Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Zoo time...

We decided a break from the normal lake activites was in store and since the boys were down at the coast fishing we headed to the Exotic Zoo near Johnson City and it was a blast!
Acres and acres of all sorts of animals, a petting zoo, and a tractor ride to feed all of the creatures!
We started off at the petting zoo where Riley was enamored with the fact that she could actually touch the deer. You see, deer are EVERYWHERE around my parents house, and while they are rather tame the do not let you pet them much to Riley's dismay. She often runs after them with open arms saying "I want to hold you" but so far her dream has not come true. This was about as close to "holding" deer this little girl got and she loved every minute of it.
We did learn a very important lesson, however. NEVER take a bucket of feed into a petting zoo. We were literally attacked by the deer and goats and even managed to let a few escape from the pen in our attempts to get in. There wasn't much staff from the zoo around so we were on our own to tame these guys and Desiree was our fearless leader!
We managed to escape the huge petting zoo pen and we were off on the tractor ride to see more animals...here's all the girls! Apparently Riley and I missed the memo about wearing green that day!
The most exciting part of the experience for Riley was the zebras...or as she calls them "Racing Stripes"...she was just in awe of them and DiDi even bought her a little stuffed zebra that she now sleeps with every night!
We saw some kangaroos...
Emus....
One happy girl!
They had two camels...one named Goober...and they LOVED eating right out of your hand!
After the tractor ride we did a little swinging...LOVE this little girl!
We found another petting zoo area that had baby goats...some even just a week old!
Riley got to "hold" them and talk sweetly to them and if her Dad had been there she probably would have convinced him to let her take one home!
The finale to our fun trip was that Riley got to ride a "horsie"...a cute pony named Mocha!
What's a girl to do after a long, hot morning of seeing all kinds of cool animals...well "ride Racing Stripes" that is!
We had a blast and went to a great little restaurant, the Chrome Cactus, and ate great burgers and sweet potato fries...yum!

1 comments:

Stacy said...

Love keeping up with you and your little girl! Just a heads up, the cutest blog on the blog changed a lot of their backgrounds and it looks like yours was one of them, you just have to go back there to get the new code! Looks like you all had a blast at the zoo!!
Stacy