Labor Day: Wild Animals

We went to the wild animal park and got to all cram into our van to drive through the drive through parts. On the walking part, we got to see them feed the bears and the wolves. It was awesome. And somehow seeing those wolves so close gave me a whole new perspective on Jacob (from Stephanie Meyer's Twilight books)...wow...check out our wild animals as they look at the other wild animals.

Oh-and here we are crammed in the van.

Birthday Fun: Animals...

Well, mom was kinda frustrated today because nothing really went as she had planned. We were going to go to the zoo, but it was busier than we have ever seen it-there was not even anywhere to park in the stadium parking-it was insane!!!! So, we decided to go ahead and drive out to the wild life safari. That is a cool place that you drive through and see lots of free roaming animals like elk, bison, deer, birds, wolves & bears. It was fun-we loved it and it was fun, fun fun for A's birthday!! Here are some of our fun pics...

A & dad look at elk S in car
E in car-ever the comedian...
Look how close!
Turtle mom and babies...
Elk herd
This guy was close, and he was eyeballin' us...

Beauty!

Looking at bears-dad appears to be bored...
Bear 1
Bear 2
Posing...sorta...A is actually throwing rocks in the stream...

S making A pose.

Cute, cute, cute...(& dad) ;)
B-day boy!!
Bison-look at the baby!! Mom loves the babies...
The only pronghorn we saw today...
Bison crossing right in front of us.

CLOSE & HUGE!!
So, there was this "blond bison" as the kids called him, and the kids lovingly called that the "Armour Bison" Following is the picture of Armour's blond hair and the blond bison so you can see just how well they matched! :)
This crane came right up to us...
And as soon as he noticed his own reflection, started pecking-hard on the van...Solace was sitting right there and she got really nervous!