Lion Country Safari

Yesterday we all went to Lion Country Safari, which is a special kind of zoo. Actually it's two parks side by side. The first part is a drive through zoo where the animals roam free and can walk right up to your car. Most of the animals stayed clear of the car except for one Ostrich who was challenging every car that drove by. I think we were driving on his part of the road.

The second part of the park was actually a bit more fun. There were rides which we all enjoyed and opportunities to feed Lorries, Budgies and Sheep. Chance loveed every bit of it, In the above picture Chance is riding a train around Dinosaur Land and in the photo below my Mom and Chance are riding an elephant much like the Dumbo ride at Disney. They go around in a circle then up and down as you pull the lever. Chance and I rode it once it took him a minute to figure out how to make it go up but once he did he loved being able to control the elephant all himself. On the way out he rode once more with Grammy. This picture isn't very good but I picking it because you can see how much fun they are having.

Chance and I rode the Merry-Go-Round too. well he rode and I spotted him. The weather was wonderful for this outing yesterday, on the Merry-Go-Round there was a great breeze coming off the nearby lake.

We took a boat ride on the lake too but I don't have any good pictures of the experience. The boat took us around the monkey islands giving us an up-close look at them.

Chance also road a ferris wheel for the first time yesterday. We have never really had the opportunity to ride one with him but yesterday there it was so we got on. There was a smile on his face the whole time as you can see in the above picture and the one below for that matter.


The three photos below are our animal feeding experiences. The first one I am holding a cup of nectar and the Lorry is sitting on my hand eating. Chance didn't hold the food for this one but he had a good time watching them eat. It was amazing watching them all fly down for the food and as soon as it was gone they could tell just by looking.


Her we are feeding sheep in the petting zoo. Chance was funny petting them then feeding them. I taught him to always keep his fingers flat then let the sheep eat the food.

In this last picture Chance is holding a stick with food for the budgies with me just holding on to make sure it doesn't hit the ground. These little guys fly in from all over to eat the seeds we were holding. I think feeding the birds was the best part of this whole trip. It's tons of fun.