Yesterday's ramblings

I always seem to be blogging a day behind these day, which is highly confusing for a confused blonde!! Anyway Mr Messy took Little Miss Sensible and Drama Teen to London for the day, he was going to a photography exhibition, LMS was meeting some friends and Drama Teen was going to a CLAPA Youth Council meeting. I had planned to take Fraulein and Little Prince to the cinema, to see Alvin and the Chipmunks. However, Fraulein decided she had to stay behind to do her homework, so just me and Little Prince went. He enjoyed the film mostly, but there was too much singing and concert footage and not enough slapstick and visual humour for him. He also found it quite scary that Dave (who the chipmunks ended up living with) didn't want to be a family (kept insisting it was a business arrangement) and then when the Chipmunks misbehaved too much, he threw them out! For an adopted child with security issues, that must have been quite scary too see - Little Prince insisted on having his blankie and sitting on my knee. However, in true Kids Movie fashion, there was a happy ending and the Chipmunks ended up back with Dave and he ended up admitting he loved them and they WERE his kids :-) This calmed Little Prince right down, and he was ready for lunch!! We had lunch in a nearby cafe, had just sat down with our food, when he announced he wanted the toilet!! Great timing NOT! Had to leave our lunches going cold to join the HUGE queue for the ladies toilets, after waiting for ages we dived in the disabled toilets instead. Too late, unfortunately. After finishing off our lunches we had to go off in search of dry trousers and undies, which had Power Rangers on so all was well with the world again :-)
To give Fraulein enough time to complete her homework without Little Prince's "help" we decided to visit the local indoor play centre. The traffic was diabolical, so I tried to detour to a different play centre - it had been closed down!! On going back round to the one we had originally intended visiting, the traffic was still backed up and it would have taken much too long to get there. I decided to take him to yet another one, which was about 1/2 hours drive away - we got there to find that too was now closed down!! Don't kids play any more?!?! Little Prince was NOT happy with all of this, but cheered up when I said we could watch some Power Rangers at home.