Octonauts in Stratford

General 

Elliott was good for most of today. Unfortunately he had a meltdown when we had our packed lunch in the Olympic Park as he didn't want water he wanted orange. He walked off and got very worked up. However after a measured talking to and ignoring him for a bit he calmed down and was a little sheepish for a while, eating his lunch on my knee away from every one else for a bit. However he soon re-integrated and was back on form.

Activities

In the morning we met up with Dave, Alice and Fi Reed at Reading station and made our way up to Westfield shopping centre in Stratford by train and tube. This was good fun and Elliott was really pleased to give the girls their soft toy Wenlock presents. When we got to Westfield we met up with Alex and Lucas Dawson and also gave Lucas his soft toy Wenlock present. Then we headed off to the part of the Olympic Park that's now open for our packed lunches. There was a kids festival going on there (Lollibop) which we'd previously decided not to pay to go to and unfortunately this took up quite a bit of the park, but the path by the canal and some of the open areas were still open so we headed there for lunch. Lunch was fun and they all played nicely together apart from Elliott's drinks meltdown.    

After lunch we headed back to Westfield shopping centre for an Octonauts show. This was really good fun with a lifesize Captain Barnacles and Shellington along with a compere. There was lots of singing and dancing with moves and clapping along and everyone was joining in. After the Octonauts show we all went to the Lego shop which was great and had lots of Lego for everyone to play with and dream of owning. Then Alex and Lucas left for home and the rest of us started the tube and rail journey home. After we got to Reading and said goodbye to Dave, Alice and Fi we headed home a tea of hot dogs - although he was a bit funny about the sausages unfortunately.

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