Great Yarmouth Sealife Centre

A bit of a relaxed day today - off at Great Yarmouth ( a seaside resort closeby) to visit the Sealife Centre.

How cool are these?  Nope, I didn't know about them either..

Moon Jellyfish. They can only be seen under fluro lights - otherwise they are transparent.

Tiny Seahorses galloping around the fishtank

Morgan and Lilly playing round in the fishtank. ( there were plenty of hand on activities and places the kids could pretend that they were in the tanks with fish)

Bike riding round Ikworth Estate

With National Trust Passes, we have access to so many awesome places to visit. 

Ikworth House is still closed ( most aren't open till April) - however the grounds and gardens were open to visitors. We may come back at some point to visit the treasures and artworks inside, but for now, we were delighted to take advantage of the sunshine and the bikes to explore the estate.

I am so proud of the kids. It was only a fortnight before we left to come to the UK that they learnt to ride a bike by themselves. This was the longest ride either of them had done - and we even got a lesson in on how to use gears.

Their laughter and encouragement to one another up and down the hills was enough for me to know it was a good day to be alive. We were out riding ( and walking up bigger hills) for about two and a half hours. A pretty good work out, espec for prep for the Camnio.

I took about a billion photos of suffolk sheep and us riding thought fields, so will share just a few of them here. 

Wounded Lill

Its a shame that the bruising and swelling doesn't really come up on this photo, and as I write it now, poor little Lilly's foot is looking much worse for wear. ( see lower picture)

We went out on a walk along the fields earlier on with the dogs.  It is a bit of a challenge to take four dogs who aren't used to leads or walking with people on such an exciting adventure as this sort of trek; especially when two of them are bigger than the kids. 

With Spring bursting into life at every corner, we have pheasants flapping and jumping all over the place. One of them leapt out of hte ditch as we walked past, the dog Lilly was leading got far too excited and ploughed straight into Lilly and she went AOT.

Luckily we were close to a road, so I took three dogs home, leaving Morgan look after Lilly and one of them. It wasn't too far to drive back and grab her - but I then needed to carry her up a bunch of stairs and into a warm bath.. Its an at home day tomorrow with her foot up...