better than tv

After a long day of playing with their friends the girls fell asleep in the car on the way home.

"Phew", I thought, stupidly, for I should have learnt by now, "I can relax now, and just chuck them in bed, free of bedtime story reading for one night... (isn't reading stories tiring when you do it every night?)".

So, obviously, they woke up when we got home, as they always do, for I should have learnt by now, demanding more supper, more stories, more fun and more everything after that little refreshing half an hour sleep in the car. *Sigh*

But I had had a long day gossiping and tittle tattling and giggling so I wasn't up for reading any stories to wind them down. So, I fired up the computer and stuck them in front of this: http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/wildcamafrica/wildcam.html

And even at past ten at night, there are things stirring, wonderful noises of crickets and frogs, and unseen creatures crunching though the undergrowth.

And I had my own spectacle of two little girls absolutely enthralled by a watering hole in Africa, listening intently to the wonderful night noises of the Botswanan savannah, gasping with excitement at the sound of two hyenas laughing in the background or a frog plopping into the pond. Wonderful.

(thanks to zoe getting me into this webcam in Africa business, and JL for pointing out this one in zoe's comment box).