more holiday highlights
During our stay, we met with Sarah (David's sister), Chris (her husband), Beth (seen below with Felix) and Rebekah (no pic of her here but see http://rebekahsfaces.blogspot.com/ for plenty!)at a "country park" not far from Bristol, where they live. It was nice to catch up in a relaxed and varied setting where we could all meander over and play within several acres containing playgrounds, orchards, cattle, an inflatable play area, and even a little boating lake complete with geese.
We also spent a day in Bristol at the Soil Association Organic Fortnight festival/market. I've been a member of the Soil Assoc (see link on right) for a while but hadn't been to this event before so was glad we happened to be up there at the right time of year! Best photo we have from that day is of this rather dapper (and very friendly) pot-head!
We visited Wookey Hole caves and dinosaur valley. Soli wouldn't go into the cave and was wary of the full-scale dinosaurs outside of it, but we did have fun there-- especially posing as cave people!
We went to Longleat safari park, which 40 years ago became "the first location outside of Africa to open a drive through Safari Park" (www.longleat.co.uk/attractions/safari-park.html). I wasn't sure how I'd feel about it, but the animals mingled naturally and contentedly. Of course I'd prefer to just go to Africa, but short of that expedition this suited us well and was definitely educational and fascinating for the kids!
It was something of a rush to be so close to a rhino. I was really struck by their physique-- the horns, skin and head shapes as well as heft and apparent strength.
We also spent a day in Bristol at the Soil Association Organic Fortnight festival/market. I've been a member of the Soil Assoc (see link on right) for a while but hadn't been to this event before so was glad we happened to be up there at the right time of year! Best photo we have from that day is of this rather dapper (and very friendly) pot-head!
We visited Wookey Hole caves and dinosaur valley. Soli wouldn't go into the cave and was wary of the full-scale dinosaurs outside of it, but we did have fun there-- especially posing as cave people!
We went to Longleat safari park, which 40 years ago became "the first location outside of Africa to open a drive through Safari Park" (www.longleat.co.uk/attractions/safari-park.html). I wasn't sure how I'd feel about it, but the animals mingled naturally and contentedly. Of course I'd prefer to just go to Africa, but short of that expedition this suited us well and was definitely educational and fascinating for the kids!
It was something of a rush to be so close to a rhino. I was really struck by their physique-- the horns, skin and head shapes as well as heft and apparent strength.
posted by Kori at 18:54
2 Comments:
You have a photo of Soli all grown up in here. Really? A Woman??? Cute photos and excellent ones of the animals.
Yeah, well, he tried all of them but this one is the funniest and the best of him. Plus, it saves me having to include the one of ME posing as the cave woman!!
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