Sundown Adventureland and Geocaching

A trip to Retford for some Geocaching and adventures at Sundown. We couldn’t believe it when we woke up to find it was pouring down with rain. We did check the weather at Retford and it said it was cloudy with a small chance of rain, so we braved the idea and prepared just in case.

Thank goodness it cleared up and to the point of sunny and hot by the afternoon. It was the best outcome in a way because it did put some of the public off going along to Sundown Adventureland which became our first part of the day.

Thank you to Sundown Adventureland for gifting us the tickets.

 

We thoroughly enjoyed the rides, we felt Robyn was a perfect starting age at three years old, she didn’t want the rides to end. Riley enjoyed the storytelling of the rides and it certainly helped his imagination and role play throughout the day.

 

Sophie enjoyed the play areas and making games up to involve Riley and Robyn in play. They were happily playing in these areas and we found that we could have a short break as mum and dad.

 

Be careful though because your children might end up wanted. There was so much for them to do, interactive games, walls, buttons, rooms, acitvities, areas. The wild west themed part of Sundown was our favourite but it was a hard pick.

 

To describe the park is in its title Sundown Adventureland, the three children certainly had their own adventures and came together as a trio as well. They were all tuckered out by the end of Sundown but we did have some time for Geocaching.

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We were especially excited to meet Honey and Sunny themselves at the summertime fun activities, the children enjoyed a boogie with them and joined in the conga line. Robyn didn’t want Honey and Sunny to go, this made her day even more special.

We think our video speaks for itself, you can also watch us Geocaching in action. Have you found the church micro in Bole?

 

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Jen says “What a fantastic day out for young families, it has everything you could want. Make sure you explore the whole park though as there is plenty to discover”

Rob says “Fabulous family entertainment. A fair entry price and we look forward to seeing what the Christmas season is like at Sundown”

Sophie says “I think that you should go to Sundown because you get to have lots of fun with your family and make memories like I did”

Riley says “I liked Sundown because the rides are very cool and the water ride was the best”

Robyn says “Can we go again?”

 

Further information about the Summertime Fun… 

“Summertime Fun” activities will run between 12pm and 6pm on the picnic field until Sunday 1 September. 

Every day from 12pm, the park will be hosting children’s party games such as school disco classic ‘four corners’ and the limbo, giving every child the chance to win their very own bear. Visitors can meet Honey, Sunny, Kiki and Koko and pose for photos from 2pm, before they get the party started with conga lines, agadoo and the macarena on the picnic field until 6pm.  

The park’s usual attractions, shops and restaurants will all be open until 6pm including a four-storey indoor play area Crash Landings, liquorice and sweet-smelling fairy-tale Lollipoppet Castle complete with its very own sleeping dragon, the Wild Ostrich Safari Ride which takes you through the African Savannah on the back of an ostrich, yodelling goats and talking potatoes at Sundown Market, and many more interactive rides and play areas. 

Tickets for adults and children over 90cm are £16.75 and children under 90cm go free. Family passes are also available to purchase. To book, visit: https://tickets.sundownadventureland.co.uk/webstore/shop/viewitems.aspx?cg=pkt&c=pkt

For more information about the event, visit the website: https://www.sundownadventureland.co.uk

 

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Hull Fish Trail

A couple of month’s ago we had a local adventure in discovering the Fish Trail in Hull City Centre. I had completed this as a child but despite living back here for over five years, I hadn’t taken my three children to discover the 41 different spots.

Our adventure was a part of The Hull Hub Issue 7 which is currently available to pick up at different locations in and around the city. You can also read online.


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Issue 7 of The Hull Hub

 

We also captured some footage of our discoveries and wanted to share it all with you. Enjoy…

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Jennifer.

Milestones

We have hit another Geocaching milestone and so we felt we should share all of our milestone videos with you. In descending order for you.

 

Thats right we have hit the milestone of 400…

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Here’s our 300th find video:

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Here’s our 200th find video:

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Here’s our 100th find video:

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We hope you’ve enjoyed celebrating with us.

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Chalking and Geocaching in Kooties Coveralls

We were gifted a Kooties coverall a couple of weeks ago and we have spent some time trying it out with Robyn (3).

WE WENT GEOCACHING, keep reading to find out our caching fun.

Robyn absolutely loves to pretend to be a doctor and make everyone better. There was an obvious choice when deciding which coverall to go for, you can choose between: fire fighter, construction worker, paramedic and police officer.

Kooties are a worlds first coverall that combines messy play and role play.

We have three children and so this is perfect for us as our washing machine is always on the go when they have been playing outside with chalk, painting with water or in the mud. Our kids seem to get covered in all sorts and so I was excited to see if it would reduce our in the week wash down with Robyn’s school uniform.

Robyn’s first impressions was that she couldn’t wait to get in them, she loved that she could be a ‘doctor’ and fix everyone back together again.  Robyn is 3 but 4 in November, we decided to go for a size 3-4 because she is on the tiny side. We were pleased that the Kooties coverall had plenty of space to grow but it didn’t matter that it was a bit big her her because of the elastic on the wrists and ankles. Either way they offer a lot of space making it easy to get the coverall over all of Robyn’s clothes.

The first thing we did was let Robyn chalk away and it proved useful because it meant her school clothes were kept clean. The chalk was easy to wipe off the coveralls as well. Find out about the chalking in the vlog (keep reading).

Whilst out Geocaching Robyn enjoyed searching for someone in need and running to help as well as running to find the cache. Often when we are out Geocaching we wear old clothes because we don’t want to get them muddy or grass stained, the coverall is a perfect alternative for the kids and it means we wouldn’t have to worry as much.

Robyn was very happy playing in the Kooties coveralls, you can see for yourself in this short video we put together. See what Geocache we discover…

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Fun Science Workshop

In the last half term the three little Gilmour’s went to try out their first Spectac-u-lab workshop. We had in fact won a giveaway for one of their places and it was something we had seen online but hadn’t had the chance to try it out. We paid for the other two spaces so all three children could go and enjoy the workshop together.

We had selected the rocket workshop and was excited to find out what this would entail. Not only would they create the rockets but they would find out the science behind them. Katy is the owner of Spectac-u-lab and she is creative with the science. The children could understand why the reaction would create the result.

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Table’s prepped, rockets selected, stickers at the ready. Oh wait and…

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…Well equipped.

I have to say it was a huge success and all three kids enjoyed it, they continued to explode their rockets and create at home.

If we were closer to the venue we would certainly go to the Spectac-u-lab CREST Award, it’s perfect for my eldest.

The workshops are affordable, fun, creative, interesting and educational. Thank you Katy for a memorable morning.

Workshops are usually priced at £5 per child per workshop, each workshop is an hour.

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This half term:

28th May: Bath Bombs – Winterton

29th May: Egg Parachutes – Beverley

We plan to go to the Egg Parachute workshop and this time bringing Daddy with us to enjoy the fun.

 

Cherry View Milk

What a perfect add on when you are visiting Beverley in East Yorkshire. Cherry View Milk has its own MILK VENDING MACHINE!

Rob was told about this from someone at his work and so we thought we would check it out whilst out Geoaching nearby. We had to share with you our adventures, at first we captured on our Instagram profiles but then we decided to grab some footage to make a clip. Keep on reading to watch.

We visited a couple of weeks ago and were lucky to have some nice weather.

Cherry View Milk is open daily 7am-7pm, you just pull up and park on the drive. At first we weren’t sure what to expect or where we could go and where we couldn’t go. Other families were visiting at the same time and that encouraged us to visit the cows and explore.

You purchase a milk bottle from one vending machine if you don’t have one already £1.50. You can keep this for future use and the machine has a sterilising feature.

Fresh milk: 1 litre= £1 / 2 litre= £2

The milk was delicious and certainly fresh, I think you can gather that from Rob’s tasting on our clip. We will say no more, except this, if you have a chance to go then it is a must to visit.

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We have kept out glass milk bottle so that we can make a trip whenever we pass nearby.

Find out more about Cherry View on their website here.

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LOL Bigger Surprise Unboxing

It was Sophie’s 9th Birthday last Saturday and she wanted to do her own YouTube video of her unboxing her main present- LOL Bigger Surprise.

How could we say no?

It’s not something we usually do but they had so much fun filming this together and you will be glad to know it went from over an hours worth of footage to just over 17 minutes.

Please do comment on the YouTube video as I know Sophie will be waiting to hear what everyone thinks of it.

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Jennifer

Merry Christmas from The Gilmour’s

We wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year!

We cannot wait to blog more and we have a lot in store for you all.

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