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Monday 14 September 2009

A trip to the zoo

I love Giraffes!
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We took the Podlings on a visit to Twycross zoo yesterday. We made quite a family outing of it as Mark's parents, his brother Greg and Greg's girlfriend Kelly joined us. We packed up a generous picnic, using up all the leftover meat from our barbecue on Saturday night and enjoyed a pleasant afternoon together. It was rather colder than we expected, with Summer giving way to a very Autumnal nip in the air. However, we were grateful it was dry and donned cardigans against the chill. We all had a lovely time watching the animals and watching the Podlings watching the animals. I took a lot of photographs (naturally), but I will spare you the majority of the animal pictures I took and just share a few of my favourite pictures of the Podlings from the day.
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Lily looking at llamas (alliteration anyone?!)
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Emma slept happily in her sling for almost the entire visit
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We were extremely lucky to see the newborn baby elephant who was born just last week
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Tom watching the chimps at play. Of all the animals in the zoo, Tom's favourites were the handful of goldfish in a pond in the monkey house. We had to keep taking him back to look at them again and again. I guess our next family outing had better be to an aquarium!
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Watching the Meercats
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