Big exciting grown up stuff for me on Tuesday when I got a new car seat. I'm too big for my baby one now and i've got one just like Ned's. I was seriously pleased about this and squealed with delight when I got it out of the box and parked my bum in it.
There was a world record ten children at trampolining this week, where do they go all the other weeks? We can't work out whats going on with this one, but i'm always glad when theres plenty of other kids there for me to show off to with my bouncing skills.
We had art week at school last week, plenty of oppurtunities for me to get messy and creative as well as take in the mountain of 'recyled' materials we'd been collecting for a few weeks.. Multi sports club has also started again on Wednesday after school. I loved it this week, we played dodgeball outside, in the sunshine.
Friday then, once I was picked up from school the car got packed and we went to the Pasty shop to source some provisions before Mum finished work. We hit the road for Colchester in readiness for Saturdays zoo trip.
That's right, a day early so we had to stay in a hotel! We were proper excited about that one, we could lay in bed and watch telly and eat the sweets that we had bought with us...perfect.
Needless to say, it was quite late before we finally fell asleep.....
So in the morning we were up nice and early and made a visit to the restaurant area for our breakfast. It was amazing, we could have whatever we wanted, I told the chef that it was brilliant and that we normally get what we're given in a caravan on a tent when we're away.
There was allsorts to choose from, but I started with coco pops and then followed that with some toast, a few slices of ham, some cheese and then some fruit.
I also went for the coco pops, followed by a pool of baked beans and then the most exciting thing of all....slices of brown bread. I love brown bread and never get it at home so this was a real treat. I was almost tempted to toast it as the toast machine was seriously cool to watch.
So once we were fed and watered we headed for the zoo, it was only three miles away so we were there really quickly which made a pleasant change from being stuck in the car asking are we there yet over and over again.
Pretty much the first animals we came across were the penguins, we love them because they remind us of Nanny. She would have loved these ones, a right lively lot they were, darting all around the pool.
We compared ourselves to the relative size of penguin species:
Next up was the sealions I think, they had a really cool pool with a glass tunnel that went underneath them where you could stand and watch them swim over you.
As well as some lovely big windows.
We just so happened to be there at their feeding time too, they put on quite a show, fetching like dogs and jumping right out of the water to catch fish.
The Orang-utang enclosure was pretty impressive too, even though I couldn't escape from it:
The most impressive thing about the zoo was probably the other things you could see, like these fish in the Orang-utang house:
Yeah, there were even little monkeys in the reptile house, just hanging about from the roof. The best little monkeys were the ones that invaded an empty push chair though. There must have been at least four or five of them in it, the lady who was pushing it was terrified of them. We all thought it was hilarious of course.
I like to take some pictures on such outings, this was one of my best:
The anteaters were especially lovely, the Mummy one was giving the baby a ride round on her back and then they snuggled down together in their hole, she used her big bushy tail as a blanket for the little one.
There were also a couple of my favourites, flamingoes (pink) and of course the Meerkats:
There were three lions, one boy and two girls. They were really big, I loved them. The were also quite active, scratching their big tree trunk like poppy does at home against the end of the sofa.
There were loads of baby piggies hassling their mummy for milk, they were really cute.
I almost got eaten by a crocodile:
Made a joey of myself:
Tried out a turtle shell for size:
Probably the coolest thing of the day was feeding the elephants I reckon, it's not every day you get to do that is it? They were of course huge, really really massive. So massive in fact that I dropped my morsel before the trunk managed to get it:
After an initial refusal, I gave it another go and was really pleased with myself for going through with it:
Even if I did end up with a hand covered in elephant snot for my trouble. It soon washed off though.
The giraffe house was cool, they had a viewing gallery up high so you could watch them eating their hay, they had really long tongues and would no doubt be brilliant at eating the super long spaghetti we have at home.
There was of course a train to ride on, it took us all round the lemur enclosures and past some Wolves and African hunting dogs.
That I particulalrly liked the look of.
Then it was on to the Tiger area which I loved. I loved watching them pad past, especially when one had a big stretch right up against the window showing everyone his lovely fluffy tummy. I decided I wanted to give them a cuddle.
That was until we got to see the Leopards and one of them took a dislike to us all peering at him and decided to come at us with a big scary growl.
I think we all decided it was the best zoo we'd ever been to, I was well and truly tired out and fell asleep in my buggy.
Leaving me to have a play in the adventure playground on my own before we headed back to the hotel for some more snuggle up time, saturday night telly and sweeties!
We went to sleep a lot quicker this time round though!
Sunday morning and the delights of another hotel breakfast for us before a trip to the swimming pool.
There were no slides or anything but there was a rather lovely hot tub that you could make foam bubble beards out of.
I was on a right mission and was doing whole lengths of the pool with my armbands.
And I managed a length of backstroke unaided. I was pretty impressed with that and decided that I ought to resume swimming lessons......
Then it was back to the room to pack our things and check out.
Which gave me one more chance to creep along under the reception desk to avoid detection by the lady behind it as we left. I'd been doing it every time we came in or went out, she loved it.
No one wanted to get up Monday morning.
I wanted to be back at the hotel........
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