Ufton court then, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The details are all a bit jumbled in tems of chronology but heres goes anyway.....
First off, I got a disapproving nod for turning up with wheelie bag....we were told not to bring them. Still not sure why, I found dragging it around a lot easier than others seemed to humping and dumping massive holdalls around.
I was in Bouvoir room with Maddie, Betsy, Ellie and Lola. Making our own beds was a lot of fun and not as hard as I first feared. We stayed up chatting rather late on the first night of course.....
The highlight of the trip was the banquet I suppose, we got dressed up:
I got a lovely purple dress to wear, I looked the part but it was pretty itchy:
No one seemed to want to eat the chicken legs on the banquet table, suited me fine as I got stuck in, I finished off two easily before starting on the cabbage that no one else seemed to be interested in either. It wasn't as good as sprouts though....
After the food it was time for dancing, Daniel was the lucky chap that got to dance with me.
In terms of the activities, I think my favourite was the wattling (willow stick weaving), closely followed by the archery. My fagranced posy bag was also a real triumph and smelt genuinely pleasant, like a fresh pine forest.
We got picked up on Wednesday, just after lunch. Fun as it had been I was very pleased to see Mum and Dad arrive to collect me, I had a bit of a headache and was starting to miss home just a little bit. Mum sat in the back with me on the way home at my request....
Thursday
Ned's Rugby was cancelled thank god, it meant we could stay in, in the warm and binge watch all the episodes of I'm a celebrity I had missed while I was away.
Mum went out for a curry with the quiz team to spend some of their winnings so it was left for me to help Dad put the food order away. He does need help with it......
Friday
Back to our full on regime after a day laying low to get over Ufton, after school football, on to gymnastics (complete with seriously bad traffic due to the races being on) and then pick up Sasha for a sleepover! Seriously exciting, we did each others hair, we played, we did some fashion design drawings and we worked on our play we are still hoping to put on some time in the future (script and costumes mostly). We retired to my room to watch Kung Fu Panda 3 and finally fell quiet, i'm informed at 12:20.......
Saturday
Unsurprisingly Sasha and I had a bit of a lie in. We took a late breakfast and spent the entire morning doing make up and nail painting:
We dropped Sasha off at home and the headed into town for a late lunch at the Spons (cheese and ham panin) and a bit of shopping.
We spent the rest of the afternoon and early evening waiting for Alan and Nate to not turn up.
Sunday
So this one had been on the backburner for a while, a day trip to London. By the time we'd got out of bed and got ourselves together and made our way East we decided to kick things off with a picnic in Regents Park:
So yeah, picnic not just for the summer. It was a little bit cold but pretty nice all the same.
We were over this side of town to visit Madame Tussauds, a strange idea of a place if you ask me, a load of dummies of famous people? First up Bieber:
Their were a whole load of film stars I hadn't heard of or didn't recognise as well.
I knew who this chap was though:
Ned seemed to abandon his strong republican views pretty quickly for this one:
And 1D gained a couple of extra members:
And we got to hang out with this guy:
The visit was completed by a Marvel Superhero film in the 4D cinema, which everyone else seemed to love but I wasn't so sure....
The initial plan was to go on the London Eye though, so we made our way across London, taking in the sights and the sounds as we went, before ending up on the Southbank. There was a Christmas market on, but more importantly there was the highest chair-o-planes we had ever seen (just visible in the background):
I was desperate to have a go, so we went to investigate. Dad was secretly hoping it would be prohibitively expensive I think so he wouldn't have to go on it without losing face. Mum and I were dead keen though and with Ned wavering 50/50 (probably because he's so stingy) it was a done deal we were going on. I was so excited and couldn't wait to get 55 metres up for a swing round. We made our ascent high above the market, we could see out right over the London roof tops as we whizzed round and round. I sat with Mum and she loved it as much as me, not sure about the boys though? It was cold up there though, and pretty windy. We were buzzing when we got back down to earth.
So next up the London Eye, we'd timed it to perfection as the sun had just gone down and the skyline was lit up. There was also no queue to speak of and we pretty much walked straight on.
The view of the ride we had just been on was pretty cool:
As was the houses of parliament:
It was pretty slow compared to the chair-o-planes, but we did get to take in the view and spot the famous landmarks.
Once we were off Mum decided that she wanted to see some Christmas lights so we haphazardly made our way to Regents Street, via McDonalds and a quick size testing mission for the bikes:
Quite honestly I was flagging quite badly and could have done without it. Having said that it was probably worth the effort. There was a huge projector onto the side of building with a video of Santa climbing up the side and hanging on to the window ledges and some amazing angels hanging over the street:
So Mum was happy with that and we could finally go home....
Monday
Back to school, and Mum got asked to accompany us on yet another school trip as a parent helper.......it's starting to grate a little bit, she's cramping my style!
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