1. There's an entire forest just an hour's drive away from my front door and
2. THERE'S A GRUFFALO IN IT!
When I saw a picture of he of the terrible teeth and terrible claws on IG posted by lovely Katie I thought, we are SO GOING THERE.
Unfortunately the day we chose to visit it rained. All. Day. Absolutely poured. Proper wet rain, relentless rain, the kind of rain that could totally ruin a lovely day out with friends.
Only it didn't, because GRUFFALO!
Alice Holt is stunning. It took my breath away, and the enormous, ancient firs kept the rain at bay too. I couldn't stop thinking how lovely it would be to come back one non-soggy day and just spend the whole day exploring.
As it was, we spent a good few hours with our intrepid, drenched-to-the-bone-but-couldn't-care-less children, soaking (literally) up the beauty and the adventure of the place. Despite Cherry's face in some of these pictures (that girl KILLS me) all the children adored it.
The light was magical and everything looked so green - the joy of summer rain. In fact it was so magical Cherry was a little put out that the Gruffalo himself wasn't a real Gruffalo.
Silly old Cherry. Doesn't she know?
Welcome to #MyCapturedMoment!! I know what you mean about Instagram, I'm totally obsessed too. These shots are great, it does look like you had a pretty damp day but you do also look like you all had a lot of fun. Thank you so much for linking up to #MyCapturedMoment xxx
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