The Max had an epic time at the Warhammer Tottenham Court Road shop today for the 30th anniversary of the Space Marines.
He was especially excited to win a mini painting competition with his golden space marine. He painted four miniatures in total today and chatted with kids of all ages about Warhammer and painting and dice rolls and what not. He had a great time.
I love how much he was concentrating on his painting and how much fun he had making new friends.
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Finally downloaded the photos from Ripley’s…here’s our favourite! Watch out for the natives…they are restless…
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We learned a lot today. We visited Bletchley Park, the U.K. Home of code breaking during WWII.
Max solved many codes and ciphers, making good use of their app, which we had downloaded ahead of time.
It’s a beautiful place and the history feels very alive there.
Max particularly liked the Bombe machines and the Enigma machines or, really, all the interactive bits.
The movie bits about The Imitation Game were also very cool, including the costumes.
Max makes quite a fetching officer.
Maybe “fetching” isn’t the word I am looking for.
I found it really interesting and inspiring. It’s pretty amazing what the code breakers did and what they went through to do it. Alan Turing’s story is particularly affecting, though his isn’t the only one.
We definitely recommend a visit. It gets the Max seal of approval.
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Max had never been to a Ripley’s (and it has probably been twenty years since I was last in one) and LivingSocial had a deal on tickets, so I picked some up.
We went today and Max was pumped up from the start.
There were giant chairs, two-headed everything and giant balls of twine swallowed by cows.
We both really liked the weird and random art, like this one of the King of Pop in candy.
Max was a bit concerned about the shrunken heads. Me too.
His favourite parts were the swirly twisty tunnel, the Maze of Mirrors, and the laser race (he ran it alone as he thought that would give him a better score than if I joined him. I’m sure he was right, as I wasn’t about to crawl on the floor). He did well.
The verdict: “Awesome! A good place to go if you want to have fun!”
He even tried his first ever pinball game.
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We have been hitting some of Max’s favourite places for lunch during his holiday break. Yesterday was sushi at Eat Tokyo (tobiko, salmon skin rolls and cucumber rolls mostly for the little man).
Today was Pix in Soho because they are having a great lunch time deal while their street is under construction (a tenner for unlimited tapas). Max says cheers with a chocolate dessert churro… I’m not sure how many fancy Serrano ham sandwiches and albondigas he ate. Yum!
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Today we checked out Novelty Automation near Holborn and had fun with some of the craziest coin operated thingamajigs I have ever seen. You can test your bravery with an automated dog (Max made it just past brave). I won’t tell you what made him pull his hand back in case you try it.
You can play ping pong by riding bicycles. Probe an alien.
Try to trick bankers or see if you can handle nuclear waste disposal (hint: not so easy as Homer Simpson made it look).
So much craziness. Max loved it. You can even get love advice from a Barry White soundalike.
He’s already planning on taking Daddy back to try it out. He wonders if Daddy is brave enough to stick his foot in the Chiropodist machine.
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Today was lesson number two for Max on how to play Warhammer. He pulled out a victory in the end, but it was a close battle!
They were really concentrating on the dice. Next week we need to bring a ton of new guys, so we have some serious gluing and painting to do!
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The Max 