Day 43 – Lollibop

On the way to work yesterday, Scott heard an advertisement for a festival for kids in London in Regents Park so today, we took the train to London to check it out. It was packed with kids and parents (surprisingly a LOT of dads)! We arrived about an hour after it opened so thankfully the lines weren’t too long. Our first stop was the trapeze where the girls learned some moves on a very low to the gound trapeze. After that, we went over to a BIG airslide. To get to the top of the slide, the girls had to climb up 8 “stories” of crisscross netting – a story being about 4 feet. They eventually made to it to the top and came down the slide. And the line had doubled in size from when they got on so we went to something else.

The something else was face painting since we had missed out yesterday. Both girls got butterflies on their faces. After the face painting, we decided to grab something to eat. They weren’t too enamored by the choices and then we found a baked potato stand that worked. After we were finished eating, we watch a little of the ZingZilla concert. It was packed with three year olds and their parents so we couldn’t really see. We were most interested in the theme song which they played right away. Since we have very limited TV, the ZingZillas are one of the few shows that aren’t too babyish to watch. And as I said, their theme song is quite catchy.

After watching ZingZillas, we headed over to an open moonbounce. I had never seen one like this. It was a huge inflated circle that was not enclosed. What was worrisome to me was there was no side and no mats so if you fell off, you fell 3 feet to the ground. I kept telling them to “Stay in the Center.” A mom sitting next to me said she was worried about the same thing and was surprised that they had set it up this way. I wonder if that is why the first aid was set up right next to it? Then we went on the trapeze again and while I waited in line, the girls went over to the science tent and played with slime and smoke bubbles. They loved it. Then we went to play with the swing balls and then headed home for dinner and bed.