Back in June myself and Bertie went away for a couple of days with a very good friend Caroline and her daughter. We are members of Tumble Tots and they were having a big Tumble Tot birthday celebration At Alton Towers. There’s also a new part to Alton Towers called CBeebies Land. The children were very excited about this, especially Caroline’s daughter as she’s a little older and has watched more CBeebies than the dude, at the time he was mostly in to Disney Channel.
Sunday morning I left early to collect Caroline and her girly, we were all super excited to get on the road, not before long and the children were falling asleep after a little sing along to the Frozen soundtrack. We stopped a few times and I took a few wrong turns and we ended up arriving a few hours later than we would have liked.
Once checked in, we headed straight to the park on the train that took us right to the entrance. Our first stop was CBeebies Land, and we went on one of the CBeebies Bugs for a tree top tour, they absolutely loved it. After we got off the ride, we started seeing people wondering around with Tumble Tot bags, so we went in search for the building where the Tumble Tot party was being held. However when we got there it was completely EMPTY, we asked for some help and know body knew anything about the event. We decided to go back to the hotel and check again in the morning in time for the morning show.
We were staying in the Splash Landings hotel and as the children love swimming so much we decided to have a quick swim and play after dinner. The children absolutely loved the pool, the slide mostly, We should have spent that whole day there, it was so much fun, I wish we could have taken a camera in too!!
They went to bed after a nice warm bubble bath and woke up bright and early for breakfast. We got into the park nice and early, so I thought I would take the opportunity to go on a fast ride myself and we trecked all the way over to Oblivion, it was great, I loved it.
We headed back towards the building for Tumble Tots but again it was completely empty, again we asked for help, again he had know idea what we were talking about. He called over to the main office and they confirmed that the shows should be where we were but nothing was there. We decided to go in to CBeebies Land again and went on the Postman Pat Van ride, again they loved it – they both got to sit in the front and “drive”.
Through out the day we went on various rides, had a picnic lunch on the grass in the sunshine. We kept checking in at the Tumble Tot building at the right times on the leaflet I was given back in our class In Henley – on – Thames but nothing. Yet we saw lots of people with Tumble Tot bags. I am quite disappointed that we missed out when the reason we booked to go away was solely because of the Tumble Tot event. Luckily the children didn’t really miss anything as we kept them busy with other things in the Park.
It was getting quite late and we were all feeling quite tired so we headed back to the car, changed the children into their pj’s and prepared their milkies and last snacks. Not before long they were both asleep.
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