Soft Play and Buses

This entry is a bit of a cheat but I felt that it was worthy of a blog post.

I’m not a big fan of soft play centres.  In fact I find them a living hell.  They’re usually noisy, hot and just unbearable.  However, on Friday we visited Riverside Hub in Northampton and it definitely changed my opinion.

We went early on a Friday morning and it was empty.  Now, I’m well aware that had we gone at a weekend or in the school holidays it would’ve been a lot busier.  Also, as the UK was experiencing a heatwave presumably most people had gone to the park instead.

This was Chloe’s first ever visit to a soft play centre (well technically that’s not true as she attends Sing and Sign at on but she never goes to the actual soft play bit).  Riverside Hub requires you to have a card which has all your child’s details on.  We already had one of these for Matthew so it was easy to just include Chloe onto our card.  it cost £3.50 for each adult and £2 for Chloe.  There are a few different areas for babies and toddlers including sensory rooms with water shoots and lights and fish (Chloe loved the fish).  She also loved sitting in the ball pool and of course eating the balls.

It was really nice to have areas where she could just crawl around and explore, obviously made a lot easier because of how quiet it was.

We spent around an hour and a half there (you can play for two and a half hours) and Chloe had a great time.  Even in the Toddlers village, she was able to go down the slide with Daddy and spent a lot of time in the walker, something which really helped when we got home, as she

hadn’t liked being in her own.

The Hub hold classes throughout the week for little ones which are included in the entry price so I may take her back to some of those, although I must admit, if you don’t drive, it is not the easiest place to get to from where I live.

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Buses

On Sunday we went to the Bus Rally at Wellingborough Museum.  This wasn’t particularly for the children’s benefit but more mine to get information for my dissertation.  However, we still managed to get a photo of Chloe with an old bus like Grandad used to drive.   Just in case people were wonder, my dissertation is basically a social history of bus services in Northamptonshire during 1920 -1950.  I'm always looking for information so if you think you might have anything useful please let me know. 


Bye for now

Kathrina & Chloe