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Published: April 30th 2006
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Macarthurglen mansfield!! Hi Borts,
So we awoke from our night at the travel inn, collected our belongings and headed off to a nearby maccy d's for breakfast. After satisfying our stomachs we headed off to the great Centre Parcs. The weather was looking a little grim and felt a tad bit chilly but we decided we'd make the best of it. On travelling along a newly built road to centre parcs (no more recognisable bus stop landmark Liam) Willis spotted something of great interest to her. "Look Dave" she said excitedly "there's a Mc Arthur Glen over there, oh my god whats that doing here ?". I laughed at Willis and we decided to divert and go take a look. It was quite new looking and posher than the one at Ashford. We took a quick look around. Williis was quite keen to stay a while but i was too excited to get to centre parcs, so after prizing her out of a shop which sold "Animal" clothing and making a small purchase we were on our way again.
We arrived at about 12.00 and after finding a parking space we headed off to book up some activities for that day, the
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Our Room, what a mess!! following day and the all important Aqua Sana for the Friday after deciding this would be a lovely end to our break. If anyone goes to center parcs the Aqua sana world of spa experience is a must do. You get three hours of pure indulgence, take it from us it's worth every penny.
So as we had a couple of hours to kill before we could get into our villa we booked up to play mini tennis. I managed to beat Willis six games to two, but i have to say Willis wasnt bad with most games going back and forth to duece, advantage etc. After this we headed off to hire our mountain bikes. We decide to hire rather than take our own due to the trip to Alton towers before hand. We collected our Dawes mountain bikes, mine in silver Willis's in black and after both having the seats ajusted, mine so i didnt get cut in half and Willis's so that she could reach the pedals we sped off. We headed to our villa and went for a look around it. It was very nice as all the comfort villas are being refurbished and ours
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Dave @ Lucianno's!! had been recently done.
I headed off to get the car and we unloaded all our belongings and made ourselves at home. Our villa was not as posh as the executive apartment that we had stayed in when we went with Liam & Bethan but it was still nice. So now we were settled in we decided it was time to head off to the subtropical paradise. This also has been re-vamped with added extras including a lane swimming pool in a seperate area along with a spa bubble pool, an extra childrens pool area ( which used to be one of our hiding places for man hunt) and a new slide ride calles the grand cascade which you sit in a round raft( up to four people) and zoom off down a flume. This was pretty cool especially when i kept making it go right up the side so that Willis got scared that we'd fall out.
We of course went in the usuall out door pool which wasnt as warm as it is in November but was still o.k and went down the ever famous wild water rapids and Willis managed to not drown this time.
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Happy Gillmore!! That night we decided to go to Lucianos for dinner. I had lasagna and Willis had folded pizza type thing, followed by cheese cake for me and sorbet for the Willis. Only one complaint we had was the very annoying child who kept leaning over and looking at us when we were eating, then she kept saying something so i asked her what she said and she replied that she wasnt talking to me. Well bugger off then i said under my breath.
Tuesday arrived and a busy day planned was in store for us. First stop, a cycle over to the country club for the driving range. Willis and i collected our bucket of balls each and we were off. Willis took many attempts to hit the ball but soon got the hang of it and started to whack them all over the place. I of course was a natural, hitting some good distances and even into the net. After about an hour of fun & Willis complainig that her arm was aching after that, we decided on a nice bike ride around the parc. We didnt venture to far as it was almost time for Archery!!!!!. Off
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Mrs Happy Gillmore!! we went again, destination archery field.
With a different instructor than last time we came, Len took us through the procedures. Willis as ever still had to ask me questions after because she doesnt listen to instructions very well. So after running through it with Willis again we started to shoot some arrows. It was wicked. Len came alondg and helped Willis. He discoverd where she was going wrong, she was shutting the wrong eye when aiming, cosequently making her miss the target. " you need to shut your left eye" he explained to her. But Willis not knowing her left from right kept shutting the right one. Eventually she grasped it and started to hit the target along with her first yellow. I found it much better this time too and was hitting some good scores including quite a few yellows.
After this we headed to the pancake house for lunch much to the delight of Willis and had a little rest before our game of badmington. Again Willis was defeated as i won two games to one but again it was a close match. Badmington was followed by a game of pool, dinner and then a
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Where's Wally, well squirrel?? night swim. Willis was neadless to say pretty tired by then and we went to bed.
Bored yet? if yes then we had a great time and went home on Friday. The end. If you want to hear what else we did on holiday then tune into the next blog Centre parcs pt 2
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Kangaroo Jack...
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i am outraged.....
no trip to the raddle-outrageous. how will they ever forgive us??? just messin. did the centre parcs pool still look good enough for a bit of hide and seek??? archery looked great to. pancakes looked scrummy too...esp daves. watch the film ' shes the man' it has the best line ever about 5 mins from the end when they are stood in the football pitch centre circle. the headmaster(bald) comes out with it!!!!u have to see it.....