Orana Park Visit

Going on safari is a serious business

The hand and hat belong to Joseph - he got brave and fed the giraffes, they eventually saw his little branch sticking up and came over to devour it.

Yesterday we went Orana Park. If we go somewhere we normally go for the morning getting home in time for lunch and then putting boys to bed. Well, by the time we had watched the lions snoozing, the meerkats smooching, seen the tigers being fed and then fed the giraffes it was almost 1pm. So we stayed on to have some lunch snatched from hands by ducks and peacocks and watch the lions being fed (much more exciting than the snoozing) and didn't make it home until about 4pm, by which time there were two exhausted toddlers sleeping and one wee one raring to move because he'd been stuck in the buggy most of the day. We went with Alex's (Joseph's cousin) Grandma as his Mum has been away on a course. Was a super day, although I still don't know how I feel about animals in captivity. They seemed pretty happy. Boys being boys, the ride on the safari tractor/trailer was the most exciting.