Safari World Adventures

This week, some new friends moved into our neighborhood.  They go to our church and have young kids, so  it is very exciting for us.  We took them to one of our favorite places: Safari World.  First, we drove around the park to check out the animals.  Some were wandering freely.

Wendy was in heaven with all of these animals!

Some animals were gated off from the rest of the tame animals.  Warnings were displayed everywhere to remind us to stay in our cars!  Lions....

 And Tigers....

And Bears....Oh my!

Then we went into the second half of the park.

 We started off at the Elephant Show.  Kyle thought it was pretty cool and Wendy loved watching the elephants....especially since she got to eat popcorn during the show.  Major plus for her!

 The elephant on the tight wire,

 Elephants playing music.

 I bought Wendy a stuffed elephant for $10 and discovered that included a little ride around the arena.  Score!  Wendy wasn't sure what to think, but I was just proud of her for staying up there.

After I got off, the trainer told me to wrap my arm around the elephant's trunk securely.  When I did this, to my great surprise, the elephant wrapped his trunk around my legs and swung me into the air.

 We got to feed more giraffes.

 This is the Phillips family.  Eric and Wendi are awesome and we really like Pearce and Emry as well.

 We also saw the dolphin show.  It was awesome!

 Wendy and I went into a tunnel so we could stand in a little glass house in the tiger den.  Wendy was just excited about the stairs leading to the tunnel.  You can see the tiger pacing the fence and Wendy's pink shirt in the house.  The tigers were a little too excited to have our kids by the fence and followed them.

What a fun day!