Amazingly the journey both ways went very quickly and uneventfully and it was in no time at all that we were back at home. LAB decided to have a rest with Little "a" and we took Little "c" with us to the town centre for a quick shopping trip to buy some rolls for lunch.
I have never watched so much kid's TV (well not since I was a kid myself). CBeebies and Disney Jr with the result being two entranced nieces.
That evening's dinner we spent at The Cowper Arms in Cole Green along with MO. Little "c" went outside immediately to play... where she gets the energy from is mindboggling!
Day 2... and after a better than I expected sleep on a mattress in the living room we all got up to get ready for a trip to London's Regents Park where the Lollibop Festival was taking place. To make things easy I dropped off N and our guests in the town centre, then quickly drove home and walked back into town.
We caught the train to Kings Cross and then the fun and games really started... as we had to use the tube. Fortunately there were some lifts we could use but in places there was no alternative but to pick up the pushchair containing Little "a" and carve our way through the crowds of people that thronged the station. After a stressful half hour we eventually arrived at Regents Park.
As you may imagine there was a helluva lot of kids with their parents at Lollibop. All kinds of activities were going on and we quickly picked up a ticket for Little "c" to join the trapeze workshop at 2pm. Little "c" is massively into drawing and colouring in so she did a bit of that to begin with. The queues for the trampolines and the facepainting were pretty long and as she had her trapeze class coming up we decided to eat first (the obligatory rip-off hotdog for £4.50).
Little "c" was first onto the trapeze and to be honest was a bit shy but she certainly seemed to enjoy it. Whilst all this was going on LAB was queuing for the facepainting. Little "c" joined her in the line and when it got to her turn she decided to have a "princess" face.
There were various comedic characters roaming around the park... including two blokes on springy stilts dressed up as kangaroos. What I thought was a bit dodgy was that one of them had a pair of enormous bollocks dangling between the legs of his costume!
Eventually we decided to leave and of course LAB decided she wanted to do a quick bit of shopping in the West End. So whilst N and I looked after the kids she dived into H&M along Regents Street. At long last we wearily battled the tube again back to Kings Cross and returned home... knackered!
To be continued...
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