Marie's Web Log

We were lucky, yesterday was a beautiful sunny day. When the air warmed up in the afternoon, it must have been about 12 or 15 Celsius. We drove down to Paignton Zoo, where we met our friends Sarah and Dan and their children Abi and Asher. We all had a great time walking around (or in the childrens' case, running) looking at the animals. It's a good zoo, a bit like the one in Toronto but smaller, with open enclosures instead of cages. They have a lot of various types of monkeys - it seems to be their specialty - but we also saw tigers and lions and elephants and giraffes (and kangaroos, though only from afar). We ended up spending all day there.

On the way home, Amelia had a sleep in the car, then we had her birthday cake and opened the rest of her gifts. We and Ian's parents gave her a wooden kitchen from the great shop called the Early Learning Centre - it's a compact unit of oven, sink, shelf and places to hang things. I'll paste in a photo from their website below. She loves it, and also her play food, toy birthday cake, more doll's house furniture, Barbie doll outfits, puzzles, stickers and books, and food shopping game. Thanks everyone! What's left to give her for Christmas?

Child models having fun with Amelia's kitchen.