East Links Family Park...

Two days before going back to school, we spent the day at the nearby East Links Family Park. It has grown over the past few years from a small farm based visitor park, with some sheep and cattle and goats, to a much larger and extremely popular attraction, with lots and lots of things for children to do over the course of a day really. There are now many diverse types of animals, everything from Highland cattle, to deer and llamas. As well as the aniaml attractions, there's a great cafe and plenty of things like trampolines and go-karts as well as different park areas, all designed to keep the children from getting bored.
We loved seeing and holding the baby chicks, ducklings and rabbits. There were goat kids bouncing and jumping around, which Sandy and Olivia both had great fun with.

Sandy on the go-karts at East Links.


Waiting for the train to depart, for the trip around the park...


A couple of friendly residents!


Feeding one of the deer.


Olivia is very interested in the chick!

Amazingly, the weather was again beautiful! Today, Tuesday- the day before I go back to work, there has been a shower of rain. This is the first rain we have had over the last two and a half weeks! For April in Scotland, that's an incredible statistic. On Sunday evening, when I went down to Newcastle to watch the speedway there, it was 22C at 6pm! No wonder there were loads of folk sitting outside pubs eating their evening meals...

The photos here were taken not with our usual Sony camera, but with my Motorola phone. For a 1 Megapixel camera, they're not too bad...