Christmas Adventures

After a quiet Christmas at home with Polar and Grizzly, watching Paddington films and reading books, we went to visit Grizzly's grandcubs and their family in Sussex.  As well as watching the younger cub beat Polar at foosball (several times!) and building space Lego, we joined the humans on a couple of very interesting visits.

Endon and I were chosen to visit Leonardslee Gardens to see the winter lights around the grounds.  We had hoped to visit something similar at Trentham Gardens, but had missed our chance, so it was a lovely treat when Grizzly's daughter booked this for everyone.

There were some wonderful illuminated creatures, like this dragonfly and owl, as well as flowers, stars and lights in the trees.

There were even illuminated Bears!

There was a huge illuminated Planet Earth, which looked as if was floating above the lake, and a huge Moon as well.  Both were quite magical and made us think about our special planet and how small and fragile it is compared to the huge Universe it's part of.

My favourite parts of the whole amazing show were the fountains, which changed shape and colour to music, and a huge field of giant flowers that changed colour too, which were Endon Bear's favourites.

   

The following day, Hanley and Huddlesford had a day out.  They went to Nymans, where there was a "Narnia" exhibition.  It was a misty day and the old ruined part of the house looked very spooky! 

The Bears didn't know all of the story, but they thought the moles' home looked very cosy - rather as we imagined Moley's home would look in The Wind in the Willows.

Huddlesford Bear found the gas light in the woods - only it was in one of the rooms.  And Hanley Bear saw the children tumbling out of the wardrobe into Narnia.

Then they sat on some thrones and pretended to be Kings of Narnia!

There was no snow, but it was damp and cold.  Despite that, they told Endon that the grounds had looked very nice as there were dogwood bushes with very bright stems.

When Hanley and Huddlesford got back to Grizzly's Grandcub's house, they sneaked upstairs and checked the backs of all of the wardrobes to see if there was any way out of any of them to another, magical world - but they didn't find anything.

"Never mind," said Hanley.  "I don't think I would like it much in Narnia, as they don't seem to have any oatcakes!"