My goal is to take a lot of little trips around England during our time here. I am certain that it will be time for us to leave before we realize it and many places that I would like to visit will be rushed or skipped altogether. So I had this great plan to take mini trips. However, Chuckolate's schedule makes my planning difficult and the weather and various minor illnesses have put a bit of a damper on them as well. I decided to just go for an overnight trip to see something fun. Many of our trips are to see old houses and gardens and historical types of places that the girls enjoy, but I wanted to plan something that they would really love. Sophia had received an invite to go to Woburn Safari Park with her Brownies group but the transportation costs made the ticket price more than double! Plus, I knew Tessa would like it and thought we could do it as a family trip for almost the same price as just Sophia. Well, before hotel costs, petrol, meals, hmmm, well, saving money isn't the entire point of the trip anyway!
On our first day we went to the other parts of Woburn, so that we could have a full day at the safari park, if we chose to stay that long. The deer park was interesting, although there wasn't anyplace to leave the car near the deer so we just stopped and watched them a couple of times from the car.
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| lots and lots of deer (9 different species in the park!) |
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| Woburn Abbey |
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| Hello? Anybody there? |
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| Tea/snack at The Duchess Tea Room |
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| Yummy scone with fresh raspberry jam and clotted cream! |
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| Mmmmm....... |
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| Scrummy! |
After tea, we went through the Woburn Abbey, home for 400 years to the Earls and Dukes of Bedford (including the current 15th Duke and his family). Photographs are not allowed inside, but it was a very interesting, fancy, old house. We followed along a specific route and the girls were given booklets with questions to answer on their way through the house. By answering each of the questions correctly, they were given a prize at the end! They had a second booklet of questions to answer while we went around the garden, although they weren't really interested in finding the clues by that point in time, so I found many of them and pointed them out to the girls.
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| This cute little building, "The Folly," was built as a playhouse for a child that lived there at some point in time. One of the girls' questions was how many spires are on the house. They loved that question, as they had to run around the house to count them all. |
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| Grumpy Tessa and Cheerful Sophia (someday Tessa will wish she could've hid her momentary unhappiness for more of my photos-oh well!) |
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| The Chinese Dairy |
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| Sophia and Tessa wanted a photo with each of them looking through one side of the glasses. |
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| I wanted one with each of them fully framed in one side. |
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| Then they just got silly! |
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| Sophia, Mommy, and Tessa on the bridge |
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| Closer! |
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| Tessa met a friend! |
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| Sophia found someone to share a book! |
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| Having a chinwag in the gazebo! |
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| Once again, a tree stump becomes a stage! |
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| Very very old tree! |
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| Sophia pets an eagle. |
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| Tessa rides a pig. |
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| Sophia tries to take a stick from a dog to play fetch! |
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| Tessa rides the dog, as well! |
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| Tessa with fields of daffodils |
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| Sophia and Tessa |
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| Sophia made an airplane out of leaves and twigs. |
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| Their prize was a butterfly mask! |
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