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Off on holiday but not feeling quite as well as I'd hoped by now. My post-chemo eczema is a bit itchy and still pretty tired, but I had worried that I might have to cancel this trip altogether and I would have hated to let the kids down, so I have to take that victory.
We are back at Center Parcs, but for once didn't try to get here by 10am so we could have a full day of fun. We just made our way casually over, arriving at about 3pm. To be honest, the first day at Center Parcs is always the worst, because you've got new arrivals and people staying once they've checked out and the swimming pool is way too full of people. So missing that is another victory.
Not that I will be going swimming this week, as Catie and Phoebe are insistent that I don't risk going into such a crowded area and swim around in water full of germs and Ernie is convinced that I might swallow a toe nail (?). So when they are swimming, I will be chilling and as much as I will miss going on the slides I think we can call that a win too.
I am going to try and be involved as possible with everything apart from the swimming. When we arrived we played a game on the blackboard in the lodge where you all had to draw a squiggle and then move along one and try and turn another person's squiggle into a picture. It quickly descended into rudeness and I am not sure if I was the instigator.
In my down time I am going to try and read a book just for fun, rather than with an eye on doing a Book Club and I started reading "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" bu Gabrielle Zevin, which I've had for a while, though I didn't know much about, but had been recommended by a few people. Turns out it's about nerds creating computer games and I am very much on board already. The characters and writing are immediately engaging and it's the sort of casually brilliant poetic prose that makes me laugh at the idea that I would ever call myself a writer. Anyway I doubt Gabrielle will be on the Book Club, so I can just enjoy reading it.
