The best bit was the playground, apparently!

So we had our niece and nephew, Saffron and Sean to stay at the weekend. It was the first time we had had them both to stay when we have both been here (apparently they both stayed whilst I was in Canadia last year, with Tina even giving up our bed).

Figuring they would have a lot of energy (being kids and all that) we thought we'd take them to Whipsnade Wild Animal park, seeing as it just up the M1, so that's what we did. We spent about 6 hours wandering around the many acres, seeing many animals, like hippos and tigers and giraffes and penguins and bison and elephants and rhinos and monkeys and, and, and lots of other things. I've noticed that I haven't posted many pictures up recently, so here's some we took....