WALL•E and the sea

The pace of life is quite a bit slower here in Clearwater. Instead of getting up early in the morning and rushing to a theme park, we've been waking up really late and then taking our time to decide what to do for the day.

On Saturday morning we went to the restaurant in the hotel for their buffet breakfast which daddy has been looking forward to for the last three years. Max and I were quite happy with a bowl of Fruit Loops - it's really sad they don't sell those in England - but daddy had a hard time choosing between the bacon, sausages, breakfast potatoes, eggs, toast, bagels, cereal, fruit, and more, so he decided not to choose and just have a bit of everything.

We all fancied a day of not getting wet, so we decided the best thing to do was go and see WALL•E, the new Pixar film which has only just come out. We went to the mall in Tampa, and bought our tickets, but the film didn't start for 45 minutes, so we obviously had to do a bit of shopping first. They had a sale on in mummy's favourite kids clothing shop, The Children's Place, so we now have our entire summer and autumn wardrobes sorted.

Then we went to see the film, and we all thought it was great. Daddy said it was the best kids film he's seen in years, and we're going to go and see it again when it comes out in England. We now have to be good boys for the whole rest of the holiday if we want to get any WALL•E toys. We're not doing a very good job so far!

After the film, we had to go and buy a suitcase so that we can get all our shopping home. And then we went to a restaurant for my favourite kind of food, pizza.

Sunday was a proper seaside day. For breakfast we had Cinnabon cinnamon rolls, which we'd bought in the mall the day before. Then we packed up all our stuff and walked over to the beach. Even though it looks like it's only over the road, it's actually a very long walk and we were very hot by the time we got there, so we got straight in the water to cool down. I'm starting to like the seaside more than I used to, and I spent a lot of time swimming in the sea and bobbing in the waves, although it was horrible when the water splashed in my mouth because it was so salty. Daddy blew up our new lilo and big rubber ring that looks like a tyre, and we also played in the sand and built sandcastles - well daddy built them and Max and I knocked them down again.

After our long walk back to the hotel we were so hot again that we had to get in the pool. We also thought it would be a good idea to have an ice cream to help us to cool down. Max seemed to think that the best way to do this was to spread the ice cream all over his body.

In the evening we went to the pier for the sunset festival, where Max and I played in the playground, and went on the bouncy castle. There was also an enormous bouncy slide shaped like a shark, which was great fun. Max climbed up to the top and then decided he was too scared to come down, so daddy had to go up and rescue him. All this American food must have finally got too much for daddy, because he got a bad tummy ache and we had to go back to the hotel. We then sat up and watched a really great film on the Disney channel, while daddy kept muttering about what rubbish it was, until it was really late and well past our bed time.