Safari, Take 2!

We couldn't decide what to do for Labor Day, so we decided to go back to the Drive-Thru Safari since Jordan didn't get to go with us last time.  Once again, we had a blast!  This time, we drove through first, visited the different animals that you can pet, and then ate lunch there.  We wanted to visit Pioneer Pizza again, but they were closed for Labor Day.

Here's John Michael looking at some buffalo!

And the evil ostrich.  Those are everywhere!

Look, a baby zebra! He was very dusty and very cute.

I felt like I was in Texas with all these longhorn cattle blocking our way!

The camels loved to come up to our car.  I think it's so cool to be so close to them!

And there's the rhino.  He was pretty big!  JM liked him too!

Now, when we got to the petting zoo part, John Michael really surprised us.  He ran right in and went up to every animal there.  He loved petting them and he even ran after some roosters, but they weren't very happy about that!

He really liked the roosters!

I pretty much stayed away from every animal there.  I'm afraid of lots of animals, but I didn't want it to show because I wanted JM to really enjoy them, and he did!  Matthew wanted to pet them too!

JM really enjoyed petting the donkey....

and the little cow (which I am also afraid of).  He even loved petting the little baby camel!

 

If you'll remember from my last post about the safari, the baby lemur was JM's favorite animal there!  Well, they had her out again that day.  He was so happy!  She really is very cute and quite sweet.  He was so excited to get to pet her again.

So then the lady who works there put her on my arm.  I have to admit, her little paws were so soft and felt like little bubbles on my arm.  And yes, I am freaking out here.

She was a little interested in Matthew and he was sort of interested in her too.  I'm starting to freak out more here....

And then my worst nightmare came true.  Matthew opened his mouth and the lemur got a really good lick in his mouth.  I was really, really freaking out then!  I kept annoying Jordan all day about whether or not he thought the lemur had any exotic diseases and whether or not Matthew could have gotten them from it.  I guess Matthew was OK, but he wasn't happy about it at all!

Both boys were really interested in petting the turtles.  I think I got laughed at by another mom because I was right there with my hand sanitizer right after they touched them.  Turtles are icky and I was prepared for the petting zoo with lots of hand sanitizer.

 

We had so much fun!  I'm hoping to go back again in a few weeks!