Our weekend of delights! – Mummascribbles

I know it’s Wednesday and the weekend already seems like a million years ago but I’ve been meaning to write this post for days because we had such a magical weekend that I couldn’t not document it! I am somewhat distracted this week because I’m reading a book. The last few weeks have seen me desperately trying to get through all the Twinkly Tuesday posts because my gorgeous co-hosts have had time away from it and I have been using my commute to do it! This week, I feel on top of it and it was about time I got a book out. So I am very quickly making my way through Girl on a Train and am completely hooked – hence it’s taken me days to write this post!! Anyway, I digress, back to the weekend.

We were fully booked. It’s unusual for us to have a whole weekend of plans. We usually have a day where we are at home but this weekend we had plans on each day.

On Saturday, I had booked tickets for a local event that was happening. It was a Teddy Bear’s Picnic/fun day at Capel Manor Gardens. We have driven past this place many times but have yet to go in and this was a great excuse for Zach to have some fun and for us to have a little look around. Whilst the actual event was slightly disappointing (it didn’t start off great when we wasted £2 for a 5 minute bouncy castle jump around that lasted less than ten seconds because the bouncy castle was scorching hot!), the gardens were fantastic. It’s actually an agricultural college and the students work on the gardens as part of their learning and development. There are some seriously beautiful sights.

Zach did have fun in the event, it was just everything was so expensive that I refused him a lot of stuff. Seriously, when did a hook the duck game cost £2.50 a go? He did enjoy watching the Disney princesses having a sing song although it would have been good if they didn’t repeatedly sing the Frozen theme tune!

I think that had it not been quite as hot, we would have enjoyed it just a little more but the main thing was that Zach had fun and we enjoyed the beauty of the grounds. We’ll definitely be going back there.

In the afternoon, we were due to go to a friends for a bbq – among this dodgy weather they couldn’t have picked a better day for it. We arrived there around half past three after an hour and a half drive (damn traffic, it should have taken about 40 minutes!), and in we went. It was a very last minute planned bbq and we soon found out the reason why when I handed her a bottle of wine and she told me she wouldn’t be able to drink it. Yep, they are expecting a baby. EEEEEEEEEEK! I was so excited that I literally screamed! So from there on in most talk was pregnancy, babies and her seeing exactly what was coming ahead of her watching my mad toddler! I know she regularly reads this blog so congrats once again lovely lady!

We had such a lovely afternoon, the food was absolutely delicious, the company fab and Zach was busy entertaining everyone. Once we left (at eight o clock), we diverted round to the other halfs parents to drop a crate of wine off that his mum had won at our recent day out and so Zach was happy that he got to see his nanny and grandad. We then didn’t get home until 9pm. Waaaay past Zach’s bedtime!

Sunday was another adventure filled day as we were meeting even more friends. We’d agreed to meet at Bethnal Green train station which meant Zach got to go on his beloved trains!

From there, we headed to Victoria Park in Hackney. I have only been there once and it was for a 5k fun run so I hadn’t actually explored the depth of it. I certainly hadn’t realised that they had a massive sand and play area!

Zach was in heaven and certainly didn’t care that it was raining (unlike me who was sat there under an umbrella chatting to the girls!). Once it really started raining, we went to find somewhere to eat lunch. We were pretty sodden by this point and so dashed into the first most family friendly pub we could find that happened to be a pizza pub! We ate a lovely lunch and I even had a cheeky raspberry cider!

After we were done there and the rain had calmed down, we headed to the V&A Museum of Childhood. I remember going on many school trips here and it was just as fab, if not better, than I remember. Along with the vast display cabinets full of toys from now and dating back to many many years ago, there were all sort of things for Zach to do and explore.

I think his favourite thing was dressing up though…I had no idea that he liked dressing up but yep, he does. Especially when he’s a wizard!

Daddy quite liked it too!!

Zach then sat down and did some sticking in the creative corner and was very proud of his creation – as was I.

Pretty much after that we were done and all needed to get home. A couple more train journeys to keep him awake and an early night and he was a happy boy from his fun filled weekend. And we were absolutely exhausted and asleep before 10pm!

So there’s our belated wonderful weekend post! I hope you guys had lots of fun too!