The Wild's

This morning; Jeff, Samantha and I met up with Nick, Mandy, Grady and Chase and headed off to The Wild's in eastern Ohio. It was a little over an hour drive to get there but Samantha was really excited to see the animals. We took a safari on a re -purposed school bus for a nearly 3 hour tour. Above is some special kind of donkey. It stood right next to our bus so we got a really close picture.

Up on the hill were 2 camel's. Again, they were some fancy type of camel. But to us, they were just plain old camels.

After seeing the camel's we caught a glimpse of the rhino's but they were too far away for Samantha to see or to be able to get a picture of them. So our next stop was to a little pond area where we got to feed really big catfish. Samantha really enjoyed feeding the fish.

My cute little family.

After seeing the catfish we got to see a huge herd of bison! They too were really close to the bus so we got a great view of them.

They have a few swans there that are tagged with numbers around their necks to keep track of them. They were so beautiful.

These are actually horses even though they look more like donkey's to me. These too were right up next to the bus so we all got a really good look at them.

Obviously this is a giraffe, but man were they cool to see this close up. And I don't have a picture of the baby one, but this is the mom and the baby was just a little bit behind his momma. When the baby was born, he was 5"8' tall!

Speaking of babies. At the top of this picture is a momma zebra and her 1 month old baby. She apparently is very protective of her baby and does not let anyone get closer than this.

Within 2 minutes of leaving The Wild's this is what Samantha looked like. She was even too sleepy to keep her whole thumb in her mouth! She slept for the first 30 minutes in the car but then we had to stop for gas and she never fell back asleep. We thought she would take a monster nap when we got home but she got a second wind and stayed up until 7:15 PM tonight. She will sleep good tonight I am sure.

Overall it was a good trip, but it was probably a little too long of an excursion for the kids. They were all geting angsty towards the end of the trip. But it was totally worth it to see the excitement on their faces as they got to see all the animals.