Going to the zoo....

Haven't blogged much recently, so thought I'd just waffle on about the wonderful day we had today. Took the kids to Blackpool Zoo, with a preconception of rain all day. However, by about 11am, we had glorious sunshine, and it lasted all day. Also, it's been a while since I've been up there, but what a change! Pretty much the whole zoo has had a complete makeover, a fantastic new entrance facility and a new dinosaur section (obviously, not real dinosaurs, that'd be quite a catch!). Well worth going to see, and it's definitely a full day out. True enough, it's not as big as Chester Zoo, but it's still amazing. One thing to definitely see is Amazonia, a free-roaming monkey enclosure next to the elephant house. Entering the doors, you are greeted by a great number of squirrel monkeys all jumping from one side of the path to another, jumping on your pram (if you have one) and attempting to steal things from pockets! One of the staff commented how a few weeks earlier, someone brought a newborn baby into the enclosure, and one of the squirrel monkeys jumped into the pram, took the baby's dummy (pacifier, for the non-UK reader) and made off with it! Funny to look back on, but not funny at the time, I bet! ;-) What an amazing day, though, and certainly a trip that I will be re-doing very soon.

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