Soggy Birthday

Well, this morning looked really promising - and armed with a recent forecast telling of light rain showers until 1pm we headed for the Cotswold Wildlife Park.

We met up with all the special people we'd arranged to see there (My parents, Fizz, Ian & Em, Heidi, Mark, Caleb, Elodie,Wendy, Bernie, Toby, Sam, Andrew and girlfriend), and got down to business of seeing the animals. Particular favorites were the penguins, spider monkeys, otters.. Oh heck - they were all great actually.

What was not so great was that it started to rain - and these were not light showers - this was rain that was here to stay. We finally decided that as we'd seen all the indoor animals that we would take our picnic to Heidi & Mark's. (A HUGE thank you to them for this!) We arrived there rather soggy and hungry - the picnic was a great success though.

So, the weather threw us a real curve (it's still raining now!) But the people there made it really special for Joy, and she's just been saying what a lovely day it's been for her. My girl is now a big 7 year old!

(I'll post some photos just as soon as I can!)