Sunday Funday

The Gifford's know how to make good use of a Sunday.  Have car.. will drive..

Today, we went to Fairytale Park about an hour drive taking dirt roads from Melbourne.  Have you ever seen Shrek, the part with the freaky theme park and the old animatronic figures moving around to out of tune carnival music?  Yep, pretty much that.

Don't remember this fairy tale!

Aladdin

Camelot

Scariest one - Jack in the beanstalk.  Yikes

They had a really cool playground at the end of the displays in which the kids (and Devon) enjoyed immensely.

Climbing down the castle tower

Isla's in shackles!

After Fairytale park, we decided to go back to pick more strawberries and apples.  Last weekend to do that here in Melbourne and we went through our first kilo of strawberries in less than 24 hours!  

Ian the apple picking king

So much fun

After apple picking we decided to continue on with our day.  Had dinner - Isla had lasagna and declared "Mommy, this is junk - from now on I just want to eat broccoli and cauliflower.  Please order that for me right now."  I'm sure she really enjoyed it anyway and I'm not sure that the restaurant we went to had veggies. :)  She ate my salad and was happy.

After dinner we stopped at a fun playground where Devon enjoyed himself and was able to act his age - me too actually, gosh it's fun pretending to be a kid!    We kicked the soccer ball around, spun until we were dizzy and hung like monkeys from bars.

Round and round we go

Do I need to explain this one?

Whenever we head back into Melbourne after an outing, we always pass a town that is known for 'harness racing'.  What is 'harness racing' you ask?  Let me tell you.  It is a type of horse race that pulls a 2 wheeled cart called a skully, in which the rider sits and gently taps the horse to urge it to go faster.  Who's in for another adventure?  So glad we checked it out!

Getting ready for the race to start

And they are off!  Blurry and fast!

 Isla and I really liked the horse that was all decked out in orange so we cheered for that one.  Too bad I didn't bet on it because it came in second and we would have won $450!

Here's a better picture of what they look like - taken from the interwebs.

 What a fantastic Sunday!

Day 4 of healthy eating complete!  So, we may have cheated a little at the restaurant today, but it's hard to control EVERYTHING that goes into our kid's bodies.  We brought a picnic lunch to the Fairytale land which was eaten by everyone and no complaints.  Still no crackers, fruit snacks and teddies!

And this is my new recipe of the day that will be for snack time tomorrow.

These are macerated organic apricots mixed with sesame seeds and rolled in coconut.  And it's nut free so we can take them to the gym.  Perfect!  (I just caught Devon sneaking a mouth full so hopefully they make it until tomorrow)

That's it for today!  Super tired over here and will for sure sleep soundly tonight... unless I dream of animatronic fairytale characters.  Creepy.