April 25-26

OK so as quick as possible- just have to say thank you to Vens for the present again-WE TRIED OUT the FONDUE set- at last, eevry weekend it's been bad weather till now (or sunshine in England)- must admit that in the end I made it a whole lot too adult-tasting for the kids, I think a bit too much Gruyere and wine- but for us excellent! UNFORTUNATELY Mako said I was 0 at pre-calculating events (humph, well so were you man)
I didn't think of buying gel for the burner so with two hungry wailing kids we decided to use candles instead- not too strong, but the hot water was quite enough to serve us for the 20 minutes in which we gobbled everything down in.
AND had a chocolate one with bananas and strawberries afterwards- as Leo is so nicely demonstrating. I did the unfortunate thing of drinking two small glasses of champagne though- bad mistake, always have a splitting headache the next day from that. Sunday- Train museum, took us almost 2 hours to get there (you always end up doing what your kids want to do, I could think of a few more amusing things to go to- still) it was much more of a success than I thought, play-as-much-as-you want the whole day, and rode (for the first time) on a real steam engine, (Nea was rather frightened) apparently one that had been used on the film Changeling with Jolie woman, I think I saw it but can't remember. Then I had the unbelievable luck to meet the Mayor of the place (everyone seems to take an interest in where I7m from, can't think why since LA is made out of foreigners ) and he took Leo for a ONCE in a lifetime TURN THE TURN TABLE! It was fantastic, they usually only let you look at it but he took the chains off and actually pushed it around with the said Mayor for (at first I thought he was a weirdo when he said I'm the Mayor of Paradise, actually he'd said Perris which was the place we were in) a whole turn, wow did he have the time of his life. Needless to say Nea found all this rather boring and was squealing to get out of the place, not to mention in the Valleys it's around 15 degrees hotter than it is here- stifling. Lots to do still today so better get out of this blog- Leo did excellently at school and a good 5 days without accidents so I'd better give him a nice afternoon, Lots of love all around XOXOXO
(Oh and I have to add that I got hit on by a Finnish-Irish guy in Ross Dress for Less on Saturday at 9am, always very comforting to have said at that time of morning that one is beautiful and may I take you out to dinner- I retorted that wow I must be meeting all the Fins over here these days, thanks, you've made my day but unless you're willing to buy me a house with a jacuzzi and pay collage bills and hospital bills for two kids I'm afraid you're not worth bothering about- thank the lord he left me alone after that) always nice to feel that others can actually sometimes take you as a woman still out and about and not just a left over mop from last night's vomit- I told Mako very sneekishly who looked very unperturbed and just commented " Oh well I guess there are all sorts of manics out there"- after which I hit him in the shin of course XOXOX