Day 42 – Thumbs up – It’s Thursday

I got a brochure when we were at the Tenpin one of the times we went about some free kids activities in Kingston every Thursday during the school holiday. So we decided to check it out. Unfortunately it was raining so we decided not to go on the ferry ride in the rain. Instead we went to Bental Centre first. According to the brochure, they were having a build your own solar and rubber band cars. Unfortunately when we got there, we learned that they decided to change to schedule and had done that last week. But the girls did get to make spinning tops to take home.

Our next stop was TenPin for some Harry Potter magic. However that too proved to be a bit of a disappointment as it was a magician and all of the kids watching it were 3 years old. The magician didn’t even teach any tricks like it said in the brochure. We were getting pretty bummed trying to find the next activity but at least the rain had stopped. I was two strikes and almost to my third.

But the rain stopping was a good thing because we walked right by some Bungee jumping and both girls got to do that. So all was better! Ainsley just bounced because the straps around her legs were hurting her. Emily started doing back flips. So the day was not lost anymore. And we walked past a farmers market so we bought some fresh strawberries and cherries.

After the bungee, we headed to the last activity – making masks because we couldn’t find the face painting. As luck would have it, after they started decorating the masks, I found the face painting. It was supposed to be over at 4 pm so I got in the queue at 3:35. About 5 minutes into waiting, the woman doing the face painting gave a sign to the little girl in front of me that said no one beyond her would get to do face painting. I just shook my head. I couldn’t believe it. In the US, if you are already in line, before something closes, you get whatever you are in line for. Apparently, that is not the case with face painting. We tried another face painting but found the same thing – the queue was closed even though it didn’t end for another 20 minutes.

So that was the third strike and we decided to call it quits for the day. We walked over to the big Sainsbury for some cereal for tomorrow. Then we headed to the Tudor drive library to return some books that were due today. Finally, we headed home. I made some dinner, had some baths and then to bed.