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A Day Out at Nickelodeon Adventure Lakeside

Posted on September 17, 2021July 8, 2024 by Dann Sullivan

Ever since Jupiter brought home a Spongebob Squarepants video game to review, the kids have been really interested in this strange, underwater sponge. With requests of Krabby Patties and random singing of “Krusty Krab Pizza, is the Pizza, for You and MEEEEE” around the house, we thought it was time to take the kids to Nickelodeon Adventure at Lakeside! This place has a massive Spongebob Squarepants section, as well as a Paw Patrol area and a Teenage Ninja Turtles area, but whoever you take needs to really love one of these TV shows to make it worth while.

Paw Patrol Area

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KiwiCo Tinker Crate – Glowing Pendulum | Review

Posted on September 5, 2021September 6, 2021 by Dann Sullivan

Another month, another cool box from KiwiCo. This time, for our fourth KiwiCo Tinker Crate, Kai and I worked together to build an absolutely amazing Glowing Pendulum. It’s a far cry from the previous boxes, which had us build Spin Art Machines, Walking Robots as well as a functional Crane and Pulley, but the clever application of science to create a fun plaything carries through. Also included were a few challenges and related facts through the TinkerZine that comes with each box.

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A Day Out at IWM Churchill War Rooms

Posted on August 31, 2021August 27, 2024 by Dann Sullivan

[Ad- gifted experience] As he gets older, Kai is getting more and more interested in history, but perhaps most specifically in areas that his schooling have touched on; WWII, the Tudors and Anglo-Saxon Britain. As such we’ve taken him along to a ringwork and bailey fortification, manor houses and museums over the years, but a great opportunity presented itself in the form of visiting the Churchill War Rooms recently, and so we headed over.

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Wahaca – Mexican Street Food | Restaurant Review

Posted on August 18, 2021November 14, 2024 by Dann Sullivan

For my birthday last year, I wanted to go out to one of my favourite restaurants; Wahaca. It’s been some time since I’ve been, due to the whole lockdown situation and the lack of events in London, so it felt like a great time to journey into the city and try some tacos and street food with my family. My kids have actually never been to Wahaca, so it was very lovely to get to show them a restaurant that I have enjoyed. When Jupiter and I go to Wahaca, we normally order a bunch of small items from their menu and split them, so that’s what we did here.

Strawberry Daiquiri & Horchata

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A Day Out at Rascal Bay Adventure Golf

Posted on August 9, 2021July 8, 2024 by Dann Sullivan

We love a bit of mini-golf at our household, so when summer came, we set off to a new golf course. This time, we went to Rascal Bay Adventure Golf in Brentwood. I’m not sure if Rascal Bay really knows what theme it want’s to be, and instead seems to combine pirates with dinosaurs, throwing in a lava zone and adding… cannibalism? Again, we didn’t really see how all of these connected in a small 18 golf hole place, but we were happy to be somewhere new none-the-less.

In Rascal Bay, you start off in a pirate area, going through holes that are themed around these. One of the first awesome holes we came too was a cannon that made a loud noise if you got the ball through it, spitting it out on the other side. It was a very good start to our golf time and proved to be Kai’s over-all favourite hole! Soon, we hit a hole with a photo opp in the middle – a pot cooking humans, which ended the pirate area for a bit, as we moved onto the jungle area. All of a sudden, the course was pretty focused on animals, the snake being Jupiter’s favourite hole. It looks like a really, impossibly twisty snake, but if you put your ball in you will hear a click and hear the ball being moved before shooting out the tail.

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