When we visited with friends last week, Evan and Autumn found that there were a number of things they wanted to do, but our friends weren't particulalry interested. So I promsied we would have a choice session at Chatsworth, where they could choose to do what they wanted and I woudln't hurry them on to another thing. Evan really wanted to watch the globe fountain and play in the squirrel nutkin tree. On Tuesday, that is exactly what we did, after a quick stint in the playground and farmyard, we headed to the gardens and we spent 2 hours at the squirrel nutkin tree whilst I ate lunch and did some craft. Then we moved on to the maze and then rock garden. The kids had a wonderful time plopping little rocks into the pond, watching as the ripples got larger. Finally we went to the globe fountain. No paddling today, as the cascade was turned off whilst they cleaned it out.
At the globe fountain we decided to time the different intervals of the sequence of movements it made. We watched for 20 minutes, and with the cycle being about 4 minutes long we had a few different sets of timings to work from. We got to the point where we were able to countdown to each of the next things in the process.
A beautiful relaxed day. It made a nice change to let the children set the full agenda rather than compromising. I think we need to do that more often. Thank you Chatsworth, once again, for making our week pretty amazing.
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