Monday is Max's day care day so that was out too. The voucher ran out on Wednesday and had to be redeemed before then. We thought every man and his aardvark would be using it on Wednesday so it had to be Tuesday. So we get Max mentally prepared and head off for a family outing. It was to be just Max and I for father - son binding purposes over a blokey thing like a car wash. Max got a bit upset and wanted Mum to come which was cool. We get there and guess what the machine was broken and getting serviced! We went in and asked how long would it take to fix seeing we had a 2yr old we had promised a car wash to. It would be at least another 2hrs. We decided that would really try his patience so we went over and showed him the man fixing the machine and he was upset and wanted to see the bushes (brushes) in action. The good people of B.P however told us we could redeem a voucher then and we had a month to use the voucher.
After Max's afternoon nap he and I headed off for the father - son bonding session. It was now just after school time and there was a line of 10 cars in front of me! I did the maths pretty quickly and realised that at 5 minutes a car that was almost an hour and he would tear me limb from limb if we tried to do that plus I had to be in Ipswich for a meeting shortly after that as well.
We gave up on Wednesday because we knew that everyone would try and redeem the voucher on the last day.
On Thursday we pulled in and had only 3 cars in front of us. We decided we had sultanas and water and toys on board and we could wait it out. Max is pretty understanding for a 2yr old if you talk him through something but 3 visits to the car wash and not getting the car washed was doing our heads in as well. We read some books and sang some songs and tried to tell him what to expect so he would not freak out. I have heard that it can be a bit too much at that age.
It was finally our turn and we talked Max through each of the processes and he saw the water go across the front window and his window and then he saw bubbles which are one of his favourite things in the whole wide world. When the car shook from the brushes he got a little apprehensive but was so happy he saw bubbles he settled down. We went through all of the processes including the dryer and then as we drove out he wanted more.
On the first two trips we had our camera to capture his reaction but on the third trip we forgot the camera so you will just have to paint a picture with your mind.
So if you need to kill some time with a 2yr old and don't want to get out of the car go to a carwash!
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I am so glad you had a positive experience with a 2 yr old and a car wash... no so for us! Nathaiel was horrified that all he could see was bubbles and foam and yelled/screamed for the entire washing experience, "OH NO!" with his hands on his cheeks and mouth opened wide. No more car washing with Nate unless you want to go deaf.
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