Up and out early this morning for this girl today, in order to get to my quilting class for 9:30am. Today we learnt how to make a Snail's Trail. Ummm seems complicated. Our class of four seems to have grown to seven now and one of the new women was introducing the others and when she saw Suffolk and me she said "well I don't know them......." A bit rude (rude No1). Afterwards, Suffolk and I went for a coffee and a catch up chat.
Back home the boys were playing Disney Monopoly and they abandoned it in favour of us all going out for a day at the harbour. After a quick turnaround of which restaurant we wanted to eat at, we decided on the Fish and Chip shop close by and then arrived on to the harbour. We were here last year and didn't expect too much but it seemed that it was the 25th year and they were celebrating. They had a massive turnout and there were lots of stalls and things to do.
Army tank, moustaches and the very big police boat
The first thing that caught our eye was some Army vehicles. Tanks, trucks and jeeps and a man who asked me where I came from. ENGLAND! "Yes I could tell from your accent, whereabouts?" LEICESTERSHIRE. "Oh yes, what surprised me when I was there that a black man in a pub spoke with your accent and not a Jamaican one or Indian one like here!" OOOOOOOHHHHH (Racist comment No1). Huffle was interested in the mahoosive Police Boat, complete with little boat, BBQ, big shiny bell and three police people who didn't want to talk to Huffle, let alone answer his interesting comment which was WHY DO YOU NEED SUCH A BIG POLICE BOAT ON THE LAKE? One policeman walked away, the second said "it allows them to stay on the water longer". Then looked away as if to say please don't ask any more questions. (Rude No2) The lady police person said after Huffle said, DO YOU GET A LOT OF TROUBLE THEN ON THE LAKE?, "I guess so" and also looked away. Well that's that then. Thanks for being so bloody helpful. We now think that they just go off for a jolly and a BBQ on the water. Nice work if you can get it!
Harbour, boats, ducks and a Go Station Bear leaning on Smallest. Was this bear rude No2a or could he just not hear with his bear furry ears?
Walking along the water along to the harbour where we spotted a photographer whose work on wood was great. He looked at Smallest and said in a Chesterfield accent "hey buddy do you want a lollipop?" Of course he did and while he got one for himself and one for Small we chatted to him. He had a brother who lives in Leicester Forest East. He was a chef but did photography as a hobby. He was very interesting. We saw a load of people rushing to put on life jackets and followed them and started putting jackets on. Then we realised they were joining a DragonBoat race and we had to fill in a waiver (well of course we do, we now live in a country where everyone can sue everyone elses BUTT). Off went our jackets and off to sign a waiver which was a farce as no-one checked before we got on the boat later that we were who we said we were!!! Our time slot for the race was in an hours time (except that in harbour time that actually means at least another hour on top of that (Rude No3).
007 is a bit like Rock Paper Scissors except they hurt each other!!!!
We bought some Belgian Chocolate fudge and sat and ate it whilst watching the boats and other people. The boys got to paint on a boat, just five stars each so other people had space to paint too! Face painting was next where Smallest asked if he could have a beard. "A what, what's a beeaard?" A BEARD, A HAIRY CHIN! Says I. Giggle giggle giggle went the little silly girls doing the painting. (Bit rude No4 and a bit racist No2 not understanding my beautiful English Accent!). Finally they understood a beard and Smallest changed his mind and decided on a moustache instead because that's what Small asked for. Moustaches done, we queued up (as only we English do) for the DragonBoat. People came and queued in front of us (as only Canadians do Bit Rude No5) and we stood there for about ten minutes until we were told to go and watch the water skiing as the Race had to wait for them to finish. We watched the water skiing (or showing off as Huffle called it). Actually in the end they were quite good, if the entertainment side was a little cheesey. One of them did a bit of a jet pack style before it broke and they gave up. One of the water skiers hurt himself and Smallest asked if he was dead because he lay still for so long! (He wasn't).
The skiers (Huffle edit get a real job you bums)
Eventually we went off for the Boat Race. A quick line-up, jackets put on and oars chosen. A very quick demonstration on how to row forwards and then backwards and then we walked off to find our boat. Our boat was full of little people (that is not me being derogatory, we had Small, Smallest, a boy a bit older than Small and a couple of small girls on our boat). Huffle edit - when she says little people there were some Chinese on the boat (racist 3a) The other boat was full of strong healthy adults. Off we went in a straightish line, a very small rest and then we were off. Yes we lost and our oars were all over the place. It was really really hard work and we were desperate for water when we finished. Still, it was good and something we normally would not get to do.
Huffle through a port hole, Piggy backing Smallest and the others photo bombing, Huffle not pleased at the Big Police Boat and a Loon (that's the bird not Huffle).
We picked up tattoos, bracelets and info on how to volunteer for the PanAm games and then queued (again) for the shuttle boat to take us back to the car. Seeing as Canadians don't really do queuing we just stood near to the shuttle boat sign. A man came up to Huffle and asked if this was the line for the boat and were we at the end? Huffle said "it is but there 'ain't no queue!" The man looked a little confused with Huffle's words and accent but did in fact queue behind him. A woman came up to me and said "are you in the line for the shuttle". I said THERE IS NO LINE BUT YOU HAVE TO GET BEHIND ME. She laughed and went behind me and I said "not really you're fine". She laughed and walked in front of me and I said "no I meant you have to get behind me". She started to go behind me again and I laughed and said not really. She was European and did have a sense of humour (neither of was being rude or racist). There were in fact a couple at the front of the queue and anyone that came up to them asking where the line was said "behind us, we are at the front". (Bit rude No6) and some people did in fact stand behind them. However, when the boat turned up it seemed the queue was back to front and the rude couple at the front ended up in the middle with us at the end. None of us got on. That's funny. We walked because we wanted to get back. The others stayed and waited for the boat to come back. However, we didn't actually think about where the boat was going and was actually dropping people off at a point that would have caused our walk back to be doubled. Silly billies!
Obligatory cloudy shots
We stopped at the supermarket on the way home to stock up on ice creams as we didn't have one at the harbour because they were serving block ice cream dipped in chocolate and then dipped in nuts WHAT! By the time we got home though it was too late for ice cream so we will have to save it for tomorrow!
Huffle and the boys found me some pretend Vegetarian Turkey! NO! Despite the fact it is very very hard to be a vegetarian (or a pescatorian now I eat fish), I refuse to eat a pretend Turkey! Huffle edit - this stuff disgusts me along with their 'simulated chicken veggie burger' WHAT ?
Posted with Blogsy
No comments:
Post a Comment