BETTER THAN LEGOLAND

After yesterday's adventure and grand finale of waiting an hour and a half to get out of the freaking parking lot it wouldn't have taken much to make today a better day. Don't take me wrong, we had a great time with the kids, who were fantastic but these Lego folks need to stop building dragons and castles out of little plastic blocks and figure out a better way to empty their park.
The kids fell asleep on their feet last night and slept till 7:40 this morning when Abby came in to tell us her arm was asleep. I suggested that the rest of her body should do like her arm and sleep till 10 but that didn't work. Two minutes later Roman appeared at the door to our bedroom, still half asleep, but worried that he would miss something and his sister would get something that he didn't get. We settled the 2 of them in their parents bed with a movie video and I went down to create a GRANDMA BREAKFAST. Pancakes and waffles are always more interesting when grandma creates them with jelly and bananas. From there we went to mass and then off to Mac Donalds for lunch. That didn't work because all the people that were at Legoland yesterday were now in Windsor and there was not a parking spot to be had in a 12 mile radius of the center of town. The weather here has been unbelievable and has broken all sorts of records for this time of the year. We finally made our way out of town and over to the leisure center on the out skirts of Windsor. The leisure center is one of the best ideas I have seen here in England. Right on the banks of the Thames sits a huge complex of gyms, basket ball courts, a huge lap pool and water park . . . all in side. The water park area contains 2 huge twisty slides that are at least 3 stories high. There is a wave pool, lazy river, baby slide area and all sorts of fountains and spouts shooting water. There are changing rooms, bathrooms and even a PEOPLE DRYER that you stand in and it blow dries your entire body. I have NEVER seen anything like this in the states. The parking at the leisure center was almost as bad as in town but we lucked out and got a great spot. We had lunch at the snack bar and then spent 2 great hours playing in the water. Standing in the pool for 2 hours helped all the blisters on my toes to dissolve so now I am ready to start off on the next leg of our adventure.
Tomorrow morning Ann, Ger and I will start off in our beauty of a car, (a 2012 Black Vauxhall ) and we will head to Bath and then North. I have no idea what we will encounter as far as internet service so if you don't hear from us for a while it is because we are in the wilds of England and Scotland.
Until the next internet connection . . .  Pip Pip !