2nd October 2010 - Candyfloos

As a birthday treat I'd agreed to take Max down to the Haklone centre and pay for him to have a ride on one of their mean looking quad bikes. Susie had dutifully gone down the day before to checkout the set up, age limit, cost etc etc. Green light given, I went down with Max, Paul and Libby - first hurdle was that rather than being no age limit they had to be 16 years old! Never mind, as we were leaving another chap turned up and asked if the kids had riden quads before, Max answered yes and he said ok fine you can have a go - TII! Libby looked a little concerned so I decided that it wasn't fair for Max to have a go and not Libby so we satified ourselves with 4 goes on the rather ropey looking dodgem cars. Actually appart from the single quad bike the rest of the fairground is very sad and tired looking - the rides were well past their best, like a fairground graveyard with the owners wringing out the last drops! Never the less we all had a right laugh on the dodgems, crashing into each other head on, in reverse, driving the wrong way round etc and the owners not in the slightest bit worried.