Museums Saturday

I don't know quite how we packed so much into this one day!

As every Saturday, N had her swimming class first thing. With a new teacher, who is an absolute natural at teaching - engaging, fun, he got her to do things like submerge her entire head! She had an absolute blast.

After that, Mr needed some space to prepare the lesson for Sunday School so I took the kids to Aerospace. They know it quite well by now but there's always something to see...

After lunch, Mr joined us for a trip into the town centre where we had learned about a flock of woolly seagulls to find. They were hiding in the MShed (there are more in other locations but we didn't have time before closing)... lots and lots of them! Oh Bristol, so lovely and wacky and random.

Can you spot the seagull in each of the pics below?

...and a real seagull too!

Having found enough seagulls we headed into town for a coffee at Dom's, our favourite cafe. Why favourite? Well, to start with, today I had 3 (!!!) vegan cake options to choose from. It's got masses of space, is never too busy, and is beautiful inside. Oh and we like the name.

On our way to Dom's we walked by a young lady who was carrying a plastic fish. N took it upon herself to ask her why she had a fish. She said she found it, but gave it to N! She wasn't too impressed with it but D took it to his heart and has carried the fish everywhere since.

He's discovered looking at the world upside down.

Her face!

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