Ben's Blog

This year for his birthday, Ben wanted to play bowling, so we booked a bowling party at the local Tenpin bowling. He invited 7 other friends, which made 10 of them altogether and they all had a couple of games of bowling each, using two lanes. During the bowling, our party host gave them all sweets and made balloon guns and swords for them. They also had some nice food midway through the 2 hours of bowling, which they all mostly scoffed. It was mostly good fun apart from some of the boys getting rather too excited and deciding to mess around and fight a bit. Ben also managed to drop the heaviest bowling ball on his big toe (as he wasn’t concentrating properly!) so ended up crying his eyes out as it must have hurt a lot! The nail on his big toe has since gone a bit black. It was a fun couple of hours though, and all the boys that attended seemed to enjoy it all. Thanks to everyone that came and got Ben a present.

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Before the bowling, which started at 10am, Ben opened his presents at home. He was rather more restrained than normal opening his presents this year (must be getting older!), but he gradually went through and opened them all up. His main presents this year were a big Lego Star Wars ship to build, a Star Wars watch, Mr Bean Complete DVD Boxset, Mr Bean joke book (he is crazy about Mr Bean at the moment!!!), the usual clothes, and a few other little bits. He was very happy with all of it, which was good. We then had to rush around and get sorted for bowling.

During the afternoon and evening, after bowling, we had a BBQ for some family that could make it. Ben had more presents from people including Grandma, Uncle Darren, Aunty Alex, Uncle Josh and Caleb, and we all had a good scoff! The weather wasn’t ideal for a BBQ as there were heavy downpours or rain and gusts of wind, but it was good fun and everyone enjoyed it all.

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The following day, we popped down to Gramps’ house for dinner and Ben had some more presents and some lovely food at The White House pub (it was Gramps’ birthday as well). On the way home, we stopped in to Smyths Toy Store in Plymouth and Ben spent some of his birthday money and Smyths voucher that he had been given, so he was very happy.

Overall, Ben had a great birthday and we managed to cram lots in! Thanks to everyone who gave him cards, money and presents! 😉