Knit Twits

Small came running into our bedroom at 6:30am this morning shouting "it's 7:30, get up, get up, it's 7:30". NO IT'S NOT YOU IDIOT says his Father, IT'S ONLY 6:30am NOW GO BACK TO BED AND SHUT THE DOOR!

It had snowed a bit during the night. The kind of snow that you can throw at your brother! Once all the boys had gone off for the day, Moo and I sat and had breakfast, read the news and knitted for most of the morning whilst drinking coffee. Lovely. Moo carried on with her Monkey hat and I made two more hairbands.

At lunchtime we went out for a coffee and a toasted bagel at the 'twins cafe' in town and then went on and did some food shopping.

Back home we made a Roasted Red Pepper Soup, a many seeded bread and an Apple Crumble.

We sat and knitted some more and finished off watching Call the Midwife (we watched most of it last night). The boys came home and did homework, reading, snacking, table tennis and then played on various gadgets.

Huffle came home and we all had soup and bread before Moo, Small and I donned our warmest clothes possible and headed out towards Toronto to the Observatory for Small's Cub trip (they are doing their Astronomy badge). Small sat in the back playing on the IPad until we needed him for directions. Our sat nav performed well on the way there and got us to the correct place. It was very very cold with temperatures of -16 (windchill of -24*). When we arrived we stood in a cold hall and waited for the rest to appear. Then we listened to a lady tell us a little about the place, wait for people to go to the loo and then we made our way outside, up a slippery hill, up some icy steps into the Observatory. It was an amazing buildng but because it was so dark I couldn't get a good photo. Once inside (which was colder than outside) we learnt that the building's interior was made of the same material as an English Ship with metal and rivets. We were led up some stairs in the dark to where Canada's largest telescop was held. The roof was opened and we could see the clear night sky. While they re-aligned the telescope, we listened to the lady talking about the stars and planets.

Eventually we got to see the telescope again and this time we climbed the big ladder up to the eye piece to view Jupiter and it's two moons (there was another one too apparantly that passed over Jupiter but all I could see was a big blurry white thing and two smaller blurry things). I climbed up with Small so he told me what to look for. I expected it to be much clearer as it was such a big telescope.

We walked to the the other building and sat in a lovely warm room with cushions to listen to a presentation by a volunteer who was very 'excited about some new moons'. I learnt a bit about moons and planets and stars and Small enjoyed it. Moo was a little disapointed by the view in the telescope but at least she can go home and say she has looked through the largest telescope in Canada.

We left just before 9pm, this time the sat nav did not behave so we ignored her and found our own way home. A cup of hot tea was waiting for us and a tray of chocolate chip cookies made by Smallest at Beavers.

Some of the leaders tonight were absolutely annoying. Prattling on about nothing just so they could be heard, wanting to be the loudest voice in the room (The main leader isn't like this at all but then he is English, not that I'm biased at all). Moo called one of them a prat (not quite to his face) and I had to agree with her. He was coughing all over the place and never put his hand over his mouth once - And we let him 'lead' our children!!!!!

I have asked the Cubs leader for my Astronomy badge and he said I could have one but I need to write an essay. Apparantly the Observatory is open to anyone in Summer (definately a bit warmer), maybe we will take Huffle and Smallest there then.

 

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