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In the realm of quite surprises, the variety and cost of things to do with children is better than we knew in the states. Now, we only lived with children under the age of two, so our experience was not exhaustive. Britain has many indoor children play arenas in our area. People described them to us as "Chuck E. Cheese" places, but anything could be further from the fact. They are not the substandard food & money pits like Chuck's place.

Recently we went to "The Wacky Warehouse", which is a play area attached to a kid friendly pub named "The Squinting Cat". They had two-for-one meals and Liam loved jumping in the ball pits, bouncing off of walls, and sliding down slides. The food was good Pub food and served the best steak that we have encountered in the country. So it was a win all around for the Schermer Family.

Of course, when Aine was ready to leave, she let everyone know. She grabbed Liam's shoes and preceded to tell him that it was time to go. Of course, Liam having so much fun, did not listen to his half-sized sister no matter how insistent she was.

This was the second "soft play structure" that Liam has encountered in as many months. He is growing out of his shyness, bounding joyfully through the balls minutes after arriving. Last time it took him more like 20 minutes to warm up to the idea.

Lessoned learned, there are some great things to do with kids in Britain and the children are still jockeying for the third spot in the pecking order (although they may argue its for the second spot).