The One About Knowsley Safari Park...

I can't believe how long it's been since I last blogged!  The reason being, I've felt decidedly under the weather, and just haven't been on the internet at all - literally been getting in from work and falling asleep on the sofa!  I'm still not 100% but I'm getting there, and thought that whilst I was having a better moment I would do some catching up!

So...Last Monday (20th June) was mine and M's anniversary - we've now been together two years!  Keeping with tradition (last year we went to Chester Zoo) we decided to go to Knowsley Safari Park.  As it was a week day it was fairly quiet and we were able to meander round at our own pace, and pull over to have a good look at the animals if we wanted.

We took hundreds of photos but I'll just share a few of my favourites....

In one spot in the lion enclosure there were quite a few little lion cubs, and they were all asleep and looked really cute.  You can't really make them out in the photo, but unfortunately my lens wasn't good enough to get the full benefit

 Further along the road there was a whole gang of lions sitting together and M managed to catch this really good shot of the lion yawning!  All that sleeping and posing must have tired her out!

 At Knowsley Safari Park for those of you that don't know, the public can drive through the baboon enclosure (at their own risk) or drive past but still be able to see them.  Anyway M is braver than I am, and decided we would drive through.  The baboon above almost immediately jumped onto the bonnet and had a ride around the enclosure with us!  One of the other baby ones got on too, but as he was on the roof I couldn't get a photo!  Other cars going round had whole parties of them on their cars!  Their mistake was to stop, whereas we kept on driving round!

 The next enclosure had a mix of camels, rhinos, buffalo and types of deer.  I think we got there just after feeding time because they were all grouped together at the beginning.  Anyway, the rhino above, although walking quite slowly was intent on ploughing into my car.  Luckily the ranger was there in her range rover drove at the rhino to move it on.  I was just a little bit scared it was going to go right into us!

 Towards the end of the park, you can park the car and walk round, to see the elephants, camels and other smaller animals.  Well we were quite entranced by the meercats!  We could have watched them for hours!

And we got to see a sea lion show, which was really fantastic, they were really clever and great at doing all their tricks.  My only concern was that their enclosure that they swim in the rest of the day didn't look very big.  But I'm sure that the people at the Safari Park know what they're doing and care for the animals :)

In other news M is busy putting spot lights in my new craft area.  Yesterday M's dad did a lot of the finishing touches with the painting, so all being well I might be able to put all the scrapbook stash away tomorrow!

Thankfully I've got this whole week off, we're at a wedding in Surrey on Wednesday, so travel down on Tuesday and back on Thursday.  Then on Friday we're going camping for the weekend with our friends, as it is their birthday.  It'll be nice to have the day to myself tomorrow to catch up on things I haven't done over the last few weeks - even if it is only house work!