Day 5 - Blair Drummond Safari Park

A wishing well with no money in?

 Wednesday 28th July 2010

Josh woke up and demanded that he had had enough of geocaching and wanted a break. Mr and Mrs Shiltonpig broke down in tears at such heresy, how could we have raised a 2 year old to say such terrible things. Geocaching must be done every single day, and as often as possible!!! Anyway once we calmed down we realised that we could trick Josh into doing some caching with the reward of doing something he wanted for a change. So we dragged him out of bed and drove him to a garage

Future Steve Irwin?

 to get some breakfast. This particular garage had a surprise up its sleeves...the best oatcakes you have ever eaten in your entire life. Yum Yum. We then drove on the A84 to complete a cache by a bird bath by a graveyard.....I would like to point out something that I have mentioned before. Geocachers love graveyards...I am not sure why but they do. This was just one of many caches completed by graveyards this holiday. After this it was a very short drive to the safari. For more information of this park click here...go on you know you want to.  Josh of course was in his element here, not because of the animals but mainly due to

Live long and prosper

 the large amount of toys that they had available. Josh will one day be an extreme geocacher junkie, we have no doubt. Josh isn't interested in the slides and normal play parks designed for his age. He wants to go on all the rides designed for th 13-16 year olds. After prizing him off the rides, the first animal we took him to see was a sea lion. Josh shouted "whale" at the creature, partly because Josh loves whales, in all there forms. He even has a cuddly toy whale in his cot and "Finding Nemo" is his favourite film. I am sure we are not the only parents to get weary of watching films 100s of times. The sea lion show was a great success and probably provided Josh his happiest moment of the day....no not watching the sea lions....just the fact he was able to join everyone clapping. Its the first time any of team Shiltonpig have been to a safari park and we have to say that this place is an excellent day out for the whole family. The whole place has been designed with the family in mind...even a whole section where you can have a BBQ. Just a shame it is so far away from where we

Josh looks happy

 live (about 100,000,000 miles away at the last check). Oh and we can't understand a word half of them are saying due to the accent.
Further to Josh enjoying fish, whales and other sea type things...it is no surprise that when he saw the boat trip, he went mental. Problem was there was a 20-25 minute wait to get on the boat and he just couldn't wait to get on the boat....and when he was on there...guess what he couldn't wait to get off. Kids!!!
Josh has another worrying trend....perhaps its our fault for introducing him to a "sport" which is classed as a little geeky, but he seems to really love (hold

where does he get his love of tractors from?

 your breath) tractors. I am so worried that we may have to take him to a counsellor....we can't have him growing up to be a country bumpkin, eating straw in the corner of his mouth and driving a tractor all day. Personally I blame Mrs Shiltonpigs side of the family! Other highlights included doing a safari drive in our car....Mr Shiltonpig showed his rebellios side when he left his window down when they entered the lion section. The ranger came over to tell him off....but it was too late they had eaten all the biscuts and oatcakes (they must have heard we had been to that garage earlier). Mrs Shiltonpig would like to point out that one of her best bits was the baby

The Original Shilton"pig"

 rhino ( no we are not talking about Josh). Mr Shiltonpig would like to point out that one of his best bits was the pot bellied pig (no we are not talking about Mrs Shiltonpig). Josh would like to point out the best bit was seeing the whale (even though he didn't actually see one and it was a sea loin, but who are we to ruin someones dreams?). Blair Drummond Safari Park would like to point out that the best bit was when we left as they had never met a famly like us before! Until tomorrow my dear reader(s)...until tomorrow

Watch out they have escaped!!!!