Cartoon Network Summer Fun Day

So on Sunday after my fun run, we were ready to have a fun and relaxing day, we stayed at WPCC for an hour or 2 watching the half marathon runner come in and then Quinn found some school friends who happen to live across the road, so went to play with them.

We collected him again at around lunch time and decided to go for a drive and to eat out, instead of going home. We weren't sure where to go, and were driving fairly aimlessly when we drove past Bishops - I was pretty much pointing out the route of the run and this point. There seemed to be a fete, or carnival happening there, and we decided to checking it out, because it looked like fun...

So we went in and couldn't really see what the event was for, other than that there was Cartoon Network branding everywhere. There was no access control so we took a wonder around, and saw some amazing jumping castles. One HUGE one was in the shape of a space shuttle with a big slide coming out the back. There did not seem to be a charge for using it, so the kids started using it, and had a blast (no pun intended!).

After a while someone came past and handed us cold drinks. We gratefully accepted - it was getting pretty hot by now. Richard decided to go see what the event was all about. He came back saying 'the good news is everything is free, the bad news is it's an invite only event'. Realising we had gate crashed a party, we dicided to let the kids finish on the space shuttle and then would move on.

On the way past the marquee we bumped into some friend we hadn't seen for ages. Turns out it was a DSTV end of year event for DSTV installer companies and their families etc. They were just getting lunch and invited us to stay. So we did. The lunch was a catered affair and was really nice. I had a chicken kebab with dried apricots; a vegetable bake with butternut, aubergine, leek and spinach; and a rocket, blue cheese and walnut salad. All were delicious. We were offered wine and beer etc as well. After lunch dessert was delicious fruit kebabs (kiwi, pine apple, strawberry, apple, and orange) with white and dark chocolate drizzled over them. YUM.

It was the perfect meal and exactly what I felt like.
The kids were in their element and were given mini hamburgers, fizzy drink, candy floss, pop corn and flakey ice creams. I think my children though they had died and gone to heaven actually...

They played mostly on the space shuttle, but also a bit on the UFO jumping castle. They also spent a lot of time looking at and interacting with the cartoon network characters who were walking arounfd, these included Dexter, and his sister Dee Dee. Yogi Bear, Scooby Doo, Johnny Bravo etc.

There were also some races (sack, potato, water transporting etc) for older children to take part in, and face painting, splash pools, colouring in, dancing etc too. The funniest thing was the sumo wrestling, where kids dressed up in sumo 'fat-suits' and had to wrestle each other. Hilarious to watch!

After a day of amazing fun and too much sun we went home at 4:30pm. All of us fell asleep for a few hours - Quinn woke up at 6:30am on Monday!

It is probably one of the most fun events we have ever attended as a family... and it didn't cost us a cent...

We have to figure out how to get invited next year ;)