Scavenger Hunt #20 A Swing Hanging from a Tree

This 1 was successfully completed by my family and not me, well I took the pictures but they found it.
Whilst at the caravan for the weekend a few weeks ago, that is when I told them family about the hunt I was taking part in at Rinda's Place. The list that I need to complete is just on the right hand side panel.
Whilst going through the list of things to find and picture, they told me they knew where there was a swing in a tree, down by the water.
This took us on a little adventure as we walked round the estuary towards the front of the houses that over looked the water and low and behold someone had been a busy beaver and put up not 1 but 3 swings of different types.
As it was winter time then there was no one around so the boys got to have lots of turns on the swings.

This shows you the trees in the distance with 2 of the swings, Alex is stood by 1 of them and Steve the other. What you can also see if you look very closely is Ben sat on the 3rd swing on the right hand side, just between the grass and the tree.
They had a ball playing here and I had a ball taking pictures so Be Warned there are a lot of pictures in this post!

the swing in the tree that fulfills the hunt requirements 

2nd swing just for good measure

little help required

and away we go....wee

This was an awesome family moment, everyone out on a mission to find a swing for me and all having lots of fun at the same time

New Skill

Today, Alex learnt a new skill.

The skill of being able to swing on a swing on his own.

He has learnt to kick out his legs and bend them back again to move himself.

He was so chuffed at his new skill he spent half the day out there, although when it rained he came in, and then rushed back out there with a towel to wipe the swing dry!

Swings

Yesterday, Ben had a Teacher Only Day at school.
This meant that there was no school. Ok they did give us about 3 months warning that the day was coming up!
Unfortunately for us, it just fell into place that neither Steve nor I could get the day off work, well I couold only get half the day, so one of Ben's classmates kindly had him over for the morning.

It sounds like he had a great time, playing at the park, eating Ice Cream and having McDonalds for lunch.
Unfortunately, whilst at the park Ben decided to swing a swing, or more like, push the swing but hum, he kinda forget to move when the swing swung back....!
He now has the biggest fat lip ever!
He has also managed to graze off the skin on the front of his lip with the rope from the swing.
So his mouth looks a horrible mess at the moment and I think it is only going to get worse before it gets better, because it is going to get all dry with the scab and this will bug him for a while.

You can see the split in his lip where he was so lucky because if it had split more then I think he would have had to have had stitches in his lip!

But he had a great morning with his friend from school, so he is not bothered at all.