The McKenzie’s Blog…

Today after I finished work, I decided I needed to get out for a walk.  Emma was sleeping and Yuki was hoping to get some sleep before she started work in the evening.  Lisa didn’t at all want to have a sleep.

So, I decided to take her with me.  The question was where too.  I decided to take her to Wicken Fen again.  We’d gone there before (Wicken Fen…) with Lisa’s school.  That visit was good for the kids but we didn’t really get to see too much of the place.  Today when we went back we’d ended up walking about 1.25 to 1.5 miles around part of the area.  Lisa had a good time but sure was tired.  Surprisingly she didn’t fall asleep on the way back home.

There are some pics and a video from the day HERE - here are some samples.

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Lisa’s case of Chicken Pox ended about 10 days after it first showed up, and about 5 days later Emma broke out in them.  Emma was quite upset the morning Lisa woke with her spots.  Emma wanted spots too! haha she was upset that Lisa had something she didn’t. 

We kept telling Emma she’ll get spots too and she had keep looking for them and tell us as soon as she found her spots.  The day they came, she came running to tell us she’s finally got spots.  About 2 days later she stopped liking them

Emma can’t quite say “chicken pox”, it comes out sounding more like “chin chin box”.

All in all both of the kids have come through this pretty easy.  Lisa has only one spot that was on the verge of getting infected but I don’t think it really did.  It’s quite large and still visible, but it is going away slowly.   Emma so far only has one that looks like it’s going the same way as Lisa’s, but we’ll have to wait and see how it goes.

I’m glad both have gotten it now and it’ll be clear before they go back to school in early Sept.  It also means we won’t have to deal with this ever again.

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There’s not really been too much happening that needed an update to the site really.  I’d taken some vacation from Aug 2 until Aug 13 with plans to go camping in South Devon for a week.  Those plans were cancelled when Lisa came down with a case of Chicken Pox 3 days before we were scheduled to leave.   Luckly I was able to get a full refund form the camp site.   We had to cancel as 80% of the reason for going to the campsite chosen was because of the included access to an indoor/outdoor water and leisure park.  None of which Lisa would have been allowed to enjoy because of her Chicken Pox.

I ended up spending the week at home with miserable weather and unable to really do anything productive as we couldn’t take the kids anywhere that they might expose people to the infection.

Thankfully I start back to work on Wed morning, albeit from home as I’ll be working a week of “early shift” (7am-3pm), and we always only work that from home.

Hopefully something more exciting will happen soon so I can post a proper update :)  We are expect Emma to get the pox within a couple of weeks as well, that’ll be fun t do it all over again.

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Yesterday I took a walk around part of Grafham Water, however my GPS logging of the walk didn’t really pan out.  Some have considered to be a pretty great and impressive person, but even I can’t walk on water, I don’t consider that a failing though because I like to swim, and well it tough to do when you can’t get past the surface

Anyhow, I took a load of pics which you can see if you CLICK HERE.  Some samples of the pics.

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Today I took the girls to Welcome to Wild Britain - Bedfordshire’s Butterfly and Conservation Park.

Yuki was working and I needed to get out of the house today with the girls, so I decided to take the to this park.  We’d talked about it for a while but today was the day.

You can see the photos from the Flickr Gallery.

The girls had a great time.. they even did some crafts there too.. they painted some paper butterflies, they did some drawing and coloured in a small bit of paper that was then pressed into a badge with a pin in the back to put on their clothes.

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On June 26 Lisa’s pre-school, Ladybird Pre-School, had a day out at Wicken Fen.  This is a National Trust owned Nature Reserve near Cambridge.

The weather couldn’t have been better for the day.. it was a little overcast, but that kept the heat down which was good.

(click to see full sized images)

You can see the rest of the pics taken yesterday by CLICKING HERE

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I’m going to try and keep a log of my various walks and travels, as recorded by the GPS in my phone.

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