An Apology and The Play Park

I apologise to those of you who have been checking regularly for updates. Things were a bit hectic when we got back from visiting our friends. I always find that after spending a week with a choice of people to play with every day, Ram needs more hands on time with me.

In a way this is good because it has broken the pattern we had of being on the computer all day. We are now regularly playing the new card games we learned while away, reading aloud during the day and not just in bed at either end of the day, and my little vampire has discovered the great outdoors again with the help of a swing!

So what I have decided to do to catch up is to do a series of entries that are not based on a single day, but on a theme.

So the theme for this one is the play park in York.

In my last entry, August 20th, I told of how much Ram was looking forward to returning to the play park that he had been to a couple of years before, and how angry he became when we found that it was very crowded.

We didn't say anything to the children at the time because we didn't want to get their hopes up, only to be dashed by the weather, but we had made a note of the opening time of the park, and decided that if Monday was good weather we would go first thing.

Amazingly, Monday was good weather so we packed some drinks, and went off straight after breakfast. We got there 10 minutes before the play park was due to be open, but it was already open! However, as the schools had started by then, there was only a couple of people with very young children. The items that our older kids wanted to play on were free!

At first Ram didn't want to go on the round about that he so wanted to go on last time, but couldn't because there were too many people on it. However, he did relax and after a few minutes all three of them were having a good time!

By 11 o'clock more people were arriving, mostly with younger children, but never the less, it was starting to get busy. That is when the children decided they had had enough. It may only have been an hour's worth of play, but for them it was the best thing, and it was great that Ram will have a very positive memory of the play park.

When we next go to see our friends it will be January. I think the mums will have to take hot drinks, soup, and portable heater and a tent to keep themselves warm while the kids play!