Day 5 Pettitt's

Day 5 was a little bit of a let down as we drove for nearly an hour to go to Pleasurewood Hills only to find out it is now out of season and only open at weekends. With two very irritated toddlers in the car we quickly recovered the situation with the help of sat nav and located another animal/theme park called Pettitt's Animal Park.

Once in there one of the first things we found was these large slides and fearless Brandon was flying down next to his bigger brother.

Both boys watch a lot of Chugginton these days and thus Joshua was more than happy to take charge of a chugger and take his brother and old man for a leisurely chug around the park.

Soon after the train we found these old model T type cars and once again Dad was dragged along as the boys took me for a spin.

There were many other toddler rides at the park including a little roller coaster. I managed to get a reprieve for this one and Mum took to the helm with the boys.

Then there was a couple of smaller rides which the boys could ride on their own giving us both a break.

Here is Joshua practicing his Fireman Sam skills.

Onto the tea cups and Mum was called into action again. Joshua decided to ride solo, so Brandon and Tina teamed up in the second cup.

The park has a miniature railway which runs around the circumference. All four of us rode this and during the "chug" we manage to see a few of the animals as well.

The driver takes us across the bridge.

There is no let up on the trains theme as the boys then find this red chugger with two slides.

Given that Pettitt's is predominantly an animal park, as you have probably gathered it took quite some time before we could drag the boys off of the rides and into the animal park area. But eventually we got them there.

Here we are hand feeding some goats. Both boys got very close but neither were brave enough to feed the animals themselves.

Some miniature horses. I am sure that green sign next to Joshua says "DON NOT climb the fence".

Brandon checking out the birds. Looks like he is a leg man as these ones have some very long legs.

Brandon getting close to some of the other animals.

To end the day there was a pretty cool outdoor park which enabled the boys to burn off that final bit of energy before an ice cream and then the journey home.

Here is the fearless Brandon coming down one of the slide tubes.

Day 6 was probably the highlight of the holiday for me as we went to an absolute stunning place called Bewilderwood. Read more tomorrow and be prepared for a lot of pictures.

Day 4 "I Am Speed"

Another bit of a wind down day on Day 4 as we once again stayed on site. We kept to the usual routine of beach, swimming pool and then soft play before lunchtime. During soft play we let our imagination run a bit wild (or at least Dad did) and we made this giant Tractor/Train. Both our boys and all the other children seemed to enjoy playing on our creation.

This version of our vehicle was modified by Joshua and included some extra wide rear wheels.

After lunch and a power nap we took the footballs over to the ball park for a good kick around. Joshua's football club is clearly paying dividend's as he was flying around the ball park.

Little Brandon practicing some keepie uppies.

Check this out for an action shot, now that's a powerful strike.

Of course the motorised bikes featured once again in the days activities. Only now Brandon was getting into it as well so we were starting to race..............Born to be wild...............



Joshua just nudges ahead in the race.

After the bikes me and Joshua rented a two seater go kart and boy did we have a blast around the caravan park. Similar to the four seater cycle, we were getting airborne over the speed bumps. An hour on this baby was pretty exhausting to say the least. But Joshua enjoyed it so much that he now keeps asking for a go kart for his next birthday. Sounds good to me, gets him some exercise and gets him outdoors. I would by lying if I said I didn't get a kick out of playing on the go kart with him.

Brandon didn't like the go kart so he went off with Mum whilst me and Joshua had our blast.

In the evening time it was back to yet another children's show. Don't ask me who these characters are as I have forgotten.

But after the show I managed to get a picture with both the boys and Roary The Tiger.

As we left the show Joshua got to witness his first ever rainbow and was absolutely thrilled about it. So much so he was showing ever passer by that he could see.

Finally back in the arcades and Mummy was giving Brandon a bowling lesson.

And as usual me and Joshua were having driving lessons.

Day 5 saw us head off to Pettitt's Animal and Theme Park for another action packed day.