Wow - what a day we had! The weather was beautiful and the animals were wonderful, except that is, for the evil monkeys..... Here are a few photos:
The giraffes were so sweet! I so wanted to stroke them, but we weren't able to get close enough.
The cute little tapir. We were rather amused at the signs that said the tapirs like to spray people, so we didn't hang around them for too long!
Oh how we regretted totally dismissing the Monkey Jungle warning sign.......
This is one of the evil monkeys that ripped off my roof trim, bent it into a boomerang shape and left it balanced procariously around my car aerial!! I was extremely stressed and wanted to leave the monkey enclosure but couldn't as there was quite a build up of traffic. I used to be quite phobic about monkeys but had got better when we went through the monkey area at Woburn last year. Those monkeys were quite sweet in comparison! Needless to say, my monkey phobia has returned!!
We got really close up to the camels, so much so that I thought this one was considering spitting at us!
I love the rhinos, although this one was moving closer and closer to the car which was a little unnerving. After we had passed, the traffic was momentarily stopped whilst the keepers used a bulldozer to move them back towards the fence!
Andy and I pictured in front of Longleat house. What an amazing looking house!
Here is the pathway leading through the Secret Garden. Where does that door lead I wonder....Despite the monkey incident, we thoroughly enjoyed our day out. I've had such a lovely few days with special meals out, cakes, journeys, adventures etc.... it will be hard going back to work tomorrow I think! Have a good week everyone :o)
