April Holidays.

The April Holidays have come and gone. Usually they're the Easter Holidays but this year Easter falls right at the end of April so they were just the April holidays!

It was a short and busy week, with Niave's birthday slap, bang in the middle.

Much of the time was taken up in preparation for her birthday and party but we did have some outings in between.

On the last day of last term we visited a little farmyardy place just down the road. I'd often driven past it but we'd never visited before. It is a sweet little place, quite rustic but has quite a few animals and they all look loved and cared for.

Abigail playing hide and seek with an Alpaca! She was hilarious, she would run straight into that bush and then "hide away" from whoever was following her! This waist-high-to-a-9-year old Shetland pony was the one that sent Niave into a complete foot stamping, eardrum-piercing scream of a tantrum!

She managed to hold the bunny and Guinea pigs without suffocating them - it was close, but she managed!! Abigail loved every minute, she could have stayed all day.

Later in the week we finally took a picnic and had an outing to the Greenpoint park which was established around the time of the World Cup last year.

It is a beautiful park with lots of wide open spaces to run and play, have a picnic or read a book. There is also a lot of water around to add to the atmosphere!

Some pictures:

We had our picnic in the shadow of the lighthouse, the girls took their Rollerblades and scooter along to use on the pathways.

We spent quite a while at the mini gym, a great alternative to the usual park apparatus as it can be used by both children and adults, most had a lower and higher version to accommodate different sizes.

This human clock was interesting, there is a diagram in the middle with the months of the year on it, you have to stand on the date that you are on and hold your arms up like Abigail is doing in this picture and the sun shows the time - like an enormous sundial really! Quite clever.

I didn't see many real fish but there were these pretty fake ones!And seeing as we were in Greenpoint and the Putt-Putt was just across the road we had a game. There were some interesting styles to say the least!!!

The first Saturday of every month is when you can head out to Parow for rides on mini trains at the Western Province Live Steamers Club. We've been a couple of times before.

The kids enjoyed it this time too despite a really loooong wait - it's definitely grown in popularity and the queues are longer than when we first started going but it quietened down as the afternoon drew on.

There is another Easter holiday coming up and hopefully time for some more fun in amongst the celebrations.