Conversations with Myself…

Travels with the “Family”

Well I didn’t get to update yesterday because I was having such a fun time! The day out seemed like a success with numerous highlights.

Today’s post is gonna be a little different as it’s going in a form of a little photo story, well not even a story, more like number of storbsevations (stories and observations?).

So… the day began with everyone arriving virtually on time (quite a rare feat indeed), but plans hadn’t actually been made on what we were doing..! Anyway, after grabbing a couple of brochures from the library still nothing happened.

The weather was surprisingly really good seeing as the forecast suggested it was going to be overcast with possible rain. But looking at this weather didn’t help decide what we were meant to be doing or where we were meant to be going and by this time our stomachs were clouding judgement with lunch calling.

Lunch was interesting as it was jokingly suggested that we were a (rather dysfunctional) family going on a random day out – I was the father, with two rather noisy kids and a grumpy wife.

After this exciting meal, two ideas had then been suggested: Mini Golfing in some mystery location or going to Southsea. At the end of it Southsea was the choice.

Finally after arriving, the “wife” was far more interested in the plant-life than what we were actually doing. Eventually ending up at an arcade and gambling money away... what a wonderful start to the day!

So after we won and subsequently lost money it was time to do something more interesting than being stuck inside playing on a, probably broken, machine. The question was then: What next?

The Answer…

A Pedalo, a duck pedalo in fact! We did all sorts of fancy manoeuvres and speeds and turns. It was wild!

Ice Creams were next on the agenda. Who knows when this type of weather would appear? Ahhh British Summer…

Next up: a Model Village! It took us over 45 minutes to get round the whole thing. Everything was pretty amusing and hilarious in it. As quoted: “Best £2 I’ve Spent!“.

First off, the gravestones:

They had amusing “engravings” on them, for example:

In Memory of Charlotte:
Born a Virgin
Died a Harlot
For 16 years
She kept her virginity
A wonderful thing
In this vicinity

RIP
This spot is the sweetest I’ve seen in my life
It raises my flowers and covers my wife

This is no time for joking
This one did not give up smoking

Other amusing things included a dog which enjoyed being upside down:

A seagull that was the size of the house’s chimney:

What was more amusing was this village seemed to have some rather unusual residents:

From the Teletubbies, Winnie the Pooh and gang, the characters from the Wind and the Willows, Humpty Dumpty and Bob the Builder who seemed to own a zoo/farm.

Also! Thomas the Tank Engine and his rail-inclined mate James was the local the rail service.

Here is the midwife of the village who “delivers everywhere!”

There was also the Little Folks Middle School whose head mistress was Miss Behavior, the local Green Grocer was owned by Mr R.T. Choke and the Butcher was owned by Ivan Oxen.
All pretty bad puns…

I also found these Gypsies in the back garden of this resident who just simply waved at them, they also seem to own a tram service which goes nowhere.

I also found these exciting signs on our travels! I really wanted a hot dog that day… Advertising works! Granted that the Hot Dog was actually dressing itself to be eaten, kinda a suicidal message of which I doubt anyone actually will notice.

During the day we saw a lot of Wildlife… a totally amazing!

Finally we ended the day having fun by Southsea Castle and at the arcades again, losing yet more money!

Here’s the hovercraft that almost blinded us when it turned around blowing sand and sea water towards us!

During dinner, of chips and burgers/fish/sausages, the weather began getting bad. Ready for the rain that has occurred today! Hooray!

One final thing: According to the brochure we used, the parking is apparently… in the sea?

It was a very good day out overall!

Ps. If you haven’t already got this from the whole post… Southsea is a good place to go for a fancy day out!