My husband Richard had been planning a piss up with his friend Andrew to Aberdeen for a beer festival event. Thus leaving myself and Albert alone for the weekend.
Andrew’s wife Lindsey asked if we would like to join her, their son Alasdair and a few of their friends to Woburn Safari Park, so we snapped them up on the offer and we headed off bright and early up to Bedfordshire.
On arriving at Woburn we saw lots of animals roaming in the fields. We parked up to meet the others and have a quick toilet break and stretch our legs. Then we all climbed back in to the cars and headed towards the start of the safari route.
We saw Rhinos and Zebras before we came to the Lion, Tiger and Bear enclosure. We were queueing between the big gates to gain entrance, and Albert decided that it was a good idea to open the door!! I freaked out, and reached round and managed to slam it shut and Lindsey promptly clicked the child lock button. That was an exciting start to the afternoon. The boys really liked the Lions but mostly kept pointing out the ranger vans “TIGER RUCKS” as Albert called them.
We then headed to the monkey section, this seemed to entertain the boys most, and also myself and Lindsey!! we saw a couple of monkeys on another car and as we cruised past them I snapped a photo.
This got the monkey’s attention and then jumped on to our car!! The boys thought this was highly amusing. They then slid down the windscreen and jumped off the bonnet. There was a Land Rover with a ladder on it and the monkey’s were instantly drawn to it and swarmed the car, and had a little scrap over who was going to sit on the roof! This was fun to watch too! We also saw some cheeky monkey’s rip off the rubber door trims to a car and try and take the ariel off too! We creeped past without notice and got away lightly. On our exit another little monkey was taunting the ranger and jumped on the car, over the roof and was jumping and bashing his feet on the rear view window, he jumped off when the ranger got closer, we all found this amusing.
On our way toward the picnic area we went past the rhinos again and one walked right in front of the car in front (friends of Lindsey’s) and it got very very close.
We had a lovely lunch and Albert had run around the trees and watching the train take people on rides.
We left about 3pm and the boys had a long nap in the car on the way home, which meant a later bed time for my little dude.
It was a great day, definitely a trip to repeat again.
Victoria
Mummy Bee Knows Best 