A change of Plan isn't always a bad thing

Today was supposed to be a simple day, I should have known that it was all going to be turned upside from the ease that plans were made.
The day began pretty much as planned, all of us managed to find clean clothes and get in the car in order to go and buy daughter her Xbox360 using the money she 'obtained' (honestly) from nanny.  We decided that Ashford would be far quieter then Canterbury on a Saturday morning so off we went, even found parking at the first place we looked!  Of we trot to HMV, with huge pleasure it appeared (by the signs/boxes etc etc) that they had the desired 20GB preowned Xbox360, however after trying to buy one it became apparent that shops now display goods they don't stock, something that couldn't be repeated yes?  OH NO, feeling a little deflated we nipped to Game, sure they had the right one in stock but for £20 more then HMV.  We decided to keep this option open and then went to a Electronic exchange shop; laughing at their prices we left.  One more shop to try Gamestation, they also appear to display goods they don't have in stock as the Xbox360 20GB in the window 'isn't for sale, we can only do you a newer one which is £60 more then the one you asked for'.  
At this point I was getting cross, Jasmine was upset, Noah was bored and Gareth was clearly very worried that another town center was going to host stage 2 of our hunt.  Deflated we returned to Game, yes they had the one we wanted in stock, didn't they?  Well um no in fact, yet another shop displaying goods they just didn't have BUT all was not lost, the manager decided that seeing as they displayed the goods they would give us an upgrade at no extra cost, Jasmine then went on to buy some games to kill fake people on.   
Hunt over we returned home, Oh did I mention at some point Noah managed to con me out of £25 for a replacement of his Lego Starwars game? No well he did.


Home time Hurrah, well after stopping in at KFC for a treat, seeing as we were supposed to be helping clean up the town Sea Cadet Unit in the afternoon.  
We arrived home to a phone call from the Unit chairwoman, her daughter had a fall and was waiting on an xray, could we let the cadets know that the clean up and associated free pizzas was postponed, Naturally I jumped in the car and whizzed down to let the 2 cadets who had shown up know they could go home.  One had a hangover and was in honesty quite relieved.


So what should we do now?  How about a BBQ on the beach? Hurrah yes it was agreed, Nanny & Grandad was invited; we would convene on Seasalter beach at 5pm.
Nobody knew there was a gale blowing, force 4 I'm informed!!  But none the less we perservered and had our BBQ complete with blast furnace cooked sausages.  But it was wonderful fun, something to be repeated indeed.

And now I am going to drink tea, snuggle on the sofa. and watch my Saturday evening programs Oh yes a change of plans may occur again but I'm pretty much ready for anything.