A bit of a catch up blog from a week ago today when had a lovely day out at Paradise Wildlife Park to celebrate the boy's nanny's birthday. Tina was asked if she could do an extra day at work which just so happened to fall in the Easter holiday and on my Mum's birthday. So I took the day off to get our new car and then head off to the zoo.
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| Auntie Lisa, Joshua and Brandon. |
The entrance to Paradise Wildlife Park is a parents worst nightmare. In order to get to see the animals you need to first pass the indoor play area, then the outdoor play area and sandpit, then some arcade ride-on machines and then the bouncy castle / helter skelta before you get to the animals. Needless to say it is quite an achievement to actually make it into the zoo part of the park.
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| Joshua and Brandon driving their safari jeep. |
After Longleat Safari last year, one of the first questions the boys asked me was if the naughty monkeys would be in a cage this time instead of trashing our car!
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| Which one is the cheeky monkey? |
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| The boys are forever getting more and more confident with animals and were quite happy to hand feed a donkey. |
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| This is one of the rarest creatures that the zoo has caged up. Apparently there is only one of these in the entire world. |
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| Little Brandon looking on and watching Auntie Nicky's favourite animals - the otters. |
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| Look at this beautiful pair of Jaguars. |
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| No zoo trip and related blog are complete without a picture of a Meerkat. One of the boys favourite ted's is still their meerkats that they got from Tropical Wings. |
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| Penguins..........I think the boys were expect them to surf like in the movie "Surfs Up". |
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| The boys then had a nice little ride around the zoo on the back of this tractor trailer. |
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| Daddy's favourite animal - the alligator. |
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| And Brandon's favourite of the day - a big yellow snake. |
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| I was lucky enough to get this stunning picture of a white tiger at full stretch throwing its head back. It must have stood a good 8 or 9ft high. |
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| A Joshua meerkat. |
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| And a Brandon Meerkat. |
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| As well as feeding the donkeys we got to feed these lovely zebras. I think thanks to Madagascar the boys recognise zebras as friendly animals and had no trouble feeding these. |
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| I think the boys were hinting that they want to go back to digger land again. |
Since we last went to Paradise Wildlife Park they have expanded the children's area quite significantly and added a sand play area, a building brick area, and a ride on Thomas train. So there is absolutely plenty there to fill a whole day.
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| Joshua and Brandon were mixing the brick play with the sand play. |
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| Using the bricks as sand mouldings. |
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| Clearly all my beach time with the boys is paying off as Joshua remembers how to bury his feet. |
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| Brandon tried but just preferred flicking it everywhere (including his hair, his ears, his eyes, down his back and so on........ |
I owe Auntie Lisa for once showing the boys how to make snow angels! They remembered this and found it funny to make sand angels. Hence they were absolutely smothered in sand.
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| Brandon loved playing on the bouncy castle whilst Joshua was up and down like a yo-yo on the helter skelta. Poor Brandon was not tall enough to go on it. |
And finally a big Happy Birthday to the boys Nan and my Mum. May she have many more birthdays and enjoy sharing them with the family. Love, we four King's.
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| The boys Nan and Granddad riding on the Tomas train around the Wildlife walk. |
1 comment:
A big thank you to Auntie Lisa for organising this day trip. Everything about the whole day was fab! Enjoyed seeing all of the animals, the staff were very helpful and the sun was shining! I also took loads of photos and managed to catch a glimpse of the one of a kind Brandon monster in his cage! thank you all for another great day out xxx
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