Gran Day with Annika

Ready for the oven

On Saturday my daughter, Christina headed up to Noosa North Shore to spend the day with her sister-in-law and her girlfriends, who were up there having a 'girls weekend', while my son, Ross stayed home with their girls.  Christina had a lovely beach day, lying in the sun, having a dip in the sea and generally relaxing. I took Annika (4 yrs old) home with me for the day, leaving Ross with little Tamara. Naughty Gran that I am, I put on Finding Nemo for Annika to watch while I made muffin quiches for Christina and my breakfast tomorrow morning. Once they were in the oven I watched it with her, well I sat beside her reading a book, while she watched it.

Then we headed off to the local swimming pools as the temperatures were in the 30's and after TV, it was time to be outside and active.  Annika has been having swimming lessons since she was a baby, and loves the water. She jumps right in to the deep end and makes me "race" her across the pool. Unfortunately we didn't have her goggles with us, so her eyes got really sore. She found a pair of "fins" beside the pool and insisted on putting them on - they were not made for little people, but would she listen to Gran, of course not. The pool is a tepid temperature, so rather enjoyable in the heat of the day.






After our swim it was off to a cafe for a "chocolate milkshake and hot chips please Gran".  I love the way this cafe does "special" milkshakes for kids, in little glass milk bottles with the sprinkles around the top, which of course, had to be licked off.  I think I ate more of the hot chips than she did - oops.

As a special treat, she got to watch Find Dory when we got home in the fond hope that she would drop off and have a sleep, but not such luck. However, Gran did snooze on the sofa, having seen this and Finding Nemo many times.

Once I had dropped her home, and Christina arrived home, it was an easy tea for us and then into preparing for our big walk on Sunday.  Breakfast smoothie with mango, blueberries, rolled oats, protein powder and almond milk to drink on our way down to the Gold Coast, chicken salad wraps for after the walk, muffin quiches to eat before the walk. 600ml of electrolytes each to put on our carry belts along with our snacks.

Nuts, craisins and chocolate, beef jerky and protein bites (in the freezer) all bagged,  pain killers and small first aid kit, just in case. 3l water packs in the fridge chilling. Plus bottles of water in the freezer to act as Ice packs in the Esky and for drinking after and another 2l of electrolytes in the fridge to take.

Then it as early to bed, ready for an early start Sunday.

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