Twin Mummy's First Trip to the Lake
Today, I decided to take our girls to the lake. It’s been a beautiful sunny day and I wanted to make the most of it. Especially with Summer coming. This means being a little more flexible with our routine.
After a good nights sleep, R woke around 6am followed by M at 7am. After breakfast, a bath, playtime and a snack we headed out of the door. Both girls fell asleep in the car on the way to the park which I thought they would. We arrived around 1030am. The first stop was to feed the ducks, swans and geese. The girls were fascinated by the birds and were pointing and staring at them for ages!
We then headed to the swings and after a play on them I lay down a blanket on a patch of grass and we all sat down. The girls loved crawling around and R had fun collecting twigs while M circled the pushchair playing peek a boo!
Around 1130am my sister, her fiancée and 7 month old daughter joined us. We headed to the cafe around 12pm and this is where the fun began!
Until today I hadn’t found a door that I couldn’t get the double buggy through. When we got to the cafe I had to go in first and ask one of the staff if they could open both doors so I could get the pushchair in which they did, however there was a second door which I couldn’t get through so I asked the staff if I could fold the pushchair and leave it some where. No, I was told. I would have to go out of the cafe and right around to the other side and enter via the patio doors. Ok I thought but when I got there a picnic bench was half blocking the doors so I had to fold the pushchair up and leave it up against a wall.
The next bit of fun was finding a high chair. I asked and was told they only had 5 and all were being used. Surely a cafe as big as this should have more than 5 high chairs I thought. Anyway, I decided to put the pushchair up and sit the girls in it inside the cafe as they couldn’t eat their lunch whilst sat on my lap. I managed to tuck the pushchair in so people had enough room to pass.
After ordering some food, the waitress arrived at our table with the wrong food! I ordered fish fingers and chips for the girls and sausage, beans and chips for myself but she brought two omelettes and a plate of chips with beans! A little while later and our correct food order arrived! The girls enjoyed their fish fingers and I enjoyed my food too.
We left the cafe at 1pm and the girls slept in the pushchair until 2:10pm, so we had a wander around the lake and enjoyed the sun.
A lovely day out and I will definitely do it again but next time I think I’ll bring a picnic!
