On Saturday Tom went to University for the day - he had been selected to go to Space School which is run by the University of St Andrews and involves learning about Physics, Astronomy, Geosciences, Psychology, Chemistry etc over a selection of 6 Saturdays between now and June. It then culminates in a 3 day event in June (missing school) with guest speakers and actual astronauts from NASA coming over to talk to the children. How fantastic is that? Naturally Tom is 'over the moon' about the whole thing and to make it even better for him, Gregg (his BFF!) got selected from his school to go too.
So while Tom was at space school, mum & dad arrived (it was my mum's birthday on the 11th) and Nick took dad for a round of golf and Lily, mum & I went to visit Cambo Estates for a walk
among the snowdrops - mum's favourite flower and Cambo Estate is famous for its display in spring. www.camboestates.com It is a beautiful garden with some lovely sculptures and
pigs!
We ran out of time to walk through the woods down to the beach but we had fun all the same, Lily's friend Cade came along with us too.
After that I dropped them all off at home, had a quick treasure hunt with Cade & Lily and then went off to pick up Tom & Gregg. They had had a fabulous time and are looking forward to the next one in a couple of weeks time. I dropped the boys off at Greg's and then it was back home to hunt for dinosaurs in the garden. I managed to find all but 2 of them and Cade & Lily couldn't remember where they had put them so we may or may not stumble across them at some point in the future. All too soon it was 5pm so I took Cade home and collected Tom and then it was home for the night and a nice glass of wine and meal with mum & dad. Salmon for dinner and leftover M&S pud. Yum.
Hi Sarah You can tell Tom that I am going to visit NASA in a couple of weeks and see where they keep all the Moon rocks (In a big vault with a MASSIVE door). When I come up I'll try and remember to bring a meteorite or two with me!
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