Banham Zoo

Off to the zoo at quarter past ten, and Sam ate most of his pickernicker then nodded off on the way. Good, he'll be full of beans when we get there....Parked and had the rest of our dinner then we're off! Banham Zoo is a really nice "small" zoo, and it cost £10.95 for the two of us. They have most of the usual zoo animals you could want to see, except elephants and lions. They do have tigers, assorted monkeys, meerkats, cheetahs, zebras etc, and giraffes are arriving in the summer.

Best of all from Sam's point of view is the playground, with obstacle course, roundabout (a proper, heavy, fast, old-fashioned one), and huuuuge climbing tower with two curly slides, and we spent ages in there in between circuits of the enclosures. Sam also loved the zoo train, which has been re-painted this year - it was zebra patterned last year, now it's a tiger train!

Second favourite was the Farm Barn, where you can feed goats, chickens etc, and stroke all the animals in there. PLUS there are lots of big old farm machines dotted around AND an old tractor that you can sit on and play on - heaven for my little boy. Sam wasn't SO impressed with the amount of goat pooh we trod in when we went to see the goats, but we had a good laugh about it later.

The zoo was a great day out and I really recommend it. Sam loved it so much that as we walked out of the gates to go home he started crying and saying "I miss the zoo, I love the zoo".....and then roughly every 20 minutes after that his little face would crease up and he'd blub "Daddy, I really miss the zoo"....

We got lost on the way home and ended up driving round for half an hour trying to find a place - ANY place - with signposts! Sam thought the phrase "we're in the middle of nowhere" was very funny, but let's face it, most of Norfolk is the middle of nowhere! We made light of our adversity though, and had a singalong to The View, "Same Jeans" changing at intervals to "Same Socks", "Same Shoes" or "Same Pants", sometimes our time in the car, coming or going here and there, is some of our best time together.

And so back to mummy's (see previous entry!)....all in all another great day, with a crappy ending.

When I got home I decided to pop to the Woolpack, and was there for 45 minutes! I had a pleasant chat with Gerry, The Nicest Jock You'll Ever Meet (TNJYEM) about stereotypes and the word "pish", and sure enough one of the jockanese contractors at the far end of the bar immediately went into stereotype, irritating Rab C Nesbitt mode! "You can buy lager for £1.60 in Dundee" etc. It peed me off so much that I made my goodbyes and left!

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