Yesterday turned out to be a bit of a surprise. The biggest surprise was ending a day out standing about 30cm from a Siberian tiger looking her right in the eye. Stunning.
Thirty years ago (I now realise I am old) I travelled to the most famous theme park in the North of England at the time, Flamingo Land. I have to say that my memory was not great - being primarily that of a soggy, dull day, a very bad piece of animal theatre where the gorilla escapes into the crowd and a sad, muddy pond with some drab looking washed out flamingoes.
For the last five years apparerently we have moved to a place only fifteen miles away and never thought to go there - until the curious young man in our lives decided he needed entertaining every weekend.
So we went and we were very surprised. In many ways it is sad that animals have to be kept in zoos, however it would be sadder if they didn't get the attention of zoos and so the animals became extinct. And praise to Flamingo Land as they have combined a typical rides style theme park with an excellent zoo with plenty of space for most of the animals.
Such a joy to watch Mini-Me running around shouting 'Camel', ' Giross', he hasn't quite mastered giraffe, 'Tortiose', 'Tractor', ' Lion', and finally, 'Tiger'.
We bought season tickets so we will be back to prowl with the tigers who live in a large pen with windows all around so you can get up close and very personal with them.
Such a wonderful day, more so as it was such a surprise.
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