More from baking Lanzarote

Hello everyone.

We are all still very hot in Lanzarote.

Yesterday Daddy went to the volcanoes in Timanfaya National Park as he didn't think it was hot enough at the hotel! Later we walked to the marina when it was dark.

It was 39 Celsius today but we were brave and walked to the Rubicon Marina so Mummy could visit the market. After that we continued on to Playa Dorado and beyond. It was seriously hot after the market and we got the bus back rather than walk the whole way again.

Here are some photos:

Papayagayo Arena, Lanzarote

Hello all,We had a good flight and a decent journey to get here. I was very good the whole way. I got a bit cross when the captain of the aeroplane told us to put our seatbelts on for landing and I was in the middle of socialising with another munchkin behind, but I soon got distracted by he interesting view from the window.I have been so excited I just run and run, calling out and shouting.We have a nice room with a big, big bed so I can sleep with Mummy and Daddy....yay!I am trying all kinds of food and had a slice of pizza with some other nibbles at lunch today.

Trying to blog is a bit of an exercise in frustration but Daddy has managed to fudge it by using an iPod app that allows him to upload photos direct. He apologises if the size or layout of photos isn't ideal. My Dad does ok with computers and stuff but he comes from a time when there were real machines so he isn't the best!

New Car (again!)

Daddy went all the way up to Derby on Tuesday to get Mummy a new car. Well, it's not totally new but it's the second newest car he has ever bought as its from September 2011 and only had 5452 miles on it before he drove it home. This means I don't have to rely on Daddy to take me to my playgroups, so when he is at work Mummy can take me...yay!

I think Mummy is doing quite well here as she has had 2 nice cars in just over 2 years and Daddy has a car that is nearly 10 years old, which is much older than me! Daddy says she better be careful with this one.

It's very nice and really similar to the last one, except its slightly face lifted and is silver instead of blue. I like the i10. I will miss the old one as I used to travel in it a lot and it brought me home from hospital when I was new.

I took the new i10 for a quick test drive when Daddy got home and blasted the horn when daddy as at the front of the car.  He said his ears were ringing!

Black Belt

My Dad is ok he is, especially for quite an old bloke.

For nearly 4 years he has trained in Tae Kwon-Do and on Sunday 22nd April he did his black belt grading at TAGB headquarters in Bristol.  He has done 10 grading exams now and a lot of pre-gradings to get this far.  On Tuesday he found out he had passed...Yay!  He has now been presented with his 1st Dan belt, training suit and badges.

After wearing in his belt for a couple of weeks it will get sent off to have his name embroidered on it.

When I grow up a bit I want to do Tae Kwon-Do too.

Farmer Palmer's again!

Its been a bit of a few weeks not having a second car, so Daddy has taken me to some of my playgroups before work this week.

He has ordered Mummy another Hyundai i10 to replace our nice little car that got crashed.  I miss Mummy's car.  When I play with a toy car now I sometimes turn it over and say "boof" to show it has crashed!  Daddy should collect it on 1st May.  Its a slightly revised model of the same specification and is silver rather than blue.

Anyway, I was so lucky because I got taken to Farmer Palmer's again today.

All the animals were still there but the piggies have grown up a bit.  Today I had a tractor ride too and it was very bumpy.  I held a guinea pig, fed the goats, petted the piggies, a donkey, a cow and a horse.  I fed some chickens too.  I was a bit confused when a goat with 6 legs and 2 heads went past!  Daddy said it would be even harder to explain that when I was older.

Anyway, here are the photos!

This big turkey was chasing a lady turkey and looked a bit cross with us

This is the huge Daddy piggy of the baby ones.  He has big teeth that stick out

I was a monkey throwing straw about in the straw barn

Playing with Mummy's hair is fun too!

This is what I do when I see an aeroplane

Here I am on the tractor ride

I loved feeding the chickens but they did peck my fingers a bit

Mummy and Daddy had a cup of tea while I raced about on a tractor

I wore the piggies out again and they went to sleep

Here I am with a friendly piggy rubbing himself on the step

The pony made me jump when it snorted but I was so curious I had to keep going back

Here I am with Carl the guinea pig

Farmer Palmer's in the Easter Holiday

Mummy has wanted to take me to Farmer Palmer's near Organford, Wareham for a while now and Daddy took us all there today.

What a great place!  I was in my element all day.  They had a big barn full of interesting farm animals and pets in lovely clean straw.  At different times they let me hold a guinea pig, pet some baby piggies, bottle feed some baby goats and pet some lambs.  The piggies were awesome...so friendly, but their mummy was huge and quite ugly, but I wasn't scared of her.  I was a bit wary of the ponies and the calves when they came to close though!

I also got to ride on some toy tractors and play on slides in the straw barn.  We had a nice lunch in the cafe too.  It was very busy so there wee lots of children to play with.

One of my favourite things was a sheep in the outside pens, whom I definitely made friends with.  I was picking grass and feeding it to him through the fence and he ate straight out of my hand.  I did that for ages and he even reached over the top of the fence to get to me.

I was very excited and running flat out from just after 10am when we got there to about 3.30pm when we left.  Therefore I fell asleep ins seconds in Daddy's car on the way home.

This is mummy piggy and she is huge

The baby piggies are more my size

After playing with us they must have been tired as they all went to sleep

The goats nibbled Daddy's shorts and the plastic bag!

I'm a clean boy and washed my hands all by myself after petting the animals

This is my super friendly sheep

I really have the hang of this feeding!

I know a donkey lives here!

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