Not all good plans go the way they should do but sometimes they turn out just fine. Reason I say this is today it was planned that I would take my Senior Section (Older age range of Guides 14 – 25 year olds) to manchester. Right now we only have 5 regular members and all were planned to be coming along, unfortunately 3 of them bailed meaning as usual we decided to cancel. Only I felt awful as this is the 2nd time this has happened and the two who always want to come along to things were going to miss out AGAIN. So I contacted them last night and let them know, if they wanted to go then we still would, I wasn’t having them missing out again.

So today at 1pm we hopped on the train to Manchester. Just myself and the two other girls.

They were handed a map of the Manchester Christmas markets and told it was their job today to direction us around. Their first task was to direction us to the Manchester wheel which they did relatively quickly…super impressed leader here!
It came as quite a shock when they got to cut the whole queue because I had pre booked our tickets, the girls hadn’t known they were going on this until the night before anyway as it was a surprise. Non of us had been on it before so it was a nice little start to our day. We then proceeded to go to the first of the 9 markets which was closest and revelled in the giant chocolate snowmen.

Afterwhich I discovered neither of the girls had ever been to China town, now I know one of the girls has a HUGE obsession with Hello Kitty and I know China town is a haven for all things Hello Kitty. So we head on over going to the Chinese supermarkets and craft stalls. The girl who is obsessed with Hello Kitty was in her element! We also bought kits to make lucky origami stars with the promise that I would teach them how on the train home.

After China town we finally had something to eat and made our way over to Primark, all the way there though one of the girls is constantly asking if we can go on the tram. I tell her we need somewhere to go on the tram though, while actually thinking we can probably get it back to Picadilly station afterwards.

Primark was a HUGE success with the girls laughing at my enthusiasm for Animal socks and also my obsession for bags. I ended up with a brand new leather messenger bag and a primark “COOL BEANS!” bag while the girls got Animal socks and charms for bracelets.
I was then persuaded by the girls to buy a onesie…..yes I did it I bought a blue polka dot with hearts on onesie and then to go with it brown and blue bear socks.

We promptly headed over to the rest of the markets, ooohing and ahhhing over many wonders and also enjoying the street performers.
We managed to get to all of the markets successfully in 7 hours with stops here and there and had a really good time.
The oldest of the two girls for the remaining 2 hours of our journey quite oddly couldn’t  stop giggling, 2 hours straight of giggling, not helped by when we had to run for the tram in order to get back to Piccadilly.

So in short, yes we were meant to have more of us but we had fun non the less the girls seem to have had a lot of fun and have said so on facebook which is nice to see.

Here are some pictures from the day :-)

 

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