Wildlife Safari (100th Post!)

We finished off Spring Break with a trip to the Wildlife Safari with Katrina and Finley! We used to live near Winston before moving to Eugene (almost 20 years ago!), so we would go to the Wildlife Safari all the time. I remembered a lot of landmarks as we were driving there...the place we used to go for ice cream, our old church, and my friend's grandma's house. (:

We squeezed all three car seats in our car.

We started out by visiting the village where they had a little petting zoo and other animal displays to look at. Poor little Griffin got head- butted in the tummy by a goat ): He hardly reacted, but I felt bad for him...and later, Katrina and I couldn't stop giggling about it. Sad!

Katrina and Finley

Finn and Griffin looking at the donkey or miniature horse...I'm not really sure.

Ronan trying to get as close to the animals as he possibly could without actually being in their cage!

Next we got back in the car to drive through the "wild". Katrina and I were both hoping that an ostrich would come right up to our car so the kids could get the true Wildlife Safari experience....and one did!

A brown bear checking us out! We were instructed not to stop in the bear cage and to keep our windows up, because they are very curious (:

The buffalo were in and along side the road. It was cool to see them so close up! We lucked out with seeing some of the animals up close, but we couldn't really see the elephants, the tigers, or the monkeys. They must have been sleeping or trying to stay dry.

The kids really enjoyed seeing so many wild animals! Ronan was at the perfect age for it, but Finn and Griffin seemed to have fun too. They were high enough in their car seats to be able to see well, so they both were making animal noises and trying to talk about what they saw. Griffin was "mooing" most of the time, because that is his favorite animal noise and a lot of the animals must have looked like cows to him (:

Katrina took a lot more pictures since I was driving, so I will share some of her pictures soon.