what am i going to do with them????????????????

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heres my dilemma,dh goes away for training on 18th april.i dont drive,but my friend from hull is coming for the week and dh is leaving our people carrier for her to drive (hes far too trusting,she batters the alloys!!)anyway,hes away all that week,so what can i do with my 5 sproggies?going to take advantage of the fact that ive got someone with a car,so what can i do,where can we go!weve planned to go to bodellwyddan castle and chester zoo,but its going to get expensive!any ideas please?!!!

where do you live?

lots of walks in the country. Trip to the beach.

we live north wales,criccieth,so beach and country walks are the norm!need something abit different for them!

Is Bodelwyddan National Trust? Some NT places do Easter Egg hunts in April.

Can you go for a trip on a boat somewhere?

Maybe u could go on a nature walk but collect things along the way to make a collage with when u get back?

Theres always ur local netmums site for places to go in ur area

nah - just lots of fun walks - doesn't have to be different to be fun (at least not when you are a kid !)

Isn't there a castle at Cricieth ?

Have you looked at the tourist information website for Criccieth - quite a lot on there and I bet you haven't done all the local things (you never go to the places you live near !)

when we first moved here,we did just about everything!my parents were on the tourist board commitee and did the criccieth brochures of things to do around here!there is a castle,but the kids school is right next to it and they go up there quite often.also they go on nature walks on teh beach and near local rivers/streams.
ive asked them what they want to do,got 2 dunnos,1 not bothered im off to my mates house,and 1 'i want to go to space mummy' (ds2 is obsessed with space at teh mo!)
so im still no further on with what to do.cant wait to go to bodellwyddan castle,im doing a parapsychology course at the mo and its supposed to be very haunted!(going purely for my own selfish reasons!but at least they'll get a day out!)

i know its a long way to go (proberly a two hour drive for you) but there is the national space centre in leicester, it is brilliant for a day out and the kids will love it!!!

dont mind the driving time,thats a great idea,is there a website where i acn get directions and opening times from?

i think the web site is www.nssc.co.uk -

have fun!!!

How about the Slate Mine, near Snowdon.
www.llechwedd-slate-caverns.co.uk/

Further away is Big Pit - It's FREE
www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/bigpit/
Note: There are safety restrictions, Visitors MUST be over 1m to go underground.

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