There's a monkey on our car!

In another one of our "we must see everything possible before we move even though it's freezing outside" weekends, we headed to the Wolburn Safari Park. This is one of those drive-through zoos and we thought we were being so smart. We'll be nice and warm inside our car while we see all the animals! Plus we heard there was an indoor playground. Great! Sign us up! What we didn't realize is the drive through part is only part of the zoo, and when it's foggy (which of course it was) large portions of it are closed... which they were. There is a pretty large outdoor zoo part, which was really too cold to enjoy. Unfortunately the huge indoor playground was like as far away from the warm car as possible... so we were nearly frozen before we got there. But when we did... we had a blast! The slides were awesome!

After they playground... we thought (mistakingly again) that it must have warmed up a little bit by now and we could enjoy the train ride. Ummmm. No. Just look at how much he is enjoying it!

And that little blob of blanket inside E's coat. The nearly frozen baby. Mother of the year I am not.

After almost getting frost bite on the train... we headed back to the car to thaw our extremities. By now the fog had lifted slightly, and part of the drive through safari was open. Luckily for us it was the best part... the monkeys! They were climbing all over all the cars. The boys thought this was HYSTERICAL! (Frankly, so did E and I...)

We all kept hoping one would eventually end up on our car... And one did!

He started out on the hood (bonnet), hung out there for a while and eventually made his way to the top of the van. He was there for a really, really long time! And because he was on the top, we couldn't see him! The only way we knew he was still there was because we could hear him walking around a bit... and all the people in the other cars were driving by and pointing! So fun! We finally had to start driving very slowly to sort of encourage him to get down.