Wednesday 19 August 2009

Whipsnade Visit

Before I get into toady's blog update there is some breaking news on Brandon. He has finally managed his back to front roll for the first time. So that is now back to front and front to back. Crawling soon...........

Anyway today we had a family day out to Whipsnade Safari park. At times it was a little too hot to be walking around outside (I think even the animals would agree), however it did give the day a genuine safari feel. Once in the entrance we were greeted with some free roaming Maras. Despite Joshua's fear of dogs he seemed pretty comfortable getting fairly close to these animals.

After that we found the sea lions - this is a great picture. It looks like Joshua is kissing the sea lion through the glass and Brandon has that look on his face as if to say "WHAT!".

Here is me and my boys at the elephant enclosure. Joshua would not pose for the camera as he now knows how to say "elephant" and was pretty fixated on these animals.

Another piccie of me and the boy's....

Whilst Joshua was having his milk me and Brandon went walkabout and found some free roaming wallaby's. As it was so hot they weren't really free roaming - but just laying in the shade. We didn't complain as it gave us a chance to get real close.....

No real reason for the next picture other than it is a nice colourful photo.

The boy's saw tigers and lions, but the cheetahs were all hiding in the shade. So this was as close as Joshua got to a cheetah.

Joshua learnt two new words today - the first was "hippo"
And the second was "rhino"
Joshua enjoying some chocolate ice cream to help cool down..........
Again no real reason for the next piccie other than I think it is another good shot.

Did you know that Whipsnade even has a "build-a-bear" shop???? Here is the bear that me, Joshua and Brandon built today.

More of the elephants............later in the afternoon these were free roaming around the park. Can you spot the tiny little baby in the picture.

And to end this blog update - the classic pictures with Joshua and Brandon's head shots amongst some pictures of animals. There are two monkeys in the picture below........

And Brandon sandwiched between a lion and some meerkats.

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