Today we decided to make the most of the last days of the school holidays and take a trip to Belfast to visit W5. We'd been there before a couple of years ago and enjoyed it but had heard some good reviews lately and decided to revisit. Well worth the trip (despite a few unexpected detours en-route!). The kids enjoyed the first section we visited - the Go exhibition but it was when we went to Start that they really lit up. A fantastic world created for kids, with a mini-supermarket full to the brim of toy foods, a play cafe with tables, chairs and an abundance of play food, a waterplay area (BIG hit with our mess loving 3 year old), a play house with foam pieces that could be used to "build" the walls and roof, a HUGE train set which caused a paroxism of excitement in our train and car mad 16 month old, a customiseable dolls house and dozens of other little interactive exhibits that really caught their imagination. Definitely worth a visit - something for all ages and abilities and really got the questions coming from our information addict 5 year old (not that that takes much!).
This morning we attended the monthly Open Coffee Morning in the D Hotel in Drogheda. Great to see the same faces reappearing and getting a chance to talk to new people. The only quibble we had this month was that the restaurant was so busy serving breakfasts that we couldn't get a cup of tea or coffee! Still it was another productive morning and I definitely learned something new from chatting with Denise Fay of Achieve Marketing and also some new and interesting uses for Polystyrene...so there you go ;o)
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