A crazy drive through Lazy Five Ranch

One of our adventures while Bud and Jane were here was our trip up to Lazy 5 Ranch -- one of our favorite places in this area. The main feature of this ranch is a 3.5 mile drive through a park in which there are over 700 animals of all different types (from 6 different continents!). It's amazing to see them all just roaming around together. And not only do they come right up to your car, but many of them are so aggressive (because they know you probably have food for them) that they will come right IN your car if you let them! So it's quite the safari adventure. Bud and Jane kept comparing it to the real African safari they have been on in Kenya -- and they said this one has better roads and you can get much closer to the zebras here. :)

The kids, of course, loved it once again. This was Colsen's first experience there and, after getting licked by a huge creature who put his head in our window right as we started, he quickly recovered and decided he loved all the animals. He kept leaning out the window (when there wasn't an ostrich right there trying to get in) and yelling, "Hey animals! Whatcha doin' guys? Hey dude!" etc.

Here are some pictures from the adventure:

Afterwards, we went around the walking part of it and saw some of the other animals -- they even have lemurs, camels, and what I think were kangaroos now.
Later that day we went to Mom and Dad's house for some more wild adventures.... including a fantastic dinner featuring Dad's new "signature dish." We all came home that night exhausted, but unanimous in our opinions that it was a very fun day.