Wii Weekend

As I write this my arm is aching. It's the same for all of us this week as we have spent the better half of the weekend on the Nintendo Wii. It started Saturday afternoon, after a mile walk to the park with the dog, kids and Lisa. We spent a good two hours there coupled with the walk there and back, taking into account Daylan's little three year old legs in total was about three hours. Deciding that watching TV wasn't going to happen that afternoon, Saturday TV can be boring, we decided to dust down Lisa's neglected Wii and play Wii Sports. Cyrah my seven year is the person to beat , seriously she gets strike after strike and it's turned into a real competition to beat her! As you can imagine we played this most of the afternoon until we got bored and put on Just dance and danced, or attempted to in my case, until kids bedtime.
Sunday was much of the same but we switched it to boxing which Daylan loved and proceeded to happily beat us up and knock us down! We are paying for it now as it feels like we have had a session at the gym. Simple tasks like picking up a mug and brushes your teeth becomes hard work. It was worth it though and I will beat Cyrah's score one day!
The Wii might not be up there compared to Playstation 3 or Xbox 360, but for those fun  family or party moments and for the non gamer it surpasses the latter two by a fair mile.

The Christmas break

Christmas has been and gone and as usually I have over indulged on booze and food. More booze than food I might add. From going out on Christmas eve night. To eating Christmas dinner at Lisa's granddad's house, and drinking with said grandad in his local rugby club before dinner. Which is the first time in seven years we have eaten Christmas dinner away from the house! New Years eve was spent again at Lisa's grandad house with her sister from Norfolk, her fellow and her two kids. Good times. We arrived to be presented with presents for the kids and for us, and we exchanged our gifts. It was like a peace offering minus the dignitaries! My present was 63% proof Jamaican white rum. Yes 63% the smell alone would get you drunk!
If that wasn't enough after drinking rum and vodka, we had to go out New Years Day with the kids God parents around the pubs in my old stomping ground, Pill in Newport, South Wales. Rough as we felt we drunk through it and listened to karaoke and caught up with people from high school.
Bank holiday evening 2nd January was spent at the theatre as a last treat for the kids and what turned out to be a treat for us as well. We went to see Cinderella just me Lisa and the kids, which was enjoyable and much better than the school pantos for obvious reasons. They had a cast of stars which included Melanie Walters (Fairy Godmother) from the hilarious Gavin and Stacey series and Keiron Self (Buttons) from the hit BBC series My family. All in all in what was good Christmas spent with family and friends, and a good start to the New Year. I'm hoping for big things this year, hope you are too!