This morning we head out reasonably early with one of Elliot’s friends form schol, Euan and family.  We spent a few hours in the centre and had lunch etc there.  There was loads to do and the three boys just ran around from exhibit to exhibit, some of which were interactive so they were well entertained.  It was a little draining for the parents in that it was a full time job keeping an eye on them, but they had fun.

Then we went back to Euan’s house for coffee and playtime for the boys.

Sadly, on the way home a young driver ran up the back of Bruce so we need to head into see Grant (bodyshop in Ossett) to determine if any damage has actually been done.  At this early stage, it looks like she has been awfully luck and not really caused much damage (i.e. *should* polish out) to Bruce, but her little Citroen did not do quite so well as her car went underneath the back of Bruce and said hello to the towbar area etc 🙁  Oh yes, and the rear wheel hub has had binding brakes again today so Landrover are coming out tomorrow to check it out again 🙁

A few photo’s from the Space Centre however below… 🙂

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Today we went to Nostell Priory to go on an Easter Egg hunt and ended up joining the National Trust. Funnily enough we had been discussing it on the walk from the car park to the priory, so when it came up as an option to join instead of buying access to the Priory for the day, we decided to go for it. £97 for a family membership for the year and we got free access to the Easter Egg hunt – a mere £3 discount on the day 🙂

We decided that it would help force us to get out and do more family things at the weekends and get some mini breaks in as well. It also made us feel old as joining the National Trust is something that old people do right?

Anyway, we had a spot of lunch there and then went on to do the hunt – it was fun for the kids but a little muddy – glad we took the willies for the boys but would have been smarter to have taken them for mummy and daddy too….

A quick visit to the shop for the usual sort of crap that kids like at these sort of places and then home again for tea that Tim and Heather made for us.

Elliot did incredibly well as he did not complain once while we were out about having to walk etc – surprising considering he really did not want to leave the house (surprise) at all today. Oliver on the other hand who couldn’t wait to get there, whinged rather a lot and ended up sitting on daddy’s shoulders for most of the hunt.

So, we are already planning our next National Trust trip before the Easter holiday is over – probably up to Fountains Abbey or somewhere in the Yorkshire Dales