THE SAFARI PARK BIRTHDAY TREAT.

Emma and Lee took Poppy to the safari park today for her pre birthday treat. Lee arrived with Pops this morning on his bike so as to give Lily the dog a walk, then Emma arrived in the car to pick them up and head off to the safari park. The picnic was packed and off they went, with Poppy waving brightly at me.

The sun has been shining all day, which is good, but it has been a bit cooler than the last few days, which is good, for me anyway. I don`t cope well with the heat and the humidity. Graham arrived back from work and after a visit from my sister and brother in law who dropped round with birthday gifts for Poppy we headed off to get some chocolate buttons as I was in the process of making a cake for Poppys birthday. Graham needed some new gardening gloves and in one shop we tried we found a hobby horse for Poppy, an extra present for her birthday! When you press its ear you hear a galloping noise and then a neigh and a winny! Poppy will be thrilled with it tomorrow. It makes a strange shaped parcel now I have wrapped it up!

The cake is cooked and decorated, a chocolate hedgehog. Hopefully Poppy will like it, she loves hedgehogs.

Emma, Lee and Poppy arrived at our house about 6pm to fetch Lily and nipped in for a quick cup of tea, just enough time for Poppy to get virtually all the toys out! We managed to pick up a dolls house in the charity shop yesterday for her to have in her playhouse and she was thrilled to bits with it. She was telling us all about her thrilling day at the safari park, apparently she saw a camel it stuck its head through the car window and licked her hand when she gave it some food. She was flapping her arms about apparently when it did it, but laughing at the same time. She saw an elephant with a big trunk, a rhino with a big bum, a giraffe which was very tall (demonstrated by Poppy standing on tiptoes and extending her arm above her head as far as she could, eyes wide with excitement), and she saw a lion which said "roar"! She was very excited and very chatty about her lovely birthday day out.

Poppy was getting tired after her busy day by almost 7pm so they headed off home, with Em saying she needs an early night as its her big day tomorrow. I don`t know who is more excited, Emma or Poppy! This is the photo Emma put on Facebook of Poppys presents, waiting for her to open in the morning. Gives it away somewhat, don`t you think?!!