Showing posts with label day out. Show all posts
Showing posts with label day out. Show all posts
Friday, 11 September 2015

Life: A Trip To Chester Zoo

Life: A Trip To Chester Zoo
Friday, 11 September 2015
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As part of the weekly Thursday Date Day thing me and the boy have had going on for the last few weeks, yesterday we took a little trip to Chester to go and have a look around it’s famous zoo. I absolutely love animals and wildlife and have always been a little sceptical about zoos but I’m happy to report that Chester Zoo is absolutely fantastic and I’ll definitely be going there again. All of the enclosures were large and not particularly crowded, animals looked happy and well cared for and it seems like they do a lot for conservation. 






We were incredibly fortunate that we went yesterday as the weather was absolutely incredible, We managed to see penguins and a crocodile being fed, all of which was being filmed for a channel 4 documentary. My favourite animals in the world are turtles and tortoises, as some of you may know, and they had an abundance of them at the zoo which made me ridiculously happy. I thought I’d use this post to share a few pictures that I took during the day, and I definitely would recommend going to the zoo at some point if you’re close-by. They’ve just opened up an amazing new island exhibit which was fabulous and I definitely want to go again as there was so much that we didn’t have a chance to see. 




Have you been to Chester Zoo recently?? What did you enjoy? 
Tuesday, 21 July 2015

Life: A Day at Ripon Races

Life: A Day at Ripon Races
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
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It was my dad’s 50th birthday this weekend just gone and we had a lovely family day out at Ripon races in Yorkshire. My dad’s really into horses so this was the perfect thing to treat him to and we had a lovely day out together, especially since I don’t actually like with them and my brother’s just about to head off to university himself.




We set off early in the morning and had a lovely picnic lunch in the sunshine which was absolutely lovely. The races themselves didn’t start until the afternoon, at 2pm, so we had chance to chill out and catch up as a family which was also really lovely. I put on my first ever horse racing bets and we watched all the races. I got VERY into it towards the end when one of my horses won and I didn’t spend a lot of money considering what an amazing day we had! I would definitely recommend this type of day out as a family, especially since it was a flats race so the horses couldn’t fall. I know for a fact I’d HATE that so this made me feel a lot better about it all! 

Have you done anything nice as a family recently?