Birthday trip to Thomasland

William was very snuggly this morning, I am not sure, after all the build up, that he actually realised that the day had come. It was his 4th Birthday! So instead of us being hassled to get dressed and head downstairs, it was us persuading him to get out of bed and get dressed.

Once downstairs he was very pleased with his pile of presents and his new big scooter. We had birthday breakfast (sausage sandwiches) before we checked the weather and packed up to travel to the Midlands.

Luckily the hurricane like storm that was forecast, passed early this morning and much to the south of it's predicted route. The roads were quite and so was Drayton Manor Park. There were few if any queues, when we did queue it was only for one ride and then we were on. We rode on Percy and Thomas (we didn't get on Thomas last year). William was persuaded to try Troublesome trucks again after not liking it at all last year. He professed to liking it but it took most of the day to persuade him to go on again. Having said that he loved the Buffalo Rollercoaster in the main park and went on it back to back.

Carys persuaded me to allow her on the Ben 10 rollercoaster, which was pretty fast. The ride itself didn't bother her, she loved it, but the walk through of spooky corridors up to the ride had he hanging on to my hand very, very tightly. She then persuaded Daddy to go on with her, while William rode on the Flying Dutchman solo (literally there was no one else on it!).

The weather held until the very end of the day, although the adults thought it was cold the kids didn't seem to notice. Changed them in to PJ's in the car park, picnic tea in the car and they were asleep after not too long. A lovely birthday day for everyone.

Carys wrote to the tooth fairy last night asking her not to take her tooth and asking what her (the tooth fairy's) name was. The tooth was still here this morning complete with reply from Cherry Snowfrost, Carys's tooth fairy. Her face was wonderful as she read out the reply. I feel this could be the beginning of a long correspondence.