Fang: Welcome back... As you probably know, Kate's been on crutches for quite some time...

Kate: I've just come off, actually!

Fang: As I was saying, she's been on crutches, so we've had a rather interesting month with those crutches... This was our outing.

Last week mum and Bob (Kate's step-dad) had to work... So Grandma was minding us all... Well really she was minding Ruby (Kate's twenty-give-or-take month old sister) and James, until he went to school (Kate's eight-almost-nine year old brother... Who doesn't go to our school... We're off and he's not.), and arguing with Kate to get up, while I stood there listening to Kate's argument with herself...

"Get up. But I don't wanna. I don't care, get up. But it's cold. It'll be worse if you think about it. But I can't be bothered. I don't care, just get up!" and so went the conversation with herself for the next twenty minutes...

She finally got up, and we all piled in the car to go feed Kate's uncle's dogs (Pip - Kate's actual dog, but lives with the boys, and, ironically, Ruby...). So Kate got the front seat thanks to the crutches, so I sat with Ruby (the baby, not the dog) in the back.

"Ah cuck," Ruby said as we drove past a truck. Realizing the size of the truck, she then said, "ah, biiiig cuck!" Give her some credit, she's one and a half...

So after we got to the boys and took Ruby in to see the dogs, Kate stood in the dog-bed-area-thing-kinda-like-a-veranda-but-out-the-back (...), with Ruby on her hip, desperately trying to fend off the curious dogs, namely Ruby... And I helped Grandma feed the dogs.

That's about the interesting stuff from there, so we left and were driving to the park when Grandma said "almost there," to Ruby, and she repeated "ahmos verr." It's kinda cute how she does that...

Then when we got there, it appeared the child lock was set on my door... So Kate just smirked at me and had a silent chuckle... Yeah, let's just say they walked off without me and it took Grandma twenty minutes to figure out why Kate was laughing so much...

So eventually they got me out, and went to the park. Where there was one seat that wasn't in the shade/wet... But only a smidge of it was in the sun, so Kate plonked herself down right in it... It didn't do much, I say this because she continued to complain about how cold it was...

After about twenty minutes we left, we walked (sorry, some of us walked, some of us {Ruby} ran and others {Kate} hobbled...) around the park to the lights.

"Okay, Miss Ruby," Grandma said attempting to pick Ruby up to put her in the pram/bike/buggie... But Ruby kinda ran back towards the park...

-twenty minutes later-

We caught her finally... And now the next challenge...Crossing the road...

It seemed trivial enough, but try doing that with a baby who likes switching the course of the buggie you're pushing her in and a very unco. girl on crutches... Not so easy now, is it?

So, we did it, but it took a moment or two to get our balance at the other side...

Once we were there, we continued over to the shops, where we got Ruby a chocolate milkshake, Kate a caramel one and myself a mint milkshake. They were nice, and we continued to the area of seats and there it was... The holy train ride. Ruby just had to go on it, and not just one of the seats, all six of them...

Afterwards, we walked (see description above) to the other end of the shops, where there was another ride... But this one was the 'Wiggles' ride! And Ruby loves the Wiggles... She calls them 'wuggies' because she can't say it properly, so she was chanting 'wuggies, wuggies, wuggies!' until Grandma put her on the ride.

That's when Kate looked at Ruby's half-drunk milkshake and said "She still not finished that?" Grandma just looked back at us and Ruby gave us a look that said 'don't talk about my milkshake like that!'

Then after a hard day of being Ruby, we took her home for a nap... And that meant, we had survived another outing!

Fang: And as I write this, Kate is sitting here, blasting music from her laptop... And singing along... She's not half bad, but she's being obnoxious and she knows it...

Kate: WOAHHH, MONA LISA!

Fang: Exactly... Way to corrupt Ballad of Mona Lisa...

Kate: -smirks-

Fang: So, if you want more details on what happened to Kate and all that jazz, just take a look at her proper story, 'Replaced, But Never Forgotten.' We just updated that, so there's all sorts of goodies in store for the readers!

Kate: WOAHHH, MONA LISA!

Fang: -rolls eyes- So, if we could get to, say, 20 reviews before the next update, that would be cool... I'll keep the updates regular, if you keep the reviews regular.

Fly on,

Fang & Kate.

R&R.