Our trip to the zoo

Our trip to the zoo
Originally uploaded by Ella's Ma.

Daddy has been off work for the last two weeks. It's called holidays. So we did loads of stuff. Nana Kathleen was here and she minded us a lot while Mammy & Daddy went to boring tile shops. One time Ella stayed at home while I went with them - lucky her!

When we came back, Ella led an expedition to Airfield to get us all in the mood for animals - luckily we did that before the zoo because even the shetland foal wouldn't have seemed so exciting afterwards. Ella brought some bread too and threw it all in to the chickens and ducks who got very excited over it. I thought some of them were going to fly over the fence so I stayed well back in my pram.

There is a new baby elephant at the zoo. I've never even seen a big elephant and neither has Ella because the other times she was there, they were building the elephants a new house so they must have all been at a different zoo for a while. Building their house took even longer than fixing up our house.

And just after they moved back in they got a new baby. Like me, only a whole lot bigger and nowhere near as cute. There were lots of people there to see them but Ella got a really good view on Daddy's shoulders. You can't see the baby elephant eating because, like me, she can't have any real food yet. I'm getting pretty hungry with just milk now though. While we were there, they had showers and went for a swim and ate apples and generally performed very well for the crowd.