Egyptian dancing

General 

Elliott was good today apart for talking about asking for a phone for Christmas so he can play Pokemon Go. I told him he is probably still too young for a phone so he spent a while being upset, but conversation did move on after 10 minutes or so.

Activities

Before breakfast Elliott read some more of "The Demon Headmaster" and then he had Weetabix with sugar for breakfast. After breakfast we headed for the park up the road from Granny and Grandpa's house with Elliott's scooter. He played more Pokemon Go in the park and caught quite a few new Pokemon and also did lots of scootering in the little skate park there. After a finding a few more Pokestops in Downton on the way home we had ham sandwiches for lunch. 

After lunch we drove to Salisbury and parked by the cricket pitch in Harnham so we could walk in to town along the town path and catch some more Pokemon. When we got in to town we met up with Peter, Charlie and Alice Sladen and went to Salisbury museum in the Close. There are Egyptian themed activities there for families and today's activity was an Egyptian dance workshop. After a quick slide show about who the Egyptians were and how their dancing evolved (which was delivered quite engagingly) we were then all taught Egyptian dance moves which we then danced to Egyptian music. Elliott and Charlie really got in to the spirit of the dancing and seemed to enjoy themselves, though Alice was a bit more bashful. We were also the only people there so we were able to relax a bit:

After the dance workshop we looked round the rest of the museum and there was a challenge to find 10 Lego sphinxs in the exhibitions that Elliott, Charlie and Alice completed and enjoyed taking part in. There were also some good hands on exhibits for them and an opportunity to dress up. After we'd finished at the museum we went to Costa Coffee in Salisbury for some drinks before Elliott, Andrea and I said our goodbyes and walked back along the town path to the car, via a few more Pokemon and Pokestops. After we got home Elliott read more of the "The Demon Dentist" before we had burgers with buns for tea. Then it was bath time, followed by bedtime squash, brushing his teeth and a made up story in bed before it was time to go to sleep.