I happened to have a Monday off (which is rare) and Ian found out he was going to get Presidents day off, so he asked to take it early and the two of us spent Valentines Day together. We decided to take a day trip to Fredricksburg and just check it out cause we had heard it was kinda neat. We started doing some research and found out that there was an zoo of sorts in Johnson City (which Ian has always wanted to drive to) so us being the suckers we are we of course said we had to stop there on the way.
It was a neat place, we were the only ones there so first we started in the petting zoo with some giant sheep and a one goat that really liked me (and I was not so happy about that) and then we got on the trailer thing for our tour. It was really neat for $5 we got a 10lb bucket of food and the tour was probably about 30 to 45 minutes long and you could feed and pet any of the animals (except the emu, you couldnt pet him but that was ok). it was fun, and it was a beautiful day out so that made it even better. We also got the opportunity to use our new camera and really test the limits of it and let me just say if we had been using our traditional digital camera not one of these shots would have come out!
these llamas were hilarious, they were the biggest beggars of the group and I of course was a sucker and gave them more than I probably should have.
check out those tongues!
everytime you turned around there was always a huge group of animals chasing after you in search of extra food :)
the emu eating was the funniest thing, we tried to get a good picture of it but it was just too fast of a process, he would dig in really quickly and pull up leaving about 3/4 of his bite on the ground, he wasted a lot of my feed.
i was very excited about the zebras! these were the other animal you couldnt feed out of your hand (the emu was the other, the zebras would bite) but you could pet them. but to feed them you had to just drop some feed on the ground and they would pick it up. since you had to do that it was one of the few times the trailer actually stopped so you could be sure to pet them and get a few good photos.
so this camel is huge! you can see my hands to the left of the picture just to get an idea of the size of this thing. when it came to the camels they said to make sure you had your bucket hiding under the seats on the trailer or the camel would just take the entire bucket, so I had it under the seat but had it pulled out just a teeny tiny bit so I could reach in to get food. something made me turn around and in that split second this little fellow stole my bucket :( but he was a little sloppy about it and left a bunch on feed on the seats, and he was towards the end of the tour, so I was still able to continue getting food to the final animals.
After the "zoo" we went to Fredricksburg and did some shopping in its cute little main street (got some things for logan, things for the dogs, things for me and even something for lisa), than had a nice dinner sitting outside with a little old man band and then we were going to get some dessert but were just so full and so tired that we called it a night and Ian said he would owe me dessert. I just got my dessert on Sunday, but it was the yummy warm apple cobbler with vanilla ice cream from the cheesecake factory, so it was worth the month long wait :)
I am sad to said this blog post probably isnt worth the month long wait, but live with it :)
It was a neat place, we were the only ones there so first we started in the petting zoo with some giant sheep and a one goat that really liked me (and I was not so happy about that) and then we got on the trailer thing for our tour. It was really neat for $5 we got a 10lb bucket of food and the tour was probably about 30 to 45 minutes long and you could feed and pet any of the animals (except the emu, you couldnt pet him but that was ok). it was fun, and it was a beautiful day out so that made it even better. We also got the opportunity to use our new camera and really test the limits of it and let me just say if we had been using our traditional digital camera not one of these shots would have come out!
these llamas were hilarious, they were the biggest beggars of the group and I of course was a sucker and gave them more than I probably should have.
check out those tongues!
everytime you turned around there was always a huge group of animals chasing after you in search of extra food :)
the emu eating was the funniest thing, we tried to get a good picture of it but it was just too fast of a process, he would dig in really quickly and pull up leaving about 3/4 of his bite on the ground, he wasted a lot of my feed.
i was very excited about the zebras! these were the other animal you couldnt feed out of your hand (the emu was the other, the zebras would bite) but you could pet them. but to feed them you had to just drop some feed on the ground and they would pick it up. since you had to do that it was one of the few times the trailer actually stopped so you could be sure to pet them and get a few good photos.
so this camel is huge! you can see my hands to the left of the picture just to get an idea of the size of this thing. when it came to the camels they said to make sure you had your bucket hiding under the seats on the trailer or the camel would just take the entire bucket, so I had it under the seat but had it pulled out just a teeny tiny bit so I could reach in to get food. something made me turn around and in that split second this little fellow stole my bucket :( but he was a little sloppy about it and left a bunch on feed on the seats, and he was towards the end of the tour, so I was still able to continue getting food to the final animals.
After the "zoo" we went to Fredricksburg and did some shopping in its cute little main street (got some things for logan, things for the dogs, things for me and even something for lisa), than had a nice dinner sitting outside with a little old man band and then we were going to get some dessert but were just so full and so tired that we called it a night and Ian said he would owe me dessert. I just got my dessert on Sunday, but it was the yummy warm apple cobbler with vanilla ice cream from the cheesecake factory, so it was worth the month long wait :)
I am sad to said this blog post probably isnt worth the month long wait, but live with it :)
1 comment:
Haha, I love zoos! I think your emu picture is an ostrich:) and my favorite pics are those two at the end of the Scotch Highland...we had one of those at Indy named Bonnie and she was very cute:)
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