i could have done this in th last blog post, but that was about tents – something i am rather keen on! so this is about the adventure day. having taken bb to a similar park on our family holiday, we were aware that she is something of a delicate daisy about rides. it is a bit of a shock, as her general personality isn’t that delicate, and i always thought her fearless! so we bought chris and sb a band, and me and bb a run of tickets. good thing too!
chris and sb had a ball, they went on loads of things and had a great laugh. def got their money’s worth. i would have loved a go at the water ones… oh well, plenty of time in the future. sb loved the big roller coaster particularly and the wavy slide [i would have liked that too!]. bb loved the bouncy castle and teeny tinies vehicle ride, and for both of these, she didn’t get asked for a ticket as she is on the 90cm borderline. so she had 4 free rides. she also loved the playpark, so actually had a fab time. bUT she hated the ladybird ride and wailed for some considerable time over it!
when i have flickered i will add some pics. the only neg was later on that day when sb had a recurrence of her low mood blogged previously. i think she had been feeling a bit left out, and her foot was playing up by then, and a week of late nights got her to sob herself to sleep. luckilly i was on holiday with great friends who i can talk to about these things, and they had a chat to their kids, and the next day sb had a ball with her friends again. it is good to have such lovely friends that you can talk about these things with, even though i felt bad about it. i also gave sb a v long talk [again!] about give and take, and working out what you actually want. i am hoping that she will get this social thing earlier than i did [about 30!!]. i know i over empathise with it in some respects, cos i know how it has affected my whole life, and i am glad i can bounce this off the friends there, and know they aren’t judging me too much as a psycho neurotic parent!!
more wine, jax and family arrived [unfortunately pretty much at the point i frogmarched an overwrought sb off to bed!]