Cousins and ratburgers

[30th July]
After a touch of shopping, Ebi-kun's least favourite activity, we met up with my brother and his kids at the park. 

D has shot up, you'd never guess he is is just 2 years older than Ebi-kun! They had fun running around and being crazy kids.

And not just the kids, I think my brother still thinks he's 12!

This kept them busy for ages...

After we went to the Botanical gardens to see an outdoors production of Ratburger by David Walliams with Heartbreak Productions. The weather was kind, it was a bit chilly but at least it didn't rain. I had booked seats under the tent, just in case!

The play was great, only 5 cast members but they were fab. We all enjoyed it and I was surprised more seats weren't sold.

Hot chocolate to warm up with in the interval was a must! A fab day out again!

Birthday Fun

It was a fairly low key event this year, of course he got his 'number T-shirt' a tradition, I accidentally started back when he was 2!

We took the train to Manchester for the requested lunch... at Jamie's Italian, I'm pretty sure he waits for this all year long!

 

It was great, as expected! If you plan on going, join the free online gold club before you go to get freebies and specials, they did us proud this time around! Mom and I got free wine, and Ebi-kun got homemade lemonade, also a couple of tasters and his dessert was free too.

Took him a while to decide but he went for the carbonara in the end...

Then he got a special warm brownie with salted caramel ice-cream, caramel pop-corn and butterscotch sauce. It was really good but he struggled to finish it! (Of course I had to help him a bit!)

We then had to go to the book store and the Lego shop, after all that we were all knackered and decided to head home... for birthday cake (a bit of a cake overdose!) Colin The Caterpillar from M&S, had to be done!

All good fun, another year done! He is already planning on what he will order from Jamie next year!