Monkey See, Monkey Do

Can't really say that we have done a great deal of exciting things over the last few week. Time seems to have been spent drinking cups of tea and eating cake in various locations such as my Nan's, Barton Grange and The Potting Shed in Bolton-Le-Sands, most of which with Gabi and Logan, or finishing off the Christmas shopping. I am pleased to say that all my presents are wrapped and ready to go under the tree :)

On the 19th however, I went on my first night out since pre-pregnancy. Not exactly an adventure with Louie but worth a mention non-the-less. The evening was spent with a collection of fabulous girl friends that I have made along the way ready to 'wet Louie's head' as such. The boys get to do it, so why shouldn't we? Having drunk a large amount of wine in The Sun Hotel we made our way to some other establishments....one of which being Yates's. It even bugs me that they put an apostrophe S after their name - that's not correct grammar! Yates's consists of ever trollop in town wearing next to nothing (see girl in the background wearing gold in the photo below), dancing on the poles, a permanent fixture in Yates's...Classy, for free bottles of 'Champagne'. I use the word Champagne loosely as I am 99% certain that it will not have been made in the Champagne region of France. More like Chateau de Shit! All in all this place is a shit hole where you are likely to catch an STI just by touching a door handle, but for old times sake, as I was out with some of my original drinking buddies from way back when, we took part in a chavvy drink of VK and took in all that was going on around us. Then I demanded that we left to go somewhere more suitable!

After more wine in Dalton Rooms, singing along to some decent music and a cocktail in Revolution we all decided that we had had enough and set about heading home at 12:15! Shocking I know, what is wrong with us all. We had been out since 7:30pm though and a hangover and a baby don't mix well so that was it. Can't say I miss going out in town but it was great to spend the evening with the girls child free!

As Ste is off at the moment we went on adventure up to South Lakes Wild Animal Park yesterday which was bloody freezing, slightly wet but lots of fun. Louie was wrapped up snugly in his snow suit ready to see the animals.

Upon arriving at the zoo we were greeted by a very elegant monkey balanced on a pole practising some ballet moves (or so I'd like to think). The good thing about here is that a lot of the animals are allowed to run about freely so this allowed for me to get some really nice, close up pictures of the little critters. They were all so tame and used to people watching them, but not touching to my disappointment as they will evict you from the park if you do!

If you go in the afternoon you can watch the tigers, lions and jaguars being fed, which sounded fun but I was slightly disappointed that there wasn't much action. The meat is balanced at the top of the pole and the cats climb up to grab it and chow down. They were all absolutely beautiful, even when gnawing through the bones of the carcass that they were munching on. The tigers that are at this zoo are Sumatran and apparently these are only about 300 left in the world - poor buggers :(

All in all a fun day out that I would recommend to anyone, especially as its free for visitors until February!