School holidays come to an end?

It is the last day of the French school holidays today but Wednesday and Thursday this week are public holidays and our school is having Friday off as well. So a bit of a waste of time going back tomorrow really. In fact at this stage it looks like jasper is going to be the only one of mine attending school tomorrow. Hannah is getting a new TA and the school can't meet her until Tuesday - although due to the short week and the fact that probably several children will be away tomorrow the teacher easily could have had Hannah without a TA! Also, Penelope twisted her ankle on our new trampoline so not sure if she will be up to walking around on it by tomorrow. Hopefully her ankle is all better by next Saturday as she is in a show with her singing group which should be lots of fun!

We have had a good second week of holidays. We had friends from Church in New Zealand staying with us last weekend. Unfortunately the weather was awful and they were on a cycling trip around southern France. So a bit wet for them for cycling and sightseeing. We were also very tired as we had only just got back from Portugal. We had a nice weekend though and the children loved entertaining their eighteen month old.




The rest of the week was spent relaxing, hanging out with friends, kids having sleepovers and going walking and also checking out the swimming pool in Muret.

James had to work on Saturday so despite Hannah having been quite difficult at MacDonalds the day before I decided to be brave and go on an outing with the kids on my own. I did a bit of research and found an animal parc combined with an amusement parc called Animaparc about 45 minutes from here.

It was a beautiful day (finally) so we packed a lunch and headed off - once I got my GPS to recognise the address! We arrived not really knowing what to expect but it was great! The kids loved going on the rides and there were no queues and the ride operators were all really nice and friendly. The rides were quite basic but enough for my kids. Hannah just loved all the bouncy castles and trampolines and Jasper and Penelope loved the jumping frog and the caterpillar roller coaster.


The log ride





The jumping frogs


The parc was busy but not jam packed and there was heaps of picnic tables to sit at to have our lunch.



The parc is in a forest and we wandered up the paths to feed the sheep and goats as well as to look at the llamas, donkeys, cows and pigs.










Hannah got a bit cross at one point because Jasper passed her on the bouncy castle but apart from that it all went well. We will definitely go back - especially once it is warmer and they have the pool area open.

The caterpillar roller coaster and yes even I had a go!





A great day out and best of all we have discovered a thai takeaway down the road and James brought home dinner - yah!


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