Soooo...We survived the first week back in work this year!!! Wooo!!! Well…just, we’re all knackered…myself and Jordan back in work, but the kids still off until tomorrow…thank god for family to help us out ey?
Anyways, last day of the holidays for the kiddies, so family day trip was the plan…what’s on the menu today?…FOLLY FARM!! Time to start making use of our annual passes before we have to start paying for Alaska.
Up nice and early…well after snoozing my alarm about 5 times (I’ve worked 5 long days in a row this week, I deserve a little lie in right?) to feed the animals and have a quick coffee before the rest of the gang decide to finally emerge from their slumber.
First task of the day (well after finding my own enthusiasm), dress the kids…and Jordan. I swear, three of us can get up, dressed and ready to go before jords even had her morning poo…to be fair she was rather sprightly this morning, must have been the excitement of the prospect of the kids going back to school tomorrow.
On our way then, luckily we’re only a short drive from the zoo…which is awesome. Quick stop off at Starbucks…my god I spend way too much money on coffee, but I don’t eat much fast food anymore so it’s my one vice…I’m sure they expect me now and are disappointed when I don’t turn up…they even give me discount for frequent flyer visits mun…I’m not addicted, I can quit anytime!! I just don’t want to 😂.
Anyways, Jordan orders a random frappe that she swore blind was on the menu, but they looked at me stupid when I asked for it and humoured me by making it…god knows what she ended up with, but looked decent, and the kids order the most expensive milk in the world…2 bloody quid for a cup of cold milk…that they ended up not even drinking…yeah that’s the last time you do that to me kids, next time you’ll have a coffee or nothing!! Oh and a lemon cake, which they fought over the whole way to Folly Farm…between the bickering and the rain I was regretting family day already…it’s gonna get better right?
Half way there, we’re breaking out in a Disney singalong like the boss assed family that we are…I don’t like to brag, but I taught Idina Menzel how to hit the high notes for her role in Frozen…’let it go’ is my jam, if your lucky one day you may get a rendition…‘I’m gonna be sick, I need a poo!!’…ffs jord, sorry I mean Gray!!…ok bud we’ll pull over and get you some magic Pembrokeshire fresh air…we don’t want a Seven Dwarves Mine Train scenario again!! Fortunately a bit of fresh air did the trick and Gray was fighting fit again. Finally arrive, and apparently the air in Pembrokeshire was failing again as the next thing I know I’m running through the zoo with Gray under my arm like a madman with a poo grenade…I’m sure the bugger was winding me up and just wanted to get into the zoo quicker as he funnily enough retracted his statement once we got in…this kid can be a nightmare on times…luckily I love him to bits.
Only have a few hours here, we’ve booked a meal later on, so just a leisurely stroll around. Pop in to check on the farm animals, then the tropical Forrest to see the bats and sloths, great stuff…that’s when we noticed that Gray had chosen attire akin to an American game hunter…oh so that’s your plan with the zoo is it bud? Bit of canned big game hunting?…umm maybe not today. Oh and for some reason Alaska had developed a new walk that wouldn’t look out of place in the east end of London…walking like one of the Mitchell brothers, guess she just fancied a change.
The cool thing about Folly Farm is that there is a HUGE indoor play area in amongst an old school fun fair…the kids love it, and to be fair so do I 😂…few donuts with chocolate dipping sauce for Jordan (oh and the kids were allowed half a donut each too)…to be fair the donuts looked well under par from they’re usual deep fried goodness, so me and the kids go for a play…umm I mean the kids play while I supervised 🙄…bloody hell Alaska has no fear at all, climbing everywhere and flying down the slides…oh and doing some creepy belly crawl down a walkway…I swear some of the kids were keeping a wide berth of her…I mean me and Gray were even considering it…regardless…THEY HAD A BLAST!!
Rightyo then, let’s go for another quick browse around the zoo before we have to shoot off…Grayson is in full on zoo curator mode, dropping all sorts of animal facts for us and whoever would listen…enjoy guys!!!…let me drop some knowledge on you all…just a few gems… ‘these are the Chinese Macaroni Penguins’ (umm they’re just Macaroni Penguins I think Gray, but ok)…’ooo look at that emu egg!! Kangaroos lay eggs too because the baby is in their pocket’…ah wrong again I’m afraid bud…but there was no convincing him otherwise, he knows what he knows and everyone else is wrong…can’t wait to incubate some kangaroo eggs!!
Ok then let’s make our way out of the park and off to the Caraway for a bit of food…starving!!! First stop though, a few quick pics on the winners podium by the go karts…what have we won? Fuck knows but Grayson’s won first place…guess it was the prize for most knowledgeable Fletcher judging by the vast display of information he’d dropped on us today…
Lunch time then… Now I should have known not to expect much from a chain pub, but I at least expected a half decent meal…nope!! One microwave lasagne for me please…now I love a lasagne, and have nothing against a nice micro lasagne, but didn’t enjoy paying a tenner for it, but hey, maybe Jordan’s Sunday lunch will at least be decent…yeah looks good, ‘oh and here’s some potatoes’…WTF are they??!! I swear they dropped off a few potato filled rocks…good thing Jords not eating much…don’t know what I expected really, last meal here weren’t great, but I live in hope and eternal optimism…what’s the definition of insanity again??…kids meals were great to be fair though, nice hand made pizzas that Gray demolished, and Alaska liked the look of it so much that she left it untouched and refused to eat it…that’s the kids meal sorted they evening then…bugger it let’s go home.
Nice chilled afternoon/evening with the gang, few Disney movies on the home cinema, educating Grayson and Alaska on the masterpiece that is ‘A Goofy Movie’…fuck, poor Goofys kid is a selfish bastard aii…all his dad wants is to have a father-son bonding adventure and all Max is concerned about is impressing a girl…Grayson take notes, this kid is a dick!! All works out in the end though…spoiler alert, Goofy is a hero, and I think Gray learned a valuable lesson…I owed him one after the teaching he’d given us all day to be fair.
Nice light evening meal of leftover pizza for Gray and Jordan, and a 6 pack of pickled onion monster munch for Alaska…wait what?!! Don’t think so little loo, go get something decent…yep a chocolate orange is much better…bloody kids 😂
Anyways, nice little day overall, and some nice family chill time, which is rare for us…Gray can’t wait to see all his friends tomorrow…and I think Jordan will be glad of the rest…no such luck for me, early start it is…catch you soon!!
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