Last week was one of those weird lovely weeks where time seems to stretch out (in a pleasant way). The Goblin had the whole week off. On Friday he woke up and decided he had to go to the zoo so we drove down to Colchester. The zoo is a nice size for people who don’t want to walk miles (that would be us). He particularly loves seeing the lions, tigers and elephants. I love seeing the little monkeys, though I find it impossible to pick a favorite animal; even hyenas are cute in their own mutant way. I took my little camera, thinking I’d take some shots of me and the Goblin, but managed to get several shots of the animals. The sky was overcast (it started to rain just as we left) but that lovely dull slate gray English sky provided the perfect backdrop to my favorite photos of the day…a rogue flamingo that just happened to be preening itself directly underneath a pedestrian bridge…I wish I’d had our bigger camera…I could have stood there for hours watching the flamingo…the bright pink against the gray water…lovely! I had to share my favorite pictures.
The lemurs...if I had to have a tail I'd want a black and white striped one! 
"When I get the energy I'm escaping this hell hole..." 
Earlier in the week at the beach I tried to take an anniversary photo...
The last photo was the cutest. Happy Aniversary goblin and cari you both look like two truant school kids cutting class. May you have many more and thanks for sharing with us I do so enjoy your photos and comments.
@Victoria
Thank you! We had a lovely anniversary week. I think we’re probably a little too much like truant school kids. Being grownup is so weird! Not that I’m complaining. Every now and then I’ll have one of those awful dreams where I’m back in high school and I can’t remember which class I’m supposed to be in or the combination for my locker and I’m late (a little too real for comfort) and I wake up and sigh in relief…that nightmare is over…unless I go back to University…just to torture myself…maybe I’ll just keep writing romances. (At least that logic professor I had who thought I was an imbecile must be dead by now…I’m sure he passed me just so he wouldn’t have to see me again! He’d make a good villain!!!!)