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Wildlife Safari,
Winston, Oregon |
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Spur-of-the-moment ideas have never been my forte', but have become more prevalent within the last year. I decided that it was time to take the kids to Wildlife Safari. Although Amber has been here before, she was very young. It would be like a new experience for both of them.
The park offered two trips through it via motorized vehicle, so we took one slow drive before heading for the interior of the park. We grabbed a cart and went in every direction at once.
My camera sucks plain and simple, but we still enjoyed watching the wildlife.
Watching the Koi while feeding them was as funny as it was relaxing. Handfuls of food were bought at the nearby dispenser before we took aim, trying to get the pieces directly into the gaping mouths.
I wanted to get something to eat. It took a while to persuade the kids to sit long enough to get some food in their bellies, but after bribing them with chicken strips, fries, and milk, they finally yielded to their hunger.
They even got masks with their lunches and wore them the rest of the day at the park. The animals did not care.
In fact, they were all pretty relaxed as I figured they were well used to humans at this point in their captive lives.
No park trip would be complete without playing on some playground equipment. It seemed silly to me to come all this way to play on a structure I have three blocks from the house, but who am I to judge.
They took turns sliding, before they became creative. Soon, sliding was not enough as they had to shock each other from the static electricity built up.
One last picture was taken before the final drive through the park. After all, it was getting late and we had to be in Bandon to get our cabin by four.
Of course, I could not drive with a giraffe in the road. He stopped long enough to look into the 4Runner before I could get the windows up. I took pictures, but the thing was so massive, I could only gets bits and pieces of him in each frame.
We saw Zebras.
We all thought the lack of privacy was well worth the entry price and laughed until we cried.
I quickly rolled my windows up this time as I no desire to get spit on.
We were amazed at how big tigers really are.
The sun was heading for the horizon as two quick hours saw us to our cabin. The picture below was from our bay window.
Of course a trip to the beach would not be complete without the mandatory play time.
The tide was far out, offering opportunities galore.
The picture below says it all.
We meandered over to a set of rocks to explore a cave that was accessible.
Mole crabs were found and dug up. Johnny could not stay in one spot long enough to savor anything and quickly ran off in search for the next mental high.
He found it in the form of "Patricks". Poking and prodding brought forth "wows" and "ewws".
I enjoyed playing jump rope with a long piece of seaweed. Strange looking stuff, that seaweed.
The night was getting cool as a breeze was whipping up. Johnny wanted to see if he could climb the stairs all by himself. I took a success shot before heading with the kids to a local restaurant. It was a grand time that was supposed to be continued the next day. The next day came and no pictures were taken as there was not a smile to be seen as we were snowed on, hailed on, and rained on the whole trip home.
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