Butlins, Skegness–Tuesday

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I had a lazy day on Tuesday after the exertion of the previous day. We decided to take a trip to the local Co-op to stock up on food for meals. We’d planned to have various take-aways for dinner so we didn’t have to cook but after spending £60 in one day on lunch and dinner, we decided we couldn’t justify the expense any longer and we’d rather spend our holiday money on fun things!
Aiden waited at the apartment while we went shopping. He’s a typical boy and always stays at home if he can when we shop!
I treated myself to a Christmas magazine and a puzzle book and the girls had a girly magazine each that had headbands, a glove and a necklace as free gifts.
After lunch, Ant took the kids to Centre Stage to watch Sleeping Beauty pantomime. What we didn’t know was that at the start of the week, we should have gone and picked up wristbands to enable us to have a seat at shows. We knew nothing of this; the girls ended up sitting on the floor, Aiden ended up coming home because everywhere he tried to sit he got moved by a redcoat telling him he couldn’t sit there and Ant ended up standing for the most part until someone took pity on him and passed him a chair.
Ant wasn’t at all impressed and it was one of the few things that we were disappointed with.
After the panto, the kids went for a photo shoot with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Tweety. Aiden went back to the pavilion in time for the photo shoot then they all came back to the apartment for dinner.
The beach at Butlins closes at 5.30 so we decided to take the kids for an hour or so before dinner. They needed to run off some excess energy!

 

It was freezing a bit cold on the sea front but it didn’t bother the kids.
Ella was down at the sea with KayCee and Ant, trying to fill her bucket so she could tip it in the hole Aiden was digging when the tide took her legs from under her. Ant was filming at the time and the camera ended up filming the inside of his pocket while he rescued her. She was fine, it didn’t bother her at all and she tried to go back in after her bucket…. Ant stopped her and rescued the bucket!

She walked home in Ant’s jumper and everyone had a nice warm shower when we got back before tucking into bonfire sausages, (a special recipe from the Co-op including apples and black treacle) mash, peas and caramelised onion gravy. It was delicious, although KayCee didn’t like the sausages, which is typical of KayCee!

To be continued……

Please note: None of these posts have been sponsored by Butlins. We haven’t had any payment/free gifts from Butlins and paid for our holiday/food/entertainment in full.

2 Comments

  1. Shell Louise 6th November 2011 at 12:48 pm

    We did have a great time and KayCee asked why we couldn't live at Butlins!

    Thanks for stopping by 🙂 xx

  2. motivatingmumuk 2nd November 2011 at 4:38 pm

    Sounds great- my kind of kiddy holiday…

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