A day at the zoo

Not long ago we spent the day at Chessington World of Adventures.

It is a great park for tweenies who have out grown Legoland, but are  not tall enough for the rides at Thorpe Park.  Its tweenie status seems to attract a smaller crowd and there couldn't have been more than about 100  cars in the car park.  We didn't queue for any of the rides and quickly hopped from one stomach churner to the next.  As I get motion sickness from a lift, after three rides I was very green and reaching for the nearest bin.  Thank goodness for the children's zoo  where I spent most of my day. 

The gorillas are some of the most successful breeders in captvity, (I guess that there isn't much else to do) We couldn't see the new born, but dad is looking a bit left out and grumpy. It's a look I've seen before.

The mirrored maze in the haunted house was fantastic, allbeit a health and safety nightmare.

Some one was a lot more excited about the Dracula ride than me.

These pretty water features were everywhere, they are really beautiful.

More chickens, I spent many hours with them.

And the ostriches who were quite as inquisitive as I was.

The mother was showing me her baby when the older monkey jumped in the way to have his photo taken.

The ostrich thought all of the monkeying around rather beneath her.