En Voyage - Issue #8
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LEFT-RIGHT LEGO DISCOVERY CENTRE<br />
VIEW FROM HOTEL FOOTBALL MANCHESTER<br />
DINOSAURS IN THE WILD<br />
SEA LIFE MANCHESTER<br />
The whole shop and experience<br />
plays to youngsters' imaginations<br />
with beautiful finishing touches<br />
such as birth certificates and<br />
cardboard boxes that double<br />
up as a bear house that can be<br />
coloured in. And I can confirm<br />
that the boxes fit in a suitcase.<br />
There’s no way to sugar-coat<br />
it, the food hall in the Trafford<br />
Centre is manic at the best of<br />
times let alone at half term. The<br />
best option that we could see was<br />
to divide and conquer – I found a<br />
table with the children whilst Joel<br />
went hunter-gatherer and braved<br />
the queues at not just one, but<br />
two different fast food outlets.<br />
Post pit-stop we spent the<br />
afternoon in SEA LIFE Manchester<br />
which again is part of the Intu<br />
Trafford Centre. Poppy and<br />
Reuben enjoyed completing their<br />
Dive Log Books gathering a stamp<br />
at each of the nine dive stations.<br />
It’s definitely smaller than some<br />
of the other SEA LIFE centres we’ve<br />
been to but it’s got everything<br />
you’d want from an aquarium.<br />
The sharks, turtles and rays are<br />
always the favourites with our two<br />
and Manchester didn’t disappoint.<br />
Maxed out on fun and new<br />
information and thoroughly wiped<br />
out from the excitement, both the<br />
kids slept all the way to the airport.<br />
It was all going so well until<br />
Reuben learnt a life lesson on one<br />
of those fairground-esque claw<br />
games in departures. The machine<br />
will always win, especially when<br />
you’re only three.<br />
BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP<br />
REUBEN & MARVEL TEDDY<br />
CHILDREN CAN TAKE AS MUCH TIME AS<br />
THEY WANT – OR AS LITTLE IN REUBEN’S<br />
CASE AS HE CLOCKED THE MARVEL<br />
SECTION IMMEDIATELY – PICKING OUT<br />
THE BEAR THEY’D LIKE TO BUILD.<br />
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