Rain stops play - toddler dissapointment

This was going to be a very different post.
I was originally going to write about never promising a toddler something when the weather can have an effect. All week we have been promising to take Roo to the fair if she was a good girl. It worked and she was good (to be honest, she's normally pretty good I just like to reward it). So today we were going to the fair. It was only small but that suited us because less rides = less expense and Paw Patrol were advertised to be there today from 3 - 5pm.
So originally I was going to talk about the fact the rain was making it less of an exciting prospect. It chucked it down at about 2pm and we were thinking about how not fun it would be in the rain.

Well the rain eased and we headed to the fair at around 3pm.

 


Roo was telling us she was "getting so cited bout the fair" the whole way there and we were all glad we'd decided to head down despite the weather.

Then we got there and they were packing it all away! I was (and still am) very very annoyed. How could they do this to children? They had become packing away before the Paw Patrol were even meant to appear. This had been advertised on posters all over the village, there were plenty of kids excited about meeting their favourite characters.
I get that they're losing money if it's raining but there were people walking towards it the whole time we were heading home, people were still coming out despite the weather. Packing up early is one thing, disappointing loads of kids because an advertised activity is another.
Why couldn't they have held on 2 more hours to let the children meet their favourites and have a couple of rides. At bare minimum couldn't they have put something over the posters saying cancelled so parents could deal with it before they got there. Instead Roo found out the same way we did, seeing the rides packed up on the back of trucks.



I hate disappointing Roo, but I hate other people disappointing Roo more! Thankfully we managed to calm the storm by going to Morrisons (which she loves, weird kid) and buying her 2 blind bags using some of the money destined for the fair. We've managed to save the afternoon of fun by having an at home cinema.

So now I'm going to join the rest eating popcorn and sweet while watching a My Little Pony movie.

Happy Saturday all!

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