He woke up about 7am this morning and we sat in bed with a pile of presents. He managed to open two - two in an hour! He was very sweet as when he opened a present, he just HAD to play with it. And when he opened the box set of cars, no further presents were opened. Each car had to be careful taken out the box, stroked, smiled at, wowed at, brummed a little then put back in the box! 20 cars later ....
May be by the weekend, he'll have opened all his pressies. But then again ...
We just about made it out the house by 9am. Even though Jon was away, I still wanted to take Callum out for the day. One of my friends and her son offered to keep us company and we all had a fab day.
We went to Marwell Zoo - I had been there five years ago and wasn't overally impressed, but so much had changed. The viewing points at most of the enclosures had been hugely improved so kiddies in buggies could see in. There were even some walk through enclosures which were great fun.
In the Australian Walk-About section they had wallabies jumping about and also Kookaburras flying about. These were people-birds! Anyone that walked in got stalked by the Kookaburras ... they even tried to have Callum's toes for lunch!!
There's so much to see you really need the full day there. One our way out we passed the snow leopard enclosure. All three were out playing (and the viewing areas had huge glass panels so there was no wires to distract). They were stunning and gorgeous and we just had to take one home with us. Callum is now the proud owner of a Snowy!We got back to a pile of parcels left on the doorstep, 5 answer phone calls of birthday messages, numerous text messages and a visit from one of Callum's godfathers (sorry Jim, Callum had zonked about about 20 mins before you arrived).
I've just downloaded about 500 photos on to the computer from the last two days (over half have been deleted) and I'm now trying to figure out if any are suitable for this module of the Painting With Light Course.
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