{"id":15095,"date":"2014-07-16T21:31:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T20:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15095"},"modified":"2014-07-28T11:53:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T10:53:22","slug":"catrin-and-i-go-on-an-adventure-to-legoland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15095","title":{"rendered":"Catrin and I go on an adventure to Legoland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even in the three weeks since I had last seen Catrin, she seemed to have grown up and she was still more fluent.<\/p>\n

For our whole day together (her nursery was closed), I decided to go on our biggest adventure together and took her to Legoland <\/a>in Windsor. This was something of a trial run to see if I could manage the logistics and if she would like the place. The travel went fine and she enjoyed it, but I think that she’s still a bit young to get the most out of it, so we’ll leave another visit for a while.<\/p>\n

Catrin went on all sorts of rides and loved the pirate show, but her most enjoyable encounter seemed to be with a life-sized Lego version of a cowboy. I put on an American voice and pretended that he was taking to her and she adored that.<\/p>\n

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\nGranddad and Catrin on a big wheel<\/center>
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\nCatrin makes a new friend
\n(with granddad’s voice)<\/center>
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\nCatrin with her car for Formula One<\/center><\/p>\n

It was a really hot day and quite busy, so Catrin did very well coping with the heat and crowds.<\/p>\n

I wear a pedometer to encourage me to to walk the recommended 10,000 steps a day. Usually I only manage around 5,000-6,000, but today I went over 20,000!<\/p>\n

Don’t worry – Catrin didn’t do 20,000 steps. A lot of my walking was collecting her from her parents and returning her and a fair bit of my walking in Legoland was with Catrin on my shoulders. Boy, granddad needs a rest now …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regular visitors to this blog will know that I try to see my granddaughter Catrin – now three and a half – once each week. However, I was not needed in the past couple of weeks, so I went three weeks without seeing her and then this week I am childminding one evening, looking after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15095"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15192,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095\/revisions\/15192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}