Parties and Leeds

It was a busy weekend for Tom.  Friday evening he spent round Fred's house.  Fred has left Ingleton school and is now going to Giggleswick School (the local private school).  I'm not 100% sure why - think it was a mix of friendship issues and academic issues.  Anyway he was missing Tom so he went over for tea.  Sounds like he has settled in well and is enjoying school life - it is a long day though - the bus picks him up at 7.50 and Caroline picks him up from Settle at 5.15.  This, the boy who doesn't do after school clubs because he doesn't like being away from home???!

Saturday football was cancelled as everywhere was flooded and icy (the whole area flooded on Wednesday).  Was a good thing really as Tom had two parties today.  The first one was at a newly opened trampoline park in Morecambe at 12.00 so we didn't have to rush as we would have done if football was on.

The trampoline park in Morecambe was AMAZING.  Don't think it has been open for long, there was hardly anyone there, so the party had the run of the place.  Finn was there, he had been before and was not scared of doing flips, somersaults etc etc.  Tom took his lead from him and gradually got better and better and generally had a really good time.  After an hour the kids came off, all of them were red in the face and sweaty!  Then a pizza lunch followed by chocolate cake (beautiful British fayre!)

We did a spot of shopping in a retail park and then headed home.  Before too long it was time for Tom's second party - a disco party at the scout hut (6pm to 8pm), now what could Matt and I do whilst Tom was at a disco party?  Yep, you've guessed it - we went out for tea, to the Marton Arms where we both had great food.  So good that we booked again for next weekend with Mum and Dad.

Bundobust - eatery par excellence

On the water taxi

Sunday dawned a nice day but the forecast was for rain, so we decided to head to Leeds on the train.  As we had gorged ourselves yesterday we headed to Bundobust for lunch - a vegetarian Indian street food restaurant which is excellent and sells a very good selection of craft beer.  We dug in and weren't disappointed.  Certainly our most favourite veggie restaurant.  We then headed on the little boat to The Royal Armouries Museum to look at swords, guns, horses and elephants.  I was disappointed that it all related to ancient / medieval history - I personally don't find that history interesting, I prefer 20th Century stuff, but there was nothing from that period, apart from in the shop??!

Marksman Tom

After we had gone round it all, we headed back on the boat, did a tiny spot of shopping and then went to Wasabi to get some sushi for tea.  We walked to the train station, got on our train and enjoyed our tea and the ride home.  Back home for the last day of Grand Sumo and bed.