Not such a good day today...

We left home to get the bus into Ipswich but it started raining and just didn't stop until this afternoon! We decided against the treasure hunt as it was too wet so headed to Ipswich Museum instead. It's a great rainy-day option and it's free to get in! Molly had a couple of quiz sheets and made a gas mask (small charge for the mask). We wandered around at the children's pace until lunchtime and then we headed home to have our picnic indoors.

It's the first time during the holidays that we've had to change our plans so drastically but it was such a shame as we'd got a nice day planned. We will do the treasure hunt another time though.

After lunch I was really tired so while the children were next door I had a quick snooze, only to be woken by Nigel wanting to know when his dinner would be cooked. Charming!

It was actually nice to have a 'slow' day as we've been so busy and I was really tired. Molly was shattered too, especially after being awake until 11pm last night.

Tomorrow we're hoping for better weather as we're going to Woodbridge to catch the open top tour bus to Sutton Hoo with some friends and then in the evening Molly, Nigel and I are going to Snap Maltings to see the Tashi Lhunpo monks making their sand mandala followed by a performance of Tibetan music and dance. I showed Molly a video of the monks on YouTube but she was a little apprehensive because of the masks they were wearing but I'm sure she'll be fine tomorrow.

Charlie will be looked after by Nigel's mum because we don't think he'd sit through the performance. We'll be eating out but I don't know where as I've looked at some pubs local to Snape and they don't seem to have children's menus. We will probably end up having fish and chips in Aldeburgh. So much for being on a diet!