Today was our annual trip to the fairground park, carefully timed to coincide with nice weather and a school day.  We thought we would never manage to get the two together!  So our day started kind of like this:  Mike complaining about how boring all the rides were and insisting that he’d be taking Antonia on this Boomerang thing before she’s very much older, never mind the fact that you have to be 15 cms taller than she is now.  So here he is, waiting to be turned upside-down at Mach speed on the Boomerang and he would like us to think he is waving!

Shortly after lunch, it became apparent that the rides were so ‘boring’ that he would stick with the position of official photographer instead.

Nothing would induce him to abandon his new vocation and get back on a ride.

As for me, I don’t think I’ve had so much fun since last year.  Of course, we didn’t have to queue once, and if we wanted to take a ride several times, we just stayed on it.  There was only about one other kid in the entire park of Antonia’ age, though there were a couple of coach loads of middle school kids on their end of year treat.  The place was so quiet that the attendants were willing to watch Antonia while we went on ‘big kid’ rides.  We managed a couple, before Mike discovered his new purpose in photography.  Antonia was thrilled with the whole day, and, at the end, exhausted. Between us, we took over a hundred rides.  It was great!