'gators and porcupines and otters and more!

Mum and Dad came up for my birthday weekend and on the Saturday we went to Thrigby Hall Wildlife Park. None of us had ever been before and it turned out to be really good. It's not a huge zoo but they have some really interesting animals. My favourites would probably have to be the alligators and the porcupines, mostly because I'd never seen either of them in real life before but also because they were amazing. Everything was really good though. It's animals. Animals are good. We walked round almost all of it, stopped for lunch then went back to our favourites. It's a really good size for a day out, you get to spend a good amount of time with everything. A lot of the enclosures have really good high walkways and stuff so you get really good views of the animals. The tigers sit on a ledge right next to you which is incredible.



The video is pretty much unedited clips from the day and has some pretty good otter play and a 'gator blink and I also have a lot of photos for you to scroll through if you'd like :)







































Animals being kept in zoo's can be a bit of a worry but this one seemed pretty good and knowing that the ticket prices go into various conservation projects is a good feeling. We also heard how the male snow leopard was found in the wild with his injured mum and they both would have died if they hadn't been brought into captivity which I know not everyone would agree with doing but I like that he still exists.

Pride and My Birthday!!!!!

It seems like aaaaaaages ago but I started the week (or last week, or something, I'm uploading this later than normal so who knows) with Norwich pride. I'd had a leg tattoo the day before so I didn't want to be up and about on it too much but I went for the march and I'm glad I did. It's a good feeling to be a part of something that is still so important but also Pride is a good time ^_^







I re-greened my hair and didn't wear gloves then made my dad a card out of glitter paper and I liked how it looked kind of alien. I also made some more bracelets. I'd had a couple of pastel ones I'd made for a while but I recently got the same beads but bright and finally sat down and used them.



Then it was my birthday!!!! Will decorated the living room all fancy with lots of confetti and we went in to the city basically just to eat various things then came home and ate more things. It was a good time and I am now officially old (─‿‿─)







Will's family got me some really nice presents off of my amazon list, I'm pretty excited to try the origami kit that only has japanese instructions.



Will secretly saved up for ages and bought me a new 2ds xl and I cried and it turned out that he'd got me Animal Crossing to play on it and it's even more adorable than I could have hoped. Buying things isn't what makes you happy but getting to a place where it's possible to occasionally buy things like this is such a strange feeling of overwhelmed relief and fear lol.
There aren't really that many things that I want but not having them can kind of make me feel a little detached from the world. I don't if that makes sense or just makes me sound super consumery and shallow but it can be hard to not have things you know you'd really love and be inspired by and to be able to start having some of these things feels really nice. We've worked very hard for it. I also got some birthday money which I can't wait to spend on some of the creative people I follow online
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Will decorated a cake for me too, ain't it pretty?!