Private Thoughts Made Public

Well, did we have a gret day out yesterday or what? The weather was perfect, the kids were well-behaved, the rides were fun, and the ice cream was much appreciated. We took the kids to Gullivers Theme Park, which isn’t one of the country’s major attractions like Alton Towers or Chessington, so it was nowhere near as busy as I thought it might have been. On the way there we stopped to buy food for a picnic, and my ex was well prepared with bottles of cold water, wipes, sun tan lotion etc. Strangely for a theme park in the middle of summer it was only open from 10:30am till 5pm….. so I thought we’d better get there ASAP. The last thing I wanted to do was drag two screaming kids out of there at closing time with them shouting “but I wanted to do this ride” and “I wanted to go on that”
As it turned out, the kids went on all the rides they wanted to, sometimes up to five times (!). My ex and I got on well during the day, which is as good as can be expected really. We only had a minor disagreement at the end of the day when my son had a bit of a hissy fit about going home. She thought he was being bad tempered and naughty, I said no he isn’t, he’s just tired. (actually, I had promised him at the start of the day that if he was good I’d buy him a toy on the way home, and then on the way home I forgot. He didn’t forget though. Oops. He found a pound coin in my pocket and I told him he could buy himeself something with it tomorrow.) Anyway, although that cast a little cloud over the day, we managed to get over it without it turning into a huge argument. We were all tired by that point though!
Any yes, my wallet did take a bit of a hit, but my ex paid her share. She didn’t actually give me any money, she told me I could take her share of expenses out of the weekly child support money, but I suppose it still counts. My sister-in-law has also offered to pay my niece’s entrance money, so maybe I can afford to feed myself next week after all!
The photos from the day out can be seen here.