Center Parcs With My Family 3

I meant to post this a few days ago but I’ve been getting over a horrible cold. So back to Center Parcs, the third day my brother and sister treated my mum and I to a pancake house breakfast so we half and halfed a sweet and a savoury pancake.

I added to my squashed penny collection – a vital part of any trip.

And then we went to the massive swim area where we’d been going each day… and that’s where the problems started. We were sat in one of the pool areas with jets and we’d seen this family about on previous days always sort of causing issues but nothing serious like sitting in the middle of one of the water slides for ages and that kind of thing. Anyway so this one guy from this odd family started staring at me and my mum,  not in a flattering way in a really creepy almost angry way and we were just sitting chatting as a family. So after a while he asked me do you have a problem to which I said uhh… yeaaah you keep staring at me and it’s weird so please stop. I have eyes that look where they want to look he shouted…aaand then things escalated and he was shouting at all of us and security had to get involved and then his family were shouting. Anyways… he picked on the wrong family because my family are not the quiet type who let things go. They gave us free coffee and took our statements about what happened and said they’d get back to us so we swam some more.

Then we went to a coffee tasting which was really good actually and we learned more about different coffees and different places they come from.

We got a keep cup and to pick a bag of coffee.

I liked the blonde mix best, Charles liked the strongest coffee of course.

So then after our tasting we spied the dodgy family again and we were thinking oh jeez what next, we were planning on going swimming again in the afternoon so we rang to find out what happened, long story short we got a free spa afternoon with tea and cake and the dodgy family got kicked out of Center Parcs the next day because it turned out they’d already been in a fist fight with another family over a rubber ring! So dodgy family if you’re out there… thanks for the free spa I guess? It would have cost us almost £200!

Center Parcs – Day Three

We started off today with a deer spotting! I was very excited, the boyfriend less so.

Our lovely friends visited us at Center Parcs today on £30 visitor day passes, Nadine and I started off feeding the ducks chocolate chip brioche.

Then we went on a rather epic bike ride around all the villas which was really beautiful apart from at least three suicidal squirrels that took flying leaps in front of our push bikes. Luckily no one was hurt but we did scream and screech the brakes on a lot.

The boys took their clubs down to the golf course which they said was really good and then we all met up for a pub lunch at Forrester’s Inn.

Then after that we spent absolutely ages swimming in the subtropical pool, we were all really bruised from the rapids afterwards and very pruney but it was great fun. Also I’ve been expanding my squashed penny collection you’ll all be pleased to hear.

Next, we’d reserved for dinner at Huck’s the American style restaurant. It was really tasty. I had mozzarella sticks to start.

The boyfriend got bruschetta.

And Nadine & Phil shared wings which they assured me were tasty.

Next it was the main courses, we were all ridiculously full and the other three ordered a pitcher of Pepsi that was giant.

Tasty; then it was time to say goodbye to our lovely friends, our day went by so fast.

Center Parcs – Day Two

We got up pretty late but I was amused by all the birds outside out room.

And they liked us too.

Especially when I fed them, I gave them a little bit of hot cross bun, part of an apple and a bit of a chocolate croissant.

Then it was time for adventure golf, we had spectators.

I was fairly rubbish as is tradition.

The boyfriend was fairly good as is his tradition.

As you can see I lost rather spectacularly.

It was a little rainy so we looked round some of the shops.

There’s a ton of well known brands to choose from like Fat Face, Superdry, Puma, Cath Kidston, Nike, White Stuff… lots I can’t remember haha.

Lots of sports stuff and swim stuff.

There are a lot of activities to pick from if you want to. The sword fighting looked fun (I’d sword fight the s*!t out of the boyfriend) but it’s more lessons than epic battles sadly.

There’s a lot of restaurants to pick from.

And even a mini supermarket.

With most things that you’d need really, as a lot of people self cater here instead of eating out. We really only brought breakfasts with us as we don’t have a kitchen being in the hotel.

The bakery is pretty good too…

For lunch we went to Dexter’s Kitchen, a fast food type restaurant.

We both had cajun chicken burgers with sweet potato fries, garlic mayo and yogurt dip.

Mmmmmm. We had a bike ride round the lake and then the game was on (til the break of dawn!) for basketball. Obviously I lost as I am terrible but I did improve at cycling from the first day where I was clinging to my wobbling bike as I rode out of the cycle center saying “Ohhh noooo I’ve forgotten how to ride a bike!”.

Then pool, obviously I lost as I am terrible… again (sighhhhh).

Then time for dessert pancakes.

Then we went to the tropical swimming pool for hourssss, we were literally in there for about four hours, it was great. Wasn’t really hungry after our big lunch for a proper dinner. The boyfriend got a baguette and crisps and a cake but I decided on a giant doughnut.