November 18, 2014
Ted woke up to nineteen degrees temperature outside this morning. I stayed in bed until it warmed up just a bit more. My cousin, Glenn and his wife of forty years who I had only met once before they were even married, Diane, came and took us out for breakfast at Golden Corral. They have an enormous buffet and we all had omelets made to order. It was delicious and after the omelet and fruit, I wandered the line to see what else they had picking up a few other items along the way. I can't believe how much we ate but it is late afternoon as I am writing this section and I am still not hungry. We had a nice long visit and then drove around awhile to look at the view. Glenn stopped at a mall so I could get my annual supply of hand soap at Bath and Body Works and they brought us back. I worked to catch up on the blog and Ted went to check out Willow Lake which we are parked near.
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| Willow Lake |
Glenn and Diane came to dinner with chicken enchilada casserole, corn muffins and pumpkin pie while I furnished the salad and beverages. We had a great meal and sat at the table chatting for quite awhile. Diane brought me a tote with fabric squares from her aunt that has just been put in a nursing home with dementia. Oh boy, more fabric! Temperatures started dropping with the darkness outside. We will be glad to get back to warmer climes.
November 19, 2014
We picked Glenn up this morning at eight-thirty for the hour long trip to Out of Africa. Glenn has a season pass and I have been seeing his amazing photos on Facebook for some time now. One of the first things we did was walk toward the giraffe enclosure where we found celery on the ground and I fed the giraffe. They have a sixteen inch prehensile tongue which is dark on the front of it to prevent it getting sunburn and no upper teeth so they don't bite. What beautiful, graceful animals they are.
One section of the park, called the Serengeti, you ride through in an open-air bus and the animals are all just wandering free and come up to the bus for their "cookies". It was neat to be so close to them and we got some fairly good photos. I don't remember most of their names.
The rest of the day we wandered through the large park on foot. Most of the animal shared enclosures with other animals of the same species often depending on how well they got along and who would eat the others food or not. In one enclosure was a white tiger and a female lioness. They were born on the same day and have been together since they were two weeks old. The lioness cries if the white tiger is taken out for any reason and they are unaware that there is any difference between them. If only the rest of the world could be like that. Beside the big cats, there were bears, wolves, hyenas, a rhinoceros and a variety of other smaller animals. The park is really well done and the animals well cared for and loved. In the afternoon we saw the Tiger Splash Show where the tigers are in with people and jump into the pool to play with toys that are waved in front of them. We also got to watch them feeding the animals. They were throwing huge turkeys over the fences for the lions and tigers and the big male lion got a huge hunk of beef. The bears they fed smaller pieces of meat through the fence. The hyenas were the scariest to watch.
November 19, 2014
We picked Glenn up this morning at eight-thirty for the hour long trip to Out of Africa. Glenn has a season pass and I have been seeing his amazing photos on Facebook for some time now. One of the first things we did was walk toward the giraffe enclosure where we found celery on the ground and I fed the giraffe. They have a sixteen inch prehensile tongue which is dark on the front of it to prevent it getting sunburn and no upper teeth so they don't bite. What beautiful, graceful animals they are.
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| Sheila Feeding the Giraffe |
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| Prehensile Tongue |
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| They Kill Lions With Those Horns |
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| Often Mistaken for Unicorns |
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| Yipes, Stripes! |
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| ??? |
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| Striped Feet |
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| Brave Little Girl |
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| Hundreds of Pounds of Horns |
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| He Was Roaring |
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| Baby Grizzly |
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| Serval - Second Fastest Animal in the World |
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| We Think She Could Have Reached Us |
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| I Wouldn't Get That Close |
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| Tigers Love to Swim |
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| Soul Mates |
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| Lioness and Black Leopard |
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| Seldom Seen Black Leopard |
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| He Wasn't Happy to Be Disturbed |
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| Look at Those Teeth |
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| Vicious, Hungry Hyena |
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| Running For Feeding Time |
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| Rhinoceros |
One section of the park, called the Serengeti, you ride through in an open-air bus and the animals are all just wandering free and come up to the bus for their "cookies". It was neat to be so close to them and we got some fairly good photos. I don't remember most of their names.
The rest of the day we wandered through the large park on foot. Most of the animal shared enclosures with other animals of the same species often depending on how well they got along and who would eat the others food or not. In one enclosure was a white tiger and a female lioness. They were born on the same day and have been together since they were two weeks old. The lioness cries if the white tiger is taken out for any reason and they are unaware that there is any difference between them. If only the rest of the world could be like that. Beside the big cats, there were bears, wolves, hyenas, a rhinoceros and a variety of other smaller animals. The park is really well done and the animals well cared for and loved. In the afternoon we saw the Tiger Splash Show where the tigers are in with people and jump into the pool to play with toys that are waved in front of them. We also got to watch them feeding the animals. They were throwing huge turkeys over the fences for the lions and tigers and the big male lion got a huge hunk of beef. The bears they fed smaller pieces of meat through the fence. The hyenas were the scariest to watch.
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