen on the massive and frankly unrideable root sections. The bottom half of one of the tracks is a real treat though, drops berms and jumps aplenty.
While they were gone Mum and I had a trip to the park:
And did a few creative bits and bobs ahead of fathers day on Sunday.
He seemed to find me really funny!
In the end there were loads of kids over there, some I knew from school so we had a good old kickabout in the end, I needn't have worried!
Saturday
I had a lunchtime party for Charlotte's birthday, which put paid to any day-long activities.
So we had a lazy morning and I accompanied dad on a trip to Waitrose for a few bits.
The party was brilliant, we had pizza, ice creams and traditional games (I won some shopkins in a game of pass the parcel).
In the afternoon we rode to the city playground for some athletics practice.
I wanted some extra practice throwing the vortex.
So I gave her a few pointers...
....and I made good progress! We also did some running.
And I nearly died of hayfever.....do not like!
We also finally made a return to roller skating, we haven't been for ages so I got to use my new bag for the first time.
It was great fun, there didn't seem to be many there this week. Teagan and Lola were there though and we had a great time larking about.
Sunday
Fathers day, I was very excited to present my home made card and selection of artworks i'd produced for the occasion.
And I was quite keen to give him his presents so we could make a start on the wine gums, although I did find a really good card this year, based on toilet humour!
After a bit of discussion we decided on a trip to Legoland rather than a bike ride.
Well, it's not like we were supposed to do things Dad liked was it?
He loves Legoland, and anyway, we wanted to wear our Heely's and glide about the place.
Add to that the new Lego Friends bit now being open and we were well keen.
The new friends bit only really comprised a bit of re-theming and one new ride, Stephanies Riding school:
We went on a few forgotten classics:
And then while we were waiting to get on the dragon rollercoaster, it broke down.
Which was a shame.
But by way of compensation we got given a queue jump ticket for any ride in the park.
Universal consensus was the boating school, famed for it's lengthy wait.
It was brilliant swanning up to the front of the queue in the Qbot entrance and then just hopping on while everyone else looked on, admiringly.
The boats themselves were carnage from Dad and I's boat, I took steering duties and decided to pull a series of doughnuts in the more open section out out the back, away from the glare of the ride operators. We managed to make a good few other vessels swerve and take evasive action and then got caught in point blank range of the water squirting elephant.
Mum and I were waiting for them so long we thought they had sunk!
Monday
In a hasty arrangement I got Robert round for tea.
So it was a good job I had after school dance to stay out of their way for a bit.
After we'd eaten we headed down the park, Dad had bought a 50 metre tape measure so he could actually measure my vortex throws as a trainign aid for the upcoming team Kennet club championships and my 40 metre pizza hut target. I maxed out at about 37 metres, so I was still a little way short....
I had a standing long jump session under Mum's guidance and went from an average of 1 metre or so, to just over 1.50 metres consistently.
We didn't het home until after nine, the evenings are so long at this time of year, it wasn't dark, even under the trees.
Friday
Bit of trouble at school today, involving another girl I seem to have an occasional 'difference of opinion' with. The details are pretty murky and I don't want to talk about it much, but I had to visit Mrs. Watkins a number of times and have recieved a red card. Oh dear.
Friday
Bit of trouble at school today, involving another girl I seem to have an occasional 'difference of opinion' with. The details are pretty murky and I don't want to talk about it much, but I had to visit Mrs. Watkins a number of times and have recieved a red card. Oh dear.
In the evening we had a trip to the Craven Arms, I wasn't looking forward to it that much as I knew the grown ups would just sit about being boring while I wanted to play football.
But we did have a very special guest, Nate:
But we did have a very special guest, Nate:
In the end there were loads of kids over there, some I knew from school so we had a good old kickabout in the end, I needn't have worried!
Saturday
I had a lunchtime party for Charlotte's birthday, which put paid to any day-long activities.
So we had a lazy morning and I accompanied dad on a trip to Waitrose for a few bits.
The party was brilliant, we had pizza, ice creams and traditional games (I won some shopkins in a game of pass the parcel).
In the afternoon we rode to the city playground for some athletics practice.
I wanted some extra practice throwing the vortex.
So I gave her a few pointers...
....and I made good progress! We also did some running.
And I nearly died of hayfever.....do not like!
We also finally made a return to roller skating, we haven't been for ages so I got to use my new bag for the first time.
It was great fun, there didn't seem to be many there this week. Teagan and Lola were there though and we had a great time larking about.
Sunday
Fathers day, I was very excited to present my home made card and selection of artworks i'd produced for the occasion.
And I was quite keen to give him his presents so we could make a start on the wine gums, although I did find a really good card this year, based on toilet humour!
After a bit of discussion we decided on a trip to Legoland rather than a bike ride.
Well, it's not like we were supposed to do things Dad liked was it?
He loves Legoland, and anyway, we wanted to wear our Heely's and glide about the place.
Add to that the new Lego Friends bit now being open and we were well keen.
The new friends bit only really comprised a bit of re-theming and one new ride, Stephanies Riding school:
It was a pretty weird ride, you sat on a horse and then the restraint came up behind you with a reasonable amount of pressure, I was used to it as there's one similar at Paultons.
I hated it, I think it hit me when I had breathed out so was quite a squash when I tried to breath in again. I wanted off, which took a while....
Dad and I stayed put, it was brilliant. Even better was that there was hardly anyone around so we had another go.....and another go!
Dad talked me into having another try, and guess what? It was a brilliant and I loved it!
There was also a new F\riends themed show, it was quite clear pretty much straight away that they were not going to be diving into the water at any point.
It was a singing and dancing sort of thing, it wasn't up to much really.
Which was a shame.
But by way of compensation we got given a queue jump ticket for any ride in the park.
Universal consensus was the boating school, famed for it's lengthy wait.
It was brilliant swanning up to the front of the queue in the Qbot entrance and then just hopping on while everyone else looked on, admiringly.
The boats themselves were carnage from Dad and I's boat, I took steering duties and decided to pull a series of doughnuts in the more open section out out the back, away from the glare of the ride operators. We managed to make a good few other vessels swerve and take evasive action and then got caught in point blank range of the water squirting elephant.
Mum and I were waiting for them so long we thought they had sunk!
Monday
In a hasty arrangement I got Robert round for tea.
So it was a good job I had after school dance to stay out of their way for a bit.
After we'd eaten we headed down the park, Dad had bought a 50 metre tape measure so he could actually measure my vortex throws as a trainign aid for the upcoming team Kennet club championships and my 40 metre pizza hut target. I maxed out at about 37 metres, so I was still a little way short....
I had a standing long jump session under Mum's guidance and went from an average of 1 metre or so, to just over 1.50 metres consistently.
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