Well, once again our plans to visit Stonehenge were foiled. We are determined to make it there one of these days and were planning on going on Saturday. However, when we were looking at train schedules we learned that there were planned railworks interfering with the journey so that rather than a direct train from London we would have to do a train, then a bus, then a train, then a bus. No thank you! So we ended up at the zoo instead.

Our day at the zoo was lots of fun. The weather was beautiful and we were accompanied by Stephanie and Kyle. We had also finally purchased an umbrella stroller so we didn't have to carry Caleb the entire day (though he still spent plenty of time being carried by mommy or daddy). The downfall of the day was that there were some aspects of the zoo that were seriously lacking (ie: there were no elephants, bears, chimps, or many large animals such as that). However, we were still able to kill about 6 hours wandering around and even enjoyed highlights such as being in an open area with monkeys and seeing donkeys mating.

We started the day with the giraffes. After all, we figured that Caleb should see real life versions of the millions (okay, that's a little bit of an exaggeration) of stuffed giraffes that he has. The larger animals proved to be better entertainment for Caleb, as we had a difficult time getting him to direct his attention to the small creatures, unless they were actually moving. He always seemed more interested in whoever was talking to him or pointing to the animals.

Halfway through the day, Caleb made a friend of his own, though, that he showed more interest in than any of the other animals. This monkey's name is Qwon (he's from China) and he enjoyed the rest of the day with Caleb in his buggy.
It was a fun day and definitely a nice change of pace for the weekend. Caleb did brilliantly all day and was in good spirits throughout everything. I must say, however, that I look forward to going to the zoo when Caleb is older and better understands what is going on and can actually comment on the animals.

We ended the day with some tasty Cuban food before returning to Croydon just in time to bathe Caleb and get him in bed. It might not have been Stonehenge but it was probably more fun.

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