More fun!

Chris took the day off work today, and we all went out for the day to Crealy Adventure park. If you have kids, and are ever in the area, it's well worth a visit. They have indoor and outdoor activities and rides, and animals galore. We went last year during our holiday, which was in term time (how naughty!), which meant there were almost no queues and we spent all day going on and off of rides with Ellie. Today, being the school holidays it was certainly busier.

The first thing we headed for was the Pirate Ship, which took us ages to get Ellie to go on last year, but she made a bee-line for it today. Here is a picture of her with her Daddy having a ride.

Then we headed to the carousel, with the aim of getting Tabitha on at least one ride during the day. I took her on, and we sat together in a car, with Ellie riding on one of the horses in front of us. Tabitha seemed to enjoy this, which was a relief.

Feeling a little ambitious, I then took Tabitha on the log flume. She was very excited, looking at all the water while we waited to get on, then got a bit anxious as we went round. She wasn't keen on the tilt as the log went up on the conveyor, but seemed to be coping, and then we went down the other side, water splashed on her, and my goodness, she lost it! Unfortunately, it's a 2 drop flume, so when we started going up again, she was aware of what was going to happen, and became very tense. I sheltered her face this time, and she didn't get so wet, and although she wasn't all that happy, she recovered very quickly.

Then we went for our lunch, and had a wander through the wooded area, here's a picture of my gorgeous family, just before we went to see the deer.

Then we went to another barn, and Ellie had about a million goes on this. She started by going on with either Daddy or me, but then got very brave and was just queueing up by herself in the end.

Then I had the idea of getting on the mini-rollercoaster with Tabitha. I thought the speed of it would be ok for her, and she loves feeling wind in her face, so I thought we'd give it a go. Bad idea. One of the main problems was that people were screaming (as they do on coasters), and I'd forgotten that. Tabitha can't bare sudden loud noises like that. She didn't enjoy it at all, but we survived, and although it took her a while to settle afterwards, she doesn't seem to have been traumatised by her experience. Ellie and Chris went back on later, and she stood and watched it going round and round while we waited for them, and was perfectly happy. Sorry to say Tabitha, we are a family of thrill seekers, you better get used to it babe!

Ellie had a go at milking a cow, which she enjoyed, but didn't like the grease they used on the udders, and she got a certificate to say she had done it which she is proud of.

We were there for almost 7 hours, and on the way home, I took this photo. Always a nice image, you know you've done a good job when they crash out in the car :-)