In collaboration with Into the Blue – Experience Gifts & Memories
We’ve built a time machine.
True story.*
So, we’re going on an epic family adventure. The thing is with building a time machine is that it doesn’t matter about booking time off work and school, you can just go, spend as long as you want adventuring in whatever era you want, and then return into the present and continue as if nothing has ever happened.
Except you know what’s happened.
And it’s oh so totally awesome.
The first place on our travels is back to the time of the dinosaurs, at the request of our nearly 7 year old. He wants to go back to the time when ankylosaurus’ walked the earth (his favourite dinosaur because they get to whack people with their tails), but the catch is that he wants to go there with a potion that will turn him into an Ankylosaurus too.
I’m all for encouraging independence in the kids, so I’ll leave this potion development up to him, but apparently it contains ankylosaurus blood, ankylosaurus sweat and crushed up bits of armour so it turns into a watery thing, and then a bit of the boulder bit at the end of the tail crushed up too.
Our daughter, aged 9, has requested that we visit the time of the North American Indians when they lived in teepees. She wants to live in a teepee and she wants to ride a horse.
The Teenager wants to go back to the 1990s to have a shot at the ancient Nintendo. Failing that, he’d like to go back to the time when the ancient Greeks were knocking about. He wants to be one of those guys with the swords, he says. Quote unquote.
My Black Sails obsessed husband would like to go back to the mid 1700’s and sail on a pirate ship for a day. He doesn’t want to do all plundering and murdering that pirates are wont to do, he just wants to sail from island to island wearing really cool clothes. (Dear husband, but what about the Norwegian Statsraad Lemkhul which calls into our own island several times a year – hint, hint?!)
Then, because I’m a curious sort of individual, we will all travel back to the beginning. The very beginning. Just to see what really happened. The thing with traveling in a time machine is that we have the ability to re-run the experience, and to slow it down or speed it up as we need too, so we can scientifically analyse exactly what happened and then report back to mankind.
How awesome would that be?
What if money, physics and… reality… were no object? What would you do? Into the Blue want to know!
Into the Blue is a UK company offering experiences and memories – whether you’ve always wanted to drive a race car around the track, go white water rafting or fly an airplane, they’ve got something, over 2000 experiences, for everyone at locations all throughout the UK.
Into the Blue are hosting an #ImpossibleExperiences competition where they want to know what you would do if money and imagination was not limited. Would you have a picnic on the moon? Would you build a time machine like us? We’re not telling you how we made ours – you’ll have to suss it out for yourself! 😉 Would you scale Big Ben on New Year’s Eve?
To enter the competition simply tweet or Facebook Into the Blue with your idea using the hashtag #impossibleexperiences before midnight on the 29th of February 2016. There are three £200 prizes up for grabs to spend on a real life experience with Into the Blue.
To find out more about the competition visit the Into the Blue website.
* Well not really. But I could build a time machine if I really set my mind to it, because I can do absolutely anything if I am determined enough.**
** That’s a positive affirmation by the way, not an inflated ego. 😉
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Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary has written this blog post in exchange for flying lessons this summer in Scotland. True story***. All images except for the Into the Blue #impossibleexperiences screenshot from Shutterstock. Click on each image to open the source page.
***This is really, really true.
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Oh I want a time machine – what fun it’d be. Am going to spend all evening now trying to decide where I should go 1st. Love all your fab ideas in this post 🙂
Oh I would love to have a time machine – would come in very useful for school holidays, but I do fancy a ringside seat at the big bang, a quick look at dinosaurs and popping in to solve a few historical mysteries along the way.
Loved this post! I would love to go back to the 60’s to see the world my mum grew up in
I adored history at school (and went on to study it at university too) so I think I’d like to do a Bill & Ted and visit a whole host of different eras and famous events and people, just to see how accurate our understanding is — they do say history is written by the victors, and there’s no such thing as an objective record…
And then yes, the Big Bang and the Jurassic would also be on my list!
I would love to go back to the time of the Ancient Egyptians to meet Queen Hatshepsut. I would also like to go back to the 50’s, with all the lovely petticoats and dresses, as I choose to dress like this now, but would like to experience it first hand.
Wow, that’s a tricky questions. But I think like you, I’d love to go back to the beginning, just to see really what it was like, and who wins the argument about what or who created the world… science or religion? That would be great 🙂
This is a great competition, really gets you thinking outside the box. Thanks for sharing 🙂
This is a great post and really makes you think! I think I would like to experience the 70’s!
Great post and idea – this is such a fab give away. I have so many ideas of things I would like to do. Kaz x
If I could go back in time, I’d go back to the Sixties – it sounds like such a fun time!
I would want to go back to the time the dinosaurs where on the earth! And also Victorian times, provided I had a rich family haha
Part of me wants to leave the past where it is, but I would also love to meet my grandfather who died long before I was born because my mother tells me I am his mirror image x
If I could go back to anywhere it would probably be 1950’s America. I would have loved being a teenager then.
Ahhh, if it only it was possible to travel back in time. I think I’d like to travel back to the 60’s. Th fashion and music… the sense of community, it’d be fantastic! Great post! xx
Great post. I love your writing voice. I would have loved to go back to the 80s but be a teenager.
I love this! It would be amazing to travel back in time, there are so many times I would love to visit! I would really like to visit London in the Victorian times, I don’t know why?!
-I love your time machine concept, I would love to go back to Ancient Egypt, Medieval & Tudor Europe and speak to some of my favourite historical figures.
Haha this is such a great post.. my little man would definitely love to do the dinosaur part 🙂
oh what a great post if only we could go back in time it would be fabulous indeed
haha I love these! I think I would love a go at ancient greece, see how they really lived!! what a great idea, and i’m sure you could build a time machine! but who would post all the tasties if you did!
Great read. I think I would love to have gone back to the glamorous 1920’s.
I love your idea. For me it would be to join my girls as mermaids under the sea on a trip to Atlantis. I’m terrified of the water so being a mermaid would mean I could be worry free. As long as I didn’t swim into your pirate husband of course lest he kidnap us!
I would love to go back to the 60’s as I think it would be such a great experience
I’d definitely go back to the 70s! Such an interesting read.
This is very interesting. I am very intrigued.
I think I would have gone back to the Egyptian times, it would have been interesting to see how that part of the world back in that era.
I’d love to go back to either the 60’s or 80’s to experience live in times I know I would have loved x
This is utterly fantastic! I love it, and I love the fact that all of you want to experience something different from it. I think I would have to go back to the 50’s when being a stay at home mum wasn’t frowned upon and women could wear skirts and not be thought of as ‘over dressed’! xx