The girl has taken to pretending to be 'the teacher' in many of her games recently, so I thought I'd structure our holiday updates accordingly. And the first lesson is history. Kindof.
On our first afternoon we popped over to Kenilworth Castle. Many years ago in the dinky years we invested in life membership of English Heritage, and so we felt that popping into Kenilworth Castle for an hour or so to run around on a sunny afternoon was perfectly acceptable. We've been twice before and this time didn't really spend much time looking at the castle, although we did enjoy playing in the Elizabethan gardens.
As luck would have it, the castle was having some St George's Day celebrations and so there was a lot more going on than usual. We watched some people in spotlessly clean medieval dress waiting in a queue for the toilets, and enjoyed the knight school where dozens of children hit each other with foam swords. The highlights though were the dancing and the dragon story. Marisca and Elspeth got involved with some medieval dancing (Marisca, in particular, really got the hang of it and had immense fun).
Our second history lesson was a trip to the Black Country Living Museum. On a Monday it was more of a Black Country School Trip Museum, but that did mean that if we avoided the groups it was quite quiet for a nice explore. Highlights were the little park where we had our picnic lunch and a lot of running chasing games:
The fairground where Marisca enjoyed her horse on the carousel but Tom REALLY enjoyed driving his car:
And the vehicles - a vintage car showroom and the double decker bus: "CaCar, CaCar"
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