Today's trip out (the last one of the half-term) was to
Birdworld, down near Farnham. As you might suspect from the name, it's a place with lots of birds - like a zoo, but mostly birds. I took Alex - we had a voucher that wanted using before the end of October - and he and I had a nice day out with just the two of us.
Despite his addiction to video games and Horrid Henry and other typical boy stuff, Alex is also very fond of animals - both real ones and stuffed toys - so this is just the kind of thing he enjoys. I fear it may not last much longer, though it does look like I'll be lucky enough not to have an obsession with football take over from this sort of interest.
Anyway. The birds. Here's a rather fancy duck of some sort:
Here's a penguin:
Here's an owl. The owls were mostly asleep, as it was daytime. But they are still cool.
There were loads more birds, of course - I did NOT take a photo of all of them. In fact, mostly I took photos of Autumnal foliage, etc, but Alex insisted we have at least a few photos of birds. Fair enough, I suppose.
They also had a train ride, a Hallowe'en grotto, and a special Hallowe'en themed animal show, with a talking parrot and a variety of other beasties. It was a nice day - and mild enough to be able to eat our little picnic outside without freezing to death, which is always a good thing!
