Wildlife Safari

We went to see the Wildlife Safari two days ago--what fun! It's about an hour away and definitely worth the trip. We got there just after it opened at 9 am and there was NO ONE there. We had the whole place to ourselves. I love having kids who aren't in school yet.

Here's an enormous porcupine! They have a huge "zoo" area where the kids can see snakes, bugs, birds, monkeys, lemurs, etc. They also have a cougar, etc. It was wonderful... It lets the kids run around and they even have a playground.

I forgot to mention--there's a petting zoo. It has deer, goats, ponies and a llama.

This is a llama. I touched him several times and THEN saw the sign warning he might spit. Great. (I didn't get spit on though, yay!)

My little goat...

Guess Dora can't speak Parsel Tongue. Oh well...

Obviously we're having fun.

Okay, by far the coolest part was the Safari at the end. They have Africa, America and Asia--which basically covers every cool animal there is. We saw lions and tigers and bears, oh my. These giraffes walked right by our car. Literally, I could have touched one. They let you keep your windows open, but you aren't supposed to get out. Dora was ENTRANCED.

Yes, that is a Big buffalo drinking that girl buffalo's pee. EWWWW. Maybe we were a bit too close. We actually had to sit here because a baby buffalo decided to camp out in front of our car.

This is to show you how close you are to the animals. That's the icky pee drinker by Whit.

These bears may have been the coolest thing. Being inches from a cougar and a lion was neat, but they were just walking. These bears were play fighting. It was NEAT.

See the grizzly bear?

See how close we were??

Whit shot this one for you, Haven. Haha.

This little guy poked his head in our car. We had to hurry and put the windows up.

Wow, I thought cheetahs were smaller!!

We got to see the tiger show--the trainer was doing tricks with him when we drove past. NEAT.

Did this make any of you want to come see us?? We'll definitely be going again soon. NEAT.