Kenilworth Christmas Light Switch-on

After school on a Friday, the Small Person has Apple Club, which is an acting club for younger children run by Playbox Theatre. Every week, we drop her at the club for an hour, and go and sit in a local cafe (because by the time we drove home, we'd only have about 15 minutes before we had to get back in the car and return to collect her!). Once we collect her, we normally head off home for a boring night in.

This last Friday, Kenilworth held their Christmas light switch-on (part one) in Warwick Road (the main shopping street through the centre of town.)

We ran into friends and chatted (resulting in impatient sulky children!) including Mr Bogert's old boss and his family with their dog Bingo (who really wanted to eat the Smaller Persons food). We drank Eggnog lattes from Starbucks and mulled wine from a stall, ate burgers and hot dogs followed by hot fresh doughnuts. Yum! The Small People had lollipops and tried their luck on various tombolas.

They also got to speak to Santa who gave them chocolates.

Both of the Small People went on a couple of rides, and the we set off for home. Another festive evening that left us sleepy and happy :)

Warwick Victorian Evening

I mentioned in the last post that we took the Small Person out for her birthday dinner after school, and afterwards moved on to Warwick for their Victorian Evening and Christmas light switch-on.

We haven't been to the Victorian Evening for a couple of years. We went every year while the Small Person was smaller, but she didn't remember it and the Smaller Person has never been.

There was a pop-up craft fayre where there were lovely baked products, jewellery, felt items, Christmas wreathes, illustrated cards, cake stands and the most wonderful wooden items. Alexandra had her face painted here, and the Smaller Person had a balloon sword (there was no way he would sit still long enough to have a painted face!).

They bought  teddy bear each from a stall. The Small Person's is called Scruff Bear and the Smaller Person's is called Oliver.

We browsed the stalls and crafts, carol singers were in the street, Morris dancers were getting ready to perform. We ran into my Mum and her partner. They are there every year without fail. Something about "Must buy pasties!".

The Small Person went on a ride while Mr Bogert went a bought a flapjack for the Smaller Person's sweet tooth.

We went and watched some of the Pantomime performers on the main stage, followed by some very enthusiastic can can dancers. It looked like a lot of fun (but they must have been freezing!).

We ran into a couple of friends and chatted with them for a short while.Next we moved on to the train ride that the Small Person had been desperate to go on, but we knew the Smaller Person would want to go too and that we'd never get him back in the pushchair, so we left until the very end! The man running the train said Mr Bogert could go on for free and keep an eye on Zack (very nice of him).

Mr Bogert was so pleased considering they had bells to ring and it went round and round and round and round.... You get the picture. He said he felt a little sick after going round that many times, but most importantly, the Small People loved it!

We picked up some drinks and just saw Santa and his entourage as we set off for the car park. Lovely evening, and very Christmassy if you ever get the chance to visit.