Busy Boy

B spent yesterday on a school trip to Underwater Street (at the Pier Head Liverpool) - and had the most fantastic time! The variety of activities was just excellent - he was one busy boy!

Wet wet wet

Not that it was wet at the start of the St Georges Day Parade when I took these photos mind - but by half way round the heavens opened. At first it wasn't too bad - but by the bottom of Farnworth Street it was like a monsoon! As we marched past Auntie Jude's house in the torrential rain I would have loved to take some pictures to remember just HOW wet it was - but there was no way I was using A's camera in those conditions LOL!

Fortunatly we have the most wonderful, organised Akela in Kay - so our scout group was all kitted out in matching green waterproofs - but most of the children were drenched - and I imagine there were lots of unhappy parent to deal with later on...

Ben on his first (and hopefully wettest) St Georges Day Parade - his refrain all afternoon was "my legs are very tired - it's a long way!"

Megan and Charlotte looking very grown up this year.

Flights of Fancy

Time for some catch-up entries, the last few days have been somewhat busy!
Saturday evening there was a family fun night at FMC. Seeing as it was to raise moneyfor the NorthWest Air Ambulance we gave it a flight theme - with fairy cakes to decorate, a flight quiz and the highlight - a paper areoplane competition.
Neither M or B won (though they both did better than Gpa whose areolane manged to go a negative distance TWICE!) - but we had loads of fun

Black Eye

The result of being hit by the school gate when picking M and B up yesterday afternoon. At fisrt it really hurt and there was a huge lump. By this morning it wasn't hurting much but this impressive bruising had developed - it actually looks far worse in real life :( And I think it is going to get worse before it gets better.

The Witch's Bogey

We went to the Brindley this afternoon with Auntie J to see The Witch's Bogey. There was a workshop first to introduce the themes and characters - and then it was the show.
Lots songs, dancing, audience participation - and of course bogeys!

Blue Planet Aquarium

On Saturday the weather was looking decidedly ropey - so instead of the planned trip to Chester Zoo we went to the Blue Planet Aquarium in Ellesmere Port. It's not cheap - but it is a great day out!

B was very excited...

...but he slowed right down to spend ages watching the fish

The underwater tunnel through the largest tank is just amazing...

...as is the big window - watch out for the sharks!

The touch pool where you can stroke the rays is a firm favourite

Finnegan

On the way home from London we stopped at the Ada Cole Rescue Centre which is run by the Redwings Charity. We were there to see Finnegan - the horse that M 'adopted' last year thanks to a Christmas present from Auntie G.
For a while it looked like Finnegan was too busy eating to come and see us - but eventually he wandered over....

... and started to eat again!

M was very very happy to see Finnegan at last - and we have adopted him again.

B wanted to adopt a horse too - so now he has adopted Boo.