Sophie loves Peppa pig and watches it every morning so when we saw Peppa was visiting Blenham palace we just had to take her to see the attraction. Boy was it busy and really we should not have been surprised, this was our first ever trip to see something like this.
We turned up to Blenham which i have to say wasn't that well sign posted and the entrance was also badly posted to anyone could have easily driven past it, and we would have if we hadn't of been driving at 10 mph, we parked up and the guys employed to directed traffic were either young guys or old men and none of them seemed the slightest bit interested in doing their job they all just stood there not even pointing as to where we should go, so we just headed in the direction we thought we should go and parked where we liked.
The whole Peppa Pig experience had been set to one area of the grounds and had a tea cup ride and a fair ground carousel with horses on, which we got Sophie very dizzy on the teacups and the carousel we felt was a bit of a rip off as it turned 3 times for £1.50. We headed to the walled garden that was sectioned off for Peppa and George and there was a big straw bale ring rammed full of adoring little fans and their parents and poor ol Peppa and George having to make endless circuits to say hello. As you will see from these pictures it was a hot day and i mean HOT so i really felt for the poor guys that were probably paid minimum wage inside those suit, although we were glad to see they changed the suit wearer every so often.
Sophie could not believe her eyes when she saw Peppa and George and was so excited and happy when they were on the far side of the ring and looked small, but as they moved round the ring and got bigger and finally reached her she had a massive change of heart and was really very scared. Poor little thing, we ended up taking her away and giving her strawberry cable from a stall that was conveniently placed right next to Peppas ring and she had spied and duly proved how tough she was by trying to tear it in bits.
After this we headed to another garden that had a hedged maze in and daddy and Sophie had fun going in and getting lost and trying to find their way out again. We discovered a small model village and Sophie enjoyed looking through the little windows and feeling big and brave again against such small houses. Finally we headed to the butterfly house which was dismal we saw 5 finch's and 5 butterflies and the butterflies weren't that interesting looking which was a real shame as we were hoping to see so much better here. The day was ok but not the one of the best we have had, i think our expectations were probably higher than what we got and we may go back one day to look around the house when Sophie is older and more patient.
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