Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Yorks Wild Animal Kingdom

The day dawned bright and beautiful....for the first time in over a week! We were off to the animal park under a cloudless sky! I dressed the kids in matching colored shirts to make it easier to find them....We went with Amelia's Girl Scout Troop and met most of them there. This is the group that we toured the park with...hand in hand through the parking lot...Ladies and Gentlemen.... The Seven Dwarfs!! In front, Amelia, Bailey, Acacia and Cady. Followed by Quinn, Brandon and Nathan.
Wait, Nathan! That is not a real Zebra! (Thank goodness! Check out where his thumbs are! Yup! Right in the nostrils. Boys!)Once we got there, we checked the map...
And we needed a plan of attack....We decided to start out spying on the Nubian goats...but they caught on to us pretty quickly...
Nathan found a caterpillar. If you know Nathan, you know that he can find a caterpillar anywhere!
We got to see them release the white tiger into its large enclosure...We fed the regular everyday goats...
Nathan got to pet a boa constrictor....

And who would have thought that they would have deer just wandering the path. We were not allowed to touch the fuzz on their antlers (we were sorely tempted...it looked so soft!) One of the deer was much smarter than the rest and was cleaning out the inside to the machine that you put quarters in to get the little pellets to feed them. He was nosing the little metal covering up and giving little snakey-licks.

(Just so you know, I went through an ENTIRE bottle of hand sanitizer while there.)

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