Tuesday 6th
Wednesday 7th
Thursday 8th
Friday 9th
It was a cold and pretty bleak football session after school. I did not enjoy having the ball kicked at me one little bit......
But it was the last day of this particular half term, so after a shower and a bit of faffing about we were off for a trip away.
Maybe a bit of an unlikely destination for us lot, we were heading North to Manchester!
The drive wasn't too bad, we had an in car buffet so we didn't need to stop and we were soon checking in to our hotel. After a brief 'discussion' about bed sharing arrangements we were all happy and settled down to watch the Last Leg.
Saturday 10th
The Winter Olympics were on when we woke up, so we took in a little bit of that before making our way down to take in a big bit of breakfast.
We then attempted to walk it off with a day of shopping in the Trafford Centre. The place was massive, and really quite fancy and impressive. I think it would make a great place to actually live if we took all the shops out......
Well, we say shopping....we passed a few shops before we got to the Adventure Golf anyway. First round of two, and it was great fun:
Dad narrowly won the first round, which was a shame.
Then it was on to the shops, we tried on some hats:
Some looked better than others:
Ned finally replaced his jacket, which we think he has had since Autumn 2014. So he's got his money's worth out of that one.
I also got myself some new ripped jeans which were a proper ladies size 4.
But the shopping had to give way to more important pursuits, the second round of golf on the other course that Ned won this time.
Next up was something to eat in the massive food hall before the real highlight of the day.....the dodgems:
I also got myself some new ripped jeans which were a proper ladies size 4.
But the shopping had to give way to more important pursuits, the second round of golf on the other course that Ned won this time.
Next up was something to eat in the massive food hall before the real highlight of the day.....the dodgems:
Although the track looked small the cars themselves were super fast and you could even skid them around the corners!
Then it was back to the hotel for a Saturday night TV session, bit of Olympics, bit of take me out.....ideal.
Sunday 11th
After another morning of Olympics as we woke up we had a bit of lay in before making our way down to breakfast:
Once we'd consumed out own body weight in pork goods and Nutella (which I discovered for the first time) and Mum and Dad destroyed the cereal dispensers, we packed up our things, checked out and headed even further north......to Bury.
Our target, Arcade Club, a place full of retro arcade games on free play. It was a bit of mission to find it but we were soon in and climbing the any stairs up inside a converted old mill building, to be dazzled by the bright lights:
There were hundreds of machines, and although the graphics might not be up to todays standards, but they were a lot of fun to play, especially the ones where you could have more than one player:
Then it was back to the hotel for a Saturday night TV session, bit of Olympics, bit of take me out.....ideal.
Sunday 11th
After another morning of Olympics as we woke up we had a bit of lay in before making our way down to breakfast:
Once we'd consumed out own body weight in pork goods and Nutella (which I discovered for the first time) and Mum and Dad destroyed the cereal dispensers, we packed up our things, checked out and headed even further north......to Bury.
Our target, Arcade Club, a place full of retro arcade games on free play. It was a bit of mission to find it but we were soon in and climbing the any stairs up inside a converted old mill building, to be dazzled by the bright lights:
There were hundreds of machines, and although the graphics might not be up to todays standards, but they were a lot of fun to play, especially the ones where you could have more than one player:
As well as the normal machines, there were also loads of driving games and who doesn't love a bit of a dance?
There were also ones shoved into tables, how cool is that?
As the machines were all on free play it took a very long time for us to actually leave, the lure of one more go was very hard to resist....
We got home at a reasonable time, narrowly missing the snow that fell in the late afternoon.
We'd had a great weekend though, and it made a really nice change to be together for once and not argue (too much).
Monday 12th
One night in my own bed then it was off again for a sleepover with Darcey. We had face packs and beauty treatments and Onesie wearing!
Tuesday 13th
Next day was Bowling and McDonalds, thanks Laura!
It was also pancake day, so I was looking forward to this one. Dad had been warned by myself and Ned that we wanted PLENTY!!
He tripled the approved batter quantity and stood there flipping away for over an hour, there were well over 20 in this little pile:
And I made sure I ate my fair share:
We got home at a reasonable time, narrowly missing the snow that fell in the late afternoon.
We'd had a great weekend though, and it made a really nice change to be together for once and not argue (too much).
Monday 12th
One night in my own bed then it was off again for a sleepover with Darcey. We had face packs and beauty treatments and Onesie wearing!
Tuesday 13th
Next day was Bowling and McDonalds, thanks Laura!
It was also pancake day, so I was looking forward to this one. Dad had been warned by myself and Ned that we wanted PLENTY!!
He tripled the approved batter quantity and stood there flipping away for over an hour, there were well over 20 in this little pile:
And I made sure I ate my fair share:
I managed to pack away at least 8, mostly keeping them simple with lemon and sugar.
Mum only managed a pitiful 3.
Wednesday 14th
Unheard of scenes today when I involuntarily decided to do a bit of room tidying to punctuate my laptop youtube binge.
Thursday 15th
Link centre Trampoline park today once Dad was finished work. We hadn't been with all four of us before so that was a good:
I nailed backflips from the foam pit diving board and then from the bouncy runway thing too.
Dad tried to kill mum by bouncing across four trampolines and missing a padded plinth before crashing headfirst into her stomach and as usual Ned got told off for bouncing up onto the high wall you're not allowed to go onto.
Friday 16th
We finally arranged a meal with Anne and Mike and also roped in Nate, Joel, Hayley and Alan too. It was a lovely get together and I loved my belated Christmas present from Anne (a lovely warm gilet) which I wore home as Mum and Dad had insisted we walked.
Saturday 17th
Big old you tube day, not much more to add.
Sunday 18th
Ned was ill today, not like him at all. Our planned activities were scuppered then, we watched a
Streetcat named Bob on DVD which we all loved (despite me claiming any scenes not featuring Bob himself were boring)
Friday 16th
We finally arranged a meal with Anne and Mike and also roped in Nate, Joel, Hayley and Alan too. It was a lovely get together and I loved my belated Christmas present from Anne (a lovely warm gilet) which I wore home as Mum and Dad had insisted we walked.
Saturday 17th
Big old you tube day, not much more to add.
Sunday 18th
Ned was ill today, not like him at all. Our planned activities were scuppered then, we watched a
Streetcat named Bob on DVD which we all loved (despite me claiming any scenes not featuring Bob himself were boring)
I took out skateboarding in the afternoon. We hadn't been down Victoria Park in ages. We skated about and played on the park like it was summer.....but a fair bit colder.
Monday 19th
Back to school after half term, nothing to report, it was just like we had never been away really!
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