Good evening All!

It is 10.10 here, unlike the strange times that seem to be posted on the blog, which I can't find out how to change.

Wow! What a day! Cadbury World was a real hit with the children. What a monument to cholesterol and dentists' bills! But it is very sweetly done(no pun intended) and the children loved it. We started by walking through a cocoa tree forest, telling us the history of how the cocoa bean arrived in Europe, then to an audio-visual show about the history of Cadbury. One of the highlights was a second audio visual show explaining how chocolate is made. Every time the film said the chocolate was shaken, our seats shook; when it said anything about steam treatment, our seats made wooshing sounds and so on. You can imagine how the kids loved it.

They got the chance to practice writing their names in chocolate and we went on a little train ride of Cadbury Bean land, an animated ride. They each have a souvenir photo of that ride and some had key chains or fridge magnets made with the photo on them. They got the chance to create the chocolate of their dreams, and of course to go shopping in the Cadbury shop. Oh yes, and during the tour of the factory, they got free Cadbury chocolate several times. We ate our packed lunch in the playground there.

Then it was back to WMC for dinner. For dessert we had ordered a bithday cake for Christine and we all sang happy birthday to her.

Then the trip the kids were really looking forward to - Waterworld. What can I tell you, they had a whale of a time there. No photos unfortunately because it was all too wet! I wish you could have seen the looks of sheer joy on their faces as they came wooshing down the water shutes! We spent nearly three hours there and they enjoyed every minute!

We arrived back at 9.15 and off they all went to shower and get into pyjamas. Now they are writing their diaries and having hot chocolate and biscuits. Then it's off to bed for us all!

Good night and God bless!