Where’s Wally?

Jackie and I have just spent a week in Yorkshire with some friends form Church. We all had a fantastic time together and alone. We were staying near a place called Pickering.

Jackie and I spent some time walking around the moors, up and down the hills (of which there are none in Peterborough so we are not used to it!). We decided to go you a zoo and theme park one day, details can be found at www.flamingoland.co.uk.The theme park is great as it boasts both fantastic thrill rides and Wild Animals. We started our Day by going on all the massive rides – some made us feel a bit unwell but the others were great fun and I am glad we did not miss them, even with a 40 min queue for one of them. The first ride Jackie and I went on was a the motorbike ride – this looks like a long line of supper bikes, you sit yourself down and brace your self – the bikes zooooom off reaching speeds of 100Kph in under 3 seconds, WOW that's fast real quick. Standing in the Queue behind us was a lone man – I would say that he was in his late 30's to early 40's; he had a bit of a beard, some binoculars, a cap and a funny dress sense! Both Jackie and I were reminded of the guy called Wally in the well know cartoon stuff called where's Wally (if you don't know of Wally do a Google search – the picture is just what we saw!)

Later in the Zoo we took a look at the animals (well what else do you do in a zoo?) we saw some fantastic animals – some giraffes, Hippos, Zebra (more on them later!!!), Flamingo (would you have guessed that flamingo land had some real flamingo's?), and loads more – It really is great, I would go again!

One of the greatest sights I think wad the Siberian Tiger – It was in a massive cage – we could walk over it but best of all it had a glass wall to one side which meant we could get up close and nearly personal with eh beauty of the Tiger. As we were walking round the glass wall the tiger was there - I think he was trying to stare me out! He was eyeballing me – that is quite an experience.

We also saw the full size our African Spur's will grow to – they are our two new tortoises – BIG.

Well be sure to come back later when there will be some more of our stay up north!