Adventure Island & Batman Vs Superman

So yesterday I took another day off of work to spend some quality family time with the kids during the Easter half term. The weather was absolutely beautiful and we decided to take a day out at Adventure Island in Southend-On-Sea. A couple of major milestones were achieved today as Brandon is now over 1.2m and could subsequently be upgraded to blue band for the first time ever. This not only meant he could go on all the ride unaccompanied but also that he could go on all the bigger rides now. It made the day so much easier knowing both the boys could go on the same rides which then left me and Tina to alternate between taking Holly on the smaller toddle rides.

The other major milestone achieved was that Brandon had his first experience on the awesome Rage. He was a bit nervous the first time and asked me to go on with him (honestly the things I do as a Dad to keep my kids happy!). Anyway he absolutely loved the thrill of the drop, the loop, the twist and the camel back and ended up going on Rage about 3 or 4 times over the course of the day. So Brandon has passed his scary ride initiation with flying colours and is a little Rage machine.

Holly was a little trooper and stayed awake all day long. She walked everywhere around the park and went on many, many rides. Probably her favourites where the snake slide (which she went on about 3-times with me) and the Whip which she went on with Tina and giggled away every time the carriage whipped around the U-bend track.

We all had a great day and was absolutely knackered by the time we got home. To chill out in the evening myself and Joshua were booked in to Basildon Empire to watch “Batman Vs Superman”. We decided not to take Brandon as we had heard it was a bit of a dark film with a few scary/jumpy moments and given that he suffers with bad dreams we decided it was best that me and Josh check it out first and then decide whether we think he should watch it. This turned out to be a really wise decision as even Joshua was turning away in places. So instead of Superman, Tina is going to take Brandon to see Zootopia tonight instead.

 

Holly's first ride of the day was on the big wheel overlooking the sea.

A great view of the park from up the top of the wheel, shouting down at Josh and Brandon on the Zumba wheel thing.

Holly walked around Adventure Island all day long and did very well.

Lovely picture of my two ladies.

Joshua and Brandon having their first ride on Scorpion.

Holly takes to the seas in a viking ship.

So nice to see the boys enjoying the rides together. Here they are on Vortex.

Holly and Tina on a dinosaur train ride.

Joshua and Brandon racing down the water slides.

Not quite enough body weight for Brandon to carry him to the end.

Me sitting with Holly on the Kiddie Coaster.

Great piccy of our 3 little babies having a lovely family day out.

As Brandon is over 1.2m he got to ride the giant turtle swings for the first time.

Holly and Tina in the little jungle train.

Holly playing in the ballpit of the softplay area.

Its magic has Holly makes some balls levitate.



Joshua and Holly on a little toddler slide.

Holly chuckling away on her favourite ride the whip.

Family picture of all 5 Kings at Adventure Island.

Joshua and Holly ride the Dumbo pink elephant ride.

Brandon with a rather large bucket of candy floss and sporting a little candy floss goaty beard.

Brandon the fragon slayer.

Joshua and Brandon riding the surfer dude.

 

Brandon all strapped in a ready to lose his Rage virginity.

What goes up must come down as Brandon enjoys the drop off on Rage.

 

Then up and over in to a 360 degree loop.

My boys on the dragon coaster.

 

To end our great day out me and Joshua head off to watch Batman Vs Superman.