Kodomo no kuni again

Perhaps our last day trip a bit further afield before the next Henington arrives, last Sunday we decided to go back to Kodomonokuni. This time we gave ourselves a few more hours to go to the pool and maybe do some other things.

Boy-o-boy was it hot and with Aiko carrying a large load around as well the pool seemed a good idea. It was pretty crowded- outside looked like push chair carpark and inside a bit like a penguin colony in Antartica; always one parent left behind looking after the towels whilst the others go off hunting....or queueing for waterslides.

Due to her condition the stationary role was largely performed by Aiko. At least we had a good spot next to a wet shiny patch where lots of kids slipped over as they ran past- live entertainment. No major injuries I hasten to add...but they shouldn't be running anyway, grumble grumble - grumpy old man..tssk where were their parents...

Anyway this, of course, left me to take AJ to the water....first we tried the 30cm pool and that was a bit boring so we then went to the 95cm pool. Now I must just mention that AJ is only about 100cm tall anyway (And I'm not much more) and both of us misjudged the entry somewhat. The end result was a spluttering son who now wanted to go back to Mum!!

Sometime later he got his courage back and we went off to a water slide where we had to queue for about an hour for one go. For a 2 and a bit year old AJ was quite patient and , whilst a bit embarassing, pinching the nipples of the boy next to him provided some entertainment to pass the time. The slide wasn't that great and resulted in the same spluttering AJ but he wanted to have more- I however was too bored with another hour wait....

We then went on a different slide with a shorter queue and using my engineering prowess was able to get a good bit of speed up which , painfully, translated into a heavy impact with the bottom of the pool....seriously!!!

A visit to the doctor is needed to patch me up for labour of Henington child #2 -not sure I can take all that pushing, pulling and punching in my current state.