Another Day Out

This morning we headed on base since I had to check the mail to see if the swing and the girls' school uniforms had come in...they did! I was excited. Dan then mentioned how he wanted to go on a little road trip and check out a bird pet store...I was like okay not really wanting to go but we did. So off we headed to Leicestershire to check out this bird pet store. It was about an hour away but what else were we going to do? Sit around the house?

We got there and it was quite a small store but the people were oh so nice and talked our ears off. We almost bought an African Gray, which is the other kind of bird we want, and the store had a 12 week old one that was oh so cute with such a cute personality. It's so BIG compared to our little Senegal though...kind of intimidating but the bird was like a puppy. We got to talking to them and they told us about this tropical bird garden just down the road so we could look at the different kinds of birds and get an idea of other options. So we headed to this place that was 10 minutes away, ate at their tasty cafe and then walked around looking at the birds. It was so unlike any other bird place I've been to....they let a lot of the birds out of their aviaries and they just fly around....they stay since they are trained.....and you feed them nuts. They would say hello which the girls loved and some landed on people's heads which luckily didn't happen to us. They had a whole bunch of African Grays and the girls were able to feed them and enjoy themselves. We also saw some baby birds in their hatchery....so ugly and yet so cute. Unfortunately I didn't bring my camera since I thought we were just going on base....but it was a fun day doing something different. And...we finally found a bird stand for Toby to put in Dan's office.