Out of Africa!

On October 25th Jana and Emma came up and met us at Out of Africa, about halfway between our towns. It is out in the desert with fences keeping the animals in very large spaces. There is a tram to take us to see some of the animals and then we hop on a bus with open windows to take us to see the zebra and giraffes and other animals which we can feed with carrots or special biscuits. We also watched a show with 2 small bears who ran around chasing a guy who would jump in a pool to get them to jump in and then they would play and splash each other. It was really cute. So cute in fact that I totally forgot to take any photos of them. But here are a few pics of the rest of the fun day.


The Zebras come right up to the bus but the driver told us they bite so why is someone trying to feed them by hand????

Emma is feeding this Giraffe. Too bad I didn't get the pic from the side...

Eeewwww! Thier tongues are 18 inches long!!!

Emma loved the Lemurs. There were quite a few of them and she started singing "I like to move it, move it. I like to move it move it." and dancing along the road to them when she saw them!

Here Jana is petting the miniature lioness up on her perch. (not really. I'm just a great photographer!)

Maybe this is when we heard a very angry lion roaring VERY loudly over and over again until the people went away from his fence.

Emma talking to a Hyena. Do you know they Moo? They only 'laugh' when they are hunting.

Mr. Hyena again.

My personal favorite, the Tiger. He was just pacing back and forth by this fence.

So that was the day. We all enjoyed it very much and the weather even cooperated. It was beautiful.