Three Bears go to Dinosaur Island

As I mentioned in my previous post, we had a long train journey (two train journeys, in fact) to visit Grizzly's grandcubs recently. 

While we were staying at their house, as well as playing with their toys and seeing some of our furry friends from our previous visits, we went with them to Dinosaur Island.

When the human cubs said where we were going, the smaller bears were afraid we would be eaten by real dinosaurs.  I remembered the dinosaur statue in the centre of the village.

'I'm sure there won't be real dinosaurs there!' I said to Hanley and Endon.  'Or, if there are, they will be nice ones that won't eat us.  After all, they haven't eaten the human cubs.'

'The human cubs are bigger than us,' Hanley replied.  'Just because they haven't been eaten, it doesn't mean we won't be!'  Endon and I agreed he had a point and so we told Polar and Grizzly we wanted to stay indoors and play with the Lego instead. 

'There are no real dinosaurs there,' Polar assured us.  'It's an adventure playground and they boys really want you to come with us.'  We trust Polar, so we agreed to go, but you can imagine how frightened we were when we reached the park and the first thing we saw was a big, brown dinosaur!

'Agh!' cried little Endon.  'It's a Triceratops.  I bet it eats small bears!'

'No, it eats plants,' Hanley Bear answered, knowledgably.  'I'll show you it's nothing to be scared of.'  He scrambled out of our bag and ran towards the dinosaur.

'Careful it doesn't bite you, or stab you with one of those horns!' I called out.

Hanley Bear climbed up and stood on the horn above the triceratop's nose.

'Wow Hanley!' said Endon.  'You're such a brave bear!'

'Not really,' Hanley replied.  'It's made of wood!'

Hanley was right.  There were other dinosaurs all around the park, with human cubs climbing all over them, but none of them were roaring or biting, because they were all wooden!  

We were very relieved.  We watched Grizzly's grandcubs playing with their friends, climbing and sliding and even flying through the air on a zip-wire.  Hanley and Endon went to play hide-and-seek with the cubs.  I had to look the other way while they found places to hide, then help to find them. 

When it was time for snacks, they shared their Bear chews with us and gave us the cards from inside the wrappers, because they are very kind human cubs.

We were sad when it was time to go home, as Dinosaur Island had been lots of fun, but when we got back to their house, we remembered there were lots of other fun things to do when we're visiting Grizzly's grandcubs, like playing table football, building Lego things and running in the garden.

And we get cub hugs too!