Santa spent the first hour, in the park, hanging around with the chimpanzees, until it got dark. So far so good … the safari continued to a picnic in the wood. Santa had a pair of binoculars, that helped him to see, exactly what animals were trying to eat his tasty tea ! He sat down on a table, underneath a pylon, then jumped up with a start, when he heard the hiss of a python. Fortunately, the snake crawled away towards the lake – Santa wondered was it real or fake ? Santa had brought sandwiches, biscuits and some lemonade, then headed off in the direction of the cheetahs, to see what trouble they made. As he started to munch, Santa heard a crunch .. the turtles and tortoises had joined them for lunch !
He took a journey on the zoo buses and viewed the octopuses.Santa admired the sea – lions, being paraded by the pool. He particularly liked the way that the dolphins flipped – which he thought was really cool ! Luckily, the zoo – keeper had handed Santa a map – so he didn’t get lost. As he followed the trail, he saw a whale, and treaded footprints around the zoo, along the path in the frost. Naturally, because he lived in Christmasland, a North Pole habitat, Santa preferred a preferred the animals from icy climates rather than the primates. But he was interested in seeing a very ferocious jungle pole cat ! Then suddenly, Santa heard a screech : it was a shark on the beach. To save them from danger, Santa made a Christmas wish … then in a SPLASH, as quick as a flash, it turned into a fish.
There were lions and tigers, pandas and giraffes – the trip that Santa got a ticket to the zoo as a present, turned out to be a bundle of laughs ! Santa had not had this much fun in ages, especially when the zebra licked his ice – cream from inside one of the cages ! The butterfly display really took Santa’s breath away – their wings were pretty extra – ordinairy (Santa would have to remember to show the photographs to the Christmas fairy).
Whilst away from home, what Santa wanted most, was a “Wish You Were Here ?” keepsake that he could post to Gerome the Gnome, to say they were having a great time on the coast. He bought a souvenir of the zoo as they shopped : a plop that a prehistoric dinosaur elephant had accidentally dropped ! Might not seem much to help remember, a once in a lifetime trip to the zoo, until the following December. So Santa put the fossil into a museum, much admired by Frosty the Snowman and the elves, when they came to see him. In fact, the journey to the zoo had been such a memorable trip, Santa brought back a number of the animals, which all around Santaland did skip. The tigers helped Rudolph pull his sleigh and the zebra was in the pantomine (a donkey in the nativity play).
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