Studland Bay

General 

Elliott was really good today.

Activities

We made an early start today and set off for Studland Bay straight after breakfast with a packed lunch. The journey there was quite busy but the most exciting bit was going on a car ferry between Poole and Studland. This was quite a short journey, we barely had time to get out the car before we had to get back in again because we were arriving on the other side. When we got to Studland we parked and set up on the beach:

Elliott spent the first part of the day running in and out of the shallows of the sea with me. Then we had our packed ham rolls for lunch followed by yogurt rasins. 

After lunch Elliott and I walked to the end of the beach where there were some rock pools and we carefully climbed over the rocks to have a look:

We didn't find any creatures but we found a lot of sea-weed. While we were there a huge army plane flew over us a couple of times and eventually dropped a parachute boat out of the back. Then a chinook helicopter flew over and lifted the boats out of the sea, flew them around and then put them back in the sea again. We enjoyed watching all this along with the rest of the people on the beach. Then we made our way back to Andrea and all three of us did some paddling, with Elliott going in up to his waist and doing some swimming as well as splashing:

Then we had a game of cricket with our small cricket set before we walked to the other end of the beach where there was a cafe where we had some tea. Elliott had apple juice and millionaire shortbread. By the time we'd walked back to our blanket on the beach it was time to go and we drove to Tower Park for tea. We went to TGI Fridays and Elliott had a hot dog for his meal. After tea we drove home and there was time for a quick bath, bedtime squash, teeth brushing, some Pokemon watching on the iPad and then time for sleep. During the day Elliott also played lots of Pokemon Go and read lots more of "The Demon Dentist" (he's now read up to page 220 which is about half way through the book).