Small Ideas, Big Adventures!

When I was a child, I would dread Sunday afternoons when we would hear the dreaded words "lets go for a walk"..... 'awwwwwwwwwww Mum! Dad! do we have too??!?!??!?!?!?!'

Its funny, walking was probably one of the most important things we do as families, it is chance to be outside get fresh air, stay fit and have chance to chat. I remember certain walks we had as kids and ALWAYS they were the ones that my parents had come up with an idea to turn a sunday boring walk into an adventure. I remember hiding in the Welsh hills playing an uba game of hide and seek, or in France seeing who could roll a ball the furthest down a long country lane.... or the time we built a wig-wam out of sticks.

With our little bunch of DANGEROUS BOYS and a lots of horrible winter rain, we did a very simple idea at the local zoo. We used the book 'Dear Zoo' as our treasure map, so to speak. In the book a child asks for the zoo to send them a pet, but all the animals are not quite right. The boys saw the same animals that they usually see when they go and they walked the same route they have probably done many times, but with a different emphasis because today they were looking for the animals they have read in a book which brought it all to life.   

Tiger got very excited when a snake came to say hello to him and took the opportunity to show him where he appeared in his book!! The snake was very impressed but couldn't stop for long because he was off to have BabyCino before going to have a chat with a mate... Tiger consequently said good bye nice seeing you Nake!!

Feeding Time at the Zoo