Animal Slobber

Last Sunday Robert and I finally gave each other our Christmas presents. A little late I know but it was well worth the wait. We went on the Photo Safari at the Wild animal park. For those of you who don’t know the Wild Animal Park is a 1,800 acre “zoo” in San Diego. It started out as a breeding facility for the zoo and now is another park open to the public.




Since it’s only 12 miles from our house we tend to find ourselves there frequently on the weekends when we don’t have anything else to do. A walk is so much more interested when you get to see elephants, gorillas and giraffes. Anyways in the Photo Safari you get in the back of a flat bed truck with panel sides with like 10 other people, a tour guide and driver. You then get to drive into 3 of their massive enclosures, my favorite of course being the African enclosure with about 20 giraffes right now.



Once we were in the enclosure they stopped the truck by the giraffe heard so they can come up to the truck and we can feed them. You stand at the back of the truck with leaves behind your back, you have to hide them from the giraffes or they will eat them all at once, and hold them up to feed the giraffes. It was AWSOME!!! I love giraffes and it is amazing to be in a truck with 3 with in reach of you and another 15 with in a few feet. Inside the enclosure we also saw Rhinos, birds and other animals.

But wait there’s more we not only got to feed giraffes we also go to feed a momma Rhino and her 10 month old baby. It was amazing to have my hand inside the mouth of such a massive creature. Merry Christmas! Best Sunday EVER!!