It was August Bank Holiday Monday and it was dull and we hadn’t made any plans. Olivia is a child that needs to be out of the house all of the time or she will go insane (this is why we have to walk for hours and I am losing weight quickly).
Tom came up with the bright idea of jumping in the car and shooting over to Knowsley Safari Park to go and have a nosey at the animals. Quick mad dash to pack sandwiches and get the bag ready and off we went.
As we got to the Knowsley Express Way the heavens well and truly opened. There was a minute of talking about going home as we weren't sure what it would be like in a downpour. We carried on driving and there was a queue of people to go in so we decided to go for it and we were so glad that we did.
The rain didn’t stop but it turned into normal rain rather than the monsoon we had driven through. The only animals that weren’t playing were the tigers who were clearly smart animals and were were sleeping in their house, ask Olivia she will tell you about the sleeping tigers.
I remember I went to the safari park when I was a child but don’t really remember much about it. As an adult I loved it!
Save for the tigers the other animals were all within sight for Olivia to have a look at. I have to admit that for the first 15 – 20 minutes she was more fascinated by the grass, rain, puddles and her reflection in the window haha.
But she soon started to enjoy it when there were birds walking between cars, the lions were right by the side of the road that you could probably have stroked them if you were stupid enough to dare to try it and the monkies were playing on the cars.
I thought Tom would have taken us through the monkey safe zone to protect his car but he took his aerial off and we got close and personal with a monkey. They were very well behaved but that was probably because they were trying to warm up using the engines so not wanting to destroy their heat providers. Friends went not long after us on a sunny day and had their wipers broken so maybe the wet weather is a good time to go!
After we had driven around we got to other attractions, I don’t remember them being their when I was a child. Thankfully the rain had stopped at this point so we got to keep dry. We had lunch and we have a fabulous pic of Will looking very surprised at something, I think he was excited that he might actually be getting some real food, hard luck dude.
We then went to the bat house which made me freak out a bit, I didn’t like it and Olivia wouldn’t go in without me as she wanted both Mummy and Daddy that day.
We then went to look at the Meer cats which Olivia loved. One was stood at the top of a tree and Tom was explaining to her that he was the look out and that if he saw danger then he would shout to the other Meer cats, she was clearly listening with great interest as she keeps telling us that the Meer cats shout :) Tom also got his car insurance through Compare the Market so we got a Meer Cat that arrived a couple of days later, perfect!
Tom then took Olivia on the choochoo train yaaaay. Olivia loves trains so she was loving this adventure with her Daddy. Will and I waited at the platform for them although will was asleep so just missed it all.
After their return from the train ride we went on the hunt for a ‘raffe for Olivia. Following the foot prints we made our way over to the giraffe house and Olivia loved it, even though it did smell which was something I did know about giraffes. After watching them for a while we walked up to see the elephants.
Then it was time to go home, booo. It really was a fabulous day out and I would thoroughly recommend it to everyone. We can’t wait to go back when Will is old enough to join in and I can play on the train too :)
museum was fab from what I saw. We arrived just as the Little Liverpool play session was starting. Olivia and Cameron seemed to like that a lot and spent most of the time fishing. I missed most of the museum as Will has hungry so we went off to have a feed. 
It was brilliant time and Olivia is still singing Happy Birthday Mummy xx