An Absolutely Amazing And Action Filled Day

Since it has just started raining here and we've had to cut our bug hunt short, we figured it would be time for a little blog update.

The first part of the day we must write about is the fact that it is Bella's birthday. This is the first time Springfield has had a birthday at Cardfields and Bella had a great time opening some presents given to her by her friends.

Having been promised that the children would sleep well tonight we were intrigued to see exactly what activities they would be getting up to. It has to be said that many of the children at breakfast were looking particularly sleepy still and some , when caught unawares, looked like they were auditioning for a zombie film as was the expression on their faces. For this reason we were beginning to believe the hype of the sleepier second night. Before we could even blink all these zombie like exoskeletons were soon removed to allow the  happy persona's shine through. The reason for this transformation was quite simply being told that the activities were about to start.

After being spilt into four groups they went their separate ways to start their activities of brass rubbing, block ink printing, blind trail and BMX'ing. Once they had completed two of these it was free play time and the children continued using tonnes of energy running around the four corners of this fantastic site. It was then back to the remaining activities and then lunch time. Thankfully, we were able to take advantage of the good weather and eat outside. This included lovely sandwiches, that we chose earlier in the week, oranges and chocolate cake.

Still, they were full of energy so more running around on the trim trail was needed, followed by games of football, basketball, tennis and too many other games to mention. Once this free time was over we all went over to one of the classrooms where we were told our next challenge... to find as many different bugs and creepy crawlies as humanly possible AND identify them using a key. All sorts were found and once again the children were full of giggles as well as excitement. This had to be cut short because of the rain and now we are back where the blog all started.

As we speak, or should I say type, the children are taking turns in washing their hands ready for dinner. In fact I do believe it may now be ready. Therefore I bid you farewell and look forward to not only tweeting you all about dinner but also writing another blog with our "photos of the day".

I must now apologise for the layout of these blog posts but unfortunately we've been unable to edit and arrange the photos for your viewing pleasure. I'm sure you'll agree that it's far better to have something on here than nothing at all though and hopefully Mr Davies may be able to amend it from his end or we can do it upon our return.