Forest of Broken Dreams

So K and I decided to have an afternoon off on Friday as both of us were going to be working over the weekend. After much umming and ahhing over what to do, my mind drifted back to the old days of working for Kerridge and I remembered that everyday I drove past signs to "The Living Rainforest" and thought how cool it sounded and longed to go there. BUT it isn't really JJ's thing and, until recent hypnotherapy, K was deathly afraid of spiders so didn't fancy it. Also, she isn't big on plants or animals (living up to her tagline "she's dead inside") but the only other thing she came up with was Gunwharf Quays and neither of us fancied that so rainforest it is! She the takes AGES to get here due to hitting the lunchtime rush in Guildford.

On the way, K wanted to stop at Asda for cheap petrol but I completely forgot until we were the next junction on. This really should have told us what our day was to be like. The signs to the Living Rainforest directed us to the middle of no where and we got there about 2.15 I would say.

Now, I suggest you go and look at the website, go on, looks pretty cool and professional, right? And you would expect some where with exhibits like this to be fairly extensive and slick huh? WRONG! It was tiny, with very few, poor exhibits. The animals were crammed into small cages. There was ONE spider, one lizard, one very cramped croc, several Goeldi monkeys in a reasonable-but still not as big as I would have though was good for them-sized cage (one of these really took to K, I think it recognised it own), 2 little 3 free flying birds and two gorgeous toucans. The giant water lilys weren't, the aquarium was so weed and algae filled it was hard to see anything in it, the amazon aquarium was very poorly kept up and all-in-all it was a bit heartbreaking and whats more we were done within about an hour. To be fair the animals themselves were gorgeous and did look like they were well fed and looked after, just not enough space. It add insult to injury we then decided to get ice creams in their shop and I choose a 99 flake - with the worst icecream I have EVER tasted!

So, we hatched a plan. We would head to head home to eat and book tickets to see a 3d show at the imax theatre in London. FANTASTIC IDEA! Except we get home and find that the IMAX is only showing Harry Potter all week. Hurmph! So we decide to go to cinema only everything that we want to go and see is completely booked out. Despair begins to take hold. SO, we then decide to get a video and some food and spend the evening at home. By this time, K has named this the day of despair and broken dreams.....

We head to Sainsburys and look at the DVD's there. They have a offer - 3 DVD's for £15 or £6.99 each AND one of those DVD's is the Tenacious D movie "PICK OF DESTINY"! So I HAVE to get that, it is the law.So now we pick Nanny McPhee as DVD number two and "over the hedge" as DVD number 3. However, in keeping with our day, Over the hedge is not in the offer, despite being £6.99. We choose another dvd and then, to cheer K up, go to get Yum yums. Unsuprisingly, they are sold out so we choose chocolate which, to avoid further doom leads us to choose a fun sized selection pack rather than a posh box of chocoys.

Heading home, we settled down to watch Tenacious D, which K is convinced will be Pants. We are both pleasureably suprised when, as we should have realised, IT ROCKED! One of the funniest films I have seen in a long time and then we started to watch it again with the commentary but I had a lot to do the next day so decided to head to bed. Kristy stayed up to watch it. "I'm the Devil, I like METAL!"