The lounge is almost complete 🙂

The real tree that we went out to find and cut down ourselves is stood in the conservatory waiting to be decorated tomorrow when daddy is on his way to the US.

Tonight we have sat down and figured out a cool plan for the kids for their first week of Christmas holidays.

We were already heading to Durham on Tuesday 17th (in the evening) to the Polar Express railway trip, but now we will head home right after that event. Daddy will head to work on the train as already planned and mummy will get in the car with the boys late morning and drive down to London. We will all stay in the hotel near daddy’s work where daddy will come out of work at 5pm and we will all walk over to the tube station and get a tube to Oxford Circus in order to make a visit to Hamleys. Then a cab over to Harrods and a tube out to Ealing Common. The final leg on Wednesday evening will be a London bus back to the hotel. at some point we will find somewhere to eat dinner etc

Daddy will go in to work on Thursday and mummy and the boys will enjoy a leisurely morning sleep in with a breakfast at the hotel. They will all then drive out to Windsor to LEGOLAND and will check in to the LEGOLAND hotel where loads of Christmassy stuff will be happening. Daddy will get the train out to Windsor on Thursday night for dinner etc returning to work on Friday morning via the same train line. The boys will get to ride on the LEGOLAND fun rides and then meet the jolly fat guy in the red suit 🙂

Daddy will return to Windsor on Friday afternoon and then we will all drive home to Yorkshire.

On Saturday we then have the Santa Special on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway 🙂

WHAT A WEEK !!!!! The kids will be psyched 🙂

Mummy and the boys have enjoyed a busy few days this week already. Yesterday heading out to York Maze to the Halowe’en event and then today they have been out in search of Santa it seems 🙂

A fantastic day had by all at Diggerland in Castleford today.  The photo above is the “tame” (as denoted by Alicia) Groundshuttle ride – I think all of us were thrown from our seats not long after the tame comment was made 🙂

The boys are now at the perfect age to be enjoying Diggerland as they are tall enough to ride on everything that is available – AND DRIVE most of it.  Lissy even managed to get behind the wheel of a 4×4 Mitsubishi SUV 🙂  None of the rest of us were allowed as we were either too old or not tall enough 🙁

The bobcats were daddy’s favourite followed closely by the GroundShuttle above and the dizzy spinner – the latter two for sheer wow factor.

Typically the boys were most attracted to the dodgems that of course were pay per view – thankfully our £10 of tokens seemed to go a LOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGG way 🙂

We finished the day up with lunch at TGI Fridays in Xscape and then a little bouncing around on the trampolines for the bigger boys and bouncy castle slide for all the boys 🙂

Thanks Granddad for a FANTASTIC day – we all really enjoyed ourselves 😀

Well we had planned on heading to the coast today for a few days but the accommodation didn’t work out so instead the boys suggested a movie theatre trip to see Disney Pixars latest animation – Planes.

We went to the very first showing in 3D at Wakefield’s Cineworld in a bid to Duce the volume of people we would be mixing with Olly. It worked pertly in that there were know more than 30 people in the theatre for the show.

It was a really impressive movie – totally up to the challenge it was set – I.e. had to better all animated pictures from Disney Pixar.

We then went for a swim at Grandma’s before heading home with fish and chips for tea :-).

Elliot has managed to squeeze in a couple of hours of Minecraft online with Tyler tonight and we are presently thinking of the plan for tomorrow – Elliot of course voted to stay home (assuming that he can play on the Xbox) and Olly is in bed so sadly is not presently able to vote.

Bikes at the park or Sundown Adventure Land or Yorkshire Wildlife Park (aka Doncaster zoo)…

Many options and I suspect that we will just figure it out in the morning once we find out how the littlest Rust wakes up…. Yes, after the movie theatre, he has been his usual devilish self today….