Kids today… just have no stamina you know….
yesterday Becca and I went to Chester with Jane and Ben. They had the huge excitement of going on a bus that “knelt down” for little legs and wheelchairs to get on easily and a brief trip into the Disney shop (where she got a new winter coat for £14 that should have been £30!!) before getting to the reason for the trip - Chester Cathedral. Nice place but I do have to own up to having “issues” with places of worship charging £10 for a family ticket to go in. Yes, you get a headset for a comentary which was very interesting (it held the kid’s attention too which impressed me) but I would have been more comfortable with being able to wander in free and paying if I wanted the headset hire. But that’s just me.
So we did the full tour, lots of ooh and aah at the beutiful workmanship etc, lots of respect for what the place it, lots of inteligent questions. Then we toured the gift shop, I spent £3 on Becca, Jane (who is hopeless with money…) spent about £33 on Ben. A quick trip to the butty bar (sorry, that would be the refectory then) and suddenly we had 2 droopy, miserable, sulk-faced kids. Hmph. So we got the bus back to the Park and Ride (and yes, I know it’s cheaper to park in Chester than to park there and get the bus but I wasn’t driving….) and home.
They loaned us some of the Narnia videos and she watched the lot - LW&W, Prince Caspian, Voyage of the Dawntreader. First one is pretty good, second one was naff, third on okay. Took all afternoon and she barely moved off the sofa. Then she had a total melt down at being asked to clean her teeth…. then she went to bed!
No stamina these kids….
