Friday 10th January 2020

Another Poya day here in Sri Lanka and another long weekend for kids off school for 3 days, even though they only been back to school for 3 days. We have decided to go for a trip just out of Colombo to a Bellanwila Park .

3 mums and 7 kids on a scorching morning hired bikes with no gears (mine had front basket I could put my bag in, I felt like an old lady), no helmets.

Safe place to be as long as you have put on plenty of sun cream factor 50 or long sleeved top and trousers, hat, sunglasses and drink plenty. There is place to stop for an ice cream, as we did.

However after 2 hours outdoors in that heat and about 6 laps of cycling, we called it a day and were glad to be back in air conditioned car.

As we all get on really well, we had a special treat lunch in our favourite Vietnamese restaurant. Emi had Vietnamese chicken noodle soup, Misa had Vietnamese Vonton chicken noodle soup and I had noodles with chicken and vegetables. 

We were glad to be back home for a refreshing cold shower and vegetating infornt of TV.