Yesterday was Grandma and Grandpa day with Laila. Marc and Chandra went of to Sedona, and we took Laila to a wild animal park called Out of Africa. Part of the experience included rides around the property in converted school buses, and the opportunity to feed a 15 foot tall giraffe. As we boarded the bus, we were handed carrots, and even though I couldn't get "the shot", Laila fed the giraffe, and got licked by it's tongue. She thought that was pretty cool, as evidenced by the top picture. We later watched the tiger splash, where several of the park employees lure the two tigers into the pool with props, like inflatable toys, and other items that seemed to trigger the tigers' chase instincts. It was fun to watch, but after some of the show became repetitive, our 4 1/2 year old wanted to move on to bigger and better things. We did stay till the end, and then moved on to watch the big cats being fed. We have seen this a couple of times at Keepers of the Wild animal park near Kingman. When you watch a large tiger latch onto a chunk of meat, it definitely reinforces the fact that these are wild animals, and very powerful. The nice feature at this park, and at Keepers, is that all of the enclosures are very large, giving the animals room to exist in near their natural environment. We capped the daylight hours off with some play time at one of the playgrounds in the Thousand Trails Preserve, where we have the motor home parked. It was a good grandparents day, and gave the parents some free time.
Yesterday was Grandma and Grandpa day with Laila. Marc and Chandra went of to Sedona, and we took Laila to a wild animal park called Out of Africa. Part of the experience included rides around the property in converted school buses, and the opportunity to feed a 15 foot tall giraffe. As we boarded the bus, we were handed carrots, and even though I couldn't get "the shot", Laila fed the giraffe, and got licked by it's tongue. She thought that was pretty cool, as evidenced by the top picture. We later watched the tiger splash, where several of the park employees lure the two tigers into the pool with props, like inflatable toys, and other items that seemed to trigger the tigers' chase instincts. It was fun to watch, but after some of the show became repetitive, our 4 1/2 year old wanted to move on to bigger and better things. We did stay till the end, and then moved on to watch the big cats being fed. We have seen this a couple of times at Keepers of the Wild animal park near Kingman. When you watch a large tiger latch onto a chunk of meat, it definitely reinforces the fact that these are wild animals, and very powerful. The nice feature at this park, and at Keepers, is that all of the enclosures are very large, giving the animals room to exist in near their natural environment. We capped the daylight hours off with some play time at one of the playgrounds in the Thousand Trails Preserve, where we have the motor home parked. It was a good grandparents day, and gave the parents some free time.
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