A Wild Time

The morning of July 21st Emily was found reading up on her adventure for the day...

and she was pretty excited!
Once we arrived...
we had loads of fun and saw a lot of animals.
As soon as we got in we walked all of the way to the back of the park...
for the Journey Into Africa tram ride.


The lions put on a really great show for all of us complete with loud roars and some fighting.
I think everyone's favorite though was this 2 day old rhinoceros.  
We were not allowed to stop the tram and upset the mama but as we slowly rolled by she came right out...
and made him follow her back to where she felt he was safer.




After the ride we were off to explore the rest of the park - feeding the lorikeets, 





and ducks,
and watching a few shows.





Emily spent a lot of the show behind me - protecting herself from the animals on stage...
but did let Daddy take her up close after it was over.



We also saw a lot of eating.  First was the elephant rush when they sprinkle food all around and let the elephants all out at once.  Then the elephant caretaker came and spoke to us, telling us all about the elephants at the Wild Animal Park.




The cheetah caretaker also came out to speak while the two cheetahs gnawed on some meaty bones.

Here is everyone checking out a hair from an elephant's tail... it is like plastic... crazy.
And we ended our day with a little exercise...




and dreams of going back.