What a fantastic day we had yesterday. We asked Eli a while ago if he would rather have a friend birthday party or do something special - that he could choose - with the family. Thankfully he chose to do something special with our family because it was going to be hard to find a good weekend to do a friend party!! So because David will be away on his actual birthday we chose yesterday to go out and do something. He wanted to go mini golfing and go karting so we set off to Victoria for the day.
Our first stop was Tim Hortons for lunch! The kids were funny and picked a table for 2 next to ours as Eli wanted to pretend it was just them out for lunch! I so remember Helen and I doing that and really thinking people would think we were on our own!
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| I asked Immy for a photo and this is what she did! Eli copied her! |
Next stop was Langford for golfing...
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| It was a bit of a free for all which usually happens when we take Imogen! |
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| She wanted to sit on the bridge?! |
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| This was near the last hole. She was super hot and tired and said she was all done and going to have a lie down!! |
After golfing was done we headed over to the go karts. There was a kids track and a big track. They decided to do the big track together (rather than Eli going on his own - he would have had to remember the difference between brake and gas and I'm not sure if he would have done it or not?!
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| David and Eli in the red car to the right |
We finished up there and drove in to Victoria. Managed to find a parking spot easily and headed straight to Marble Slab for ice cream!
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| M&M cookies and cream for the birthday boy. He wasn't wasting anytime looking up for a photo! |
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| by request... 'pink' ice cream for Imogen. It was called Cotton Candy Circus and had gummy bears and marshmallows in it. She loves both so I thought she would really like it but she was seriously unimpressed with candy in her ice cream and picked each one out and made a giant mess! |
After ice cream we walked through town and made our way to the Parliament buildings where they had all the Canada Day celebrations going on.
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| Walking past 'The Empress hotel' |
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| No idea how I managed to take pictures of my feet while I was walking?! I must have left my phone/camera on! |
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| Mummy and Immy listening to the music |
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| Eli dancing/collecting flags! |
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| Immy dancing |
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| getting his groove on! |
We sat on the grass for a while and listened to the music. The kids went on the bouncy castles and then we had a slow walk back through town and lastly we went to The Noodle Box for Eli's favourite dinner! It was such a lovely relaxing day out. Eli thoroughly enjoyed his 'pre-birthday' celebration and being Canada day made it even more special. Especially nice as we don't get to spend lots of time together lately so days like this one are just what we need!
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| A lovely parting photo of Eli slurping his noodles! |
