It's a Washout!

Back in the 1970's there was a highly entertaining game show called "It's a Knockout", hosted by the now notorious Stuart Hall and Eddie "Up and Under" Waring (people of a certain age will remember). The European version was "Jeux Sans Frontieres", which doesn't translate exactly as "It's a Knockout"; in fact it doesn't translate as that at all and instead reads "Games Without Frontiers" (which also was the title of a track for Peter Gabriel on his imaginatively named 3rd album "Peter Gabriel", but I digress).

The point is that these games involved people in giant foam costumes running about a lot and everyone got wet as almost every game involved tons of water.  The Belgians were usually rubbish at most things, the English teams would have a good crack but it was usually the French and the Germans who came out on top. 

The Dutch entered but rarely won anything although I reckon today we could have had a damn good go at having an on-site contest.  The weather has been nothing short of abysmal and large puddles lay everywhere. The girls have still all have had a good time and have been down at the Tiki-Bad (indoor water park) where, at the time of writing, we think Megan has left her shoes.  There isn't a ton of stuff to do in a caravan in the rain, especially when there is no TV and they don't want to play any games.  But, they did all go out and around the park for a few hours which left us to read our books and do the sort of stuff that adults do when the kids aren't about.  You know, rest and relax, that sort of thing...

Anyway, they did all get soaking wet, not only from the water park but from the journey there and back.  Do most 15 year old girls wash their hair extensions and then leave them on the airer like this- 

And then, why would they spend an hour an a half getting ready to go out to the plaza tonight, including a significant amount of time straightening their hair, when none of them have a brolly and the second they step out in the rain it will go all wavy?  Here are some miserable rainy images from around the site to make you all feel better.

Tomorrow we are off to Amsterdam for the day.  The girls expressed a desire to visit Anne Franks house; I was impressed! Blimey, they have learnt something at school, I thought.  However, my hopes were dashed as they told me it was only because Justin Bieber had been there and signed the visitors book so they wanted to see what he wrote.

Oh well.