Bear Country

 Our next adventure was to Bear Country. It's a park where the animals are free to roam around and you drive through the park. This was probably my least favorite of the places we visited. I'm glad we went but will probably never go back. It was pretty hot that day and a lot of the animals were hiding or sleeping.

 We did get to see some reindeer and goats that were roaming around.

 Bears are so lazy! Most of them were laying in the shade snoozing.

 The mountain lions were fenced in. We got to see them eating lunch. Neat but scary animals.

 It was about here that they announced through a speaker that I needed to roll my window up. I couldn't figure out how they knew my window was down. It was then that I noticed a tower where one of the rangers was sitting. I'm always pushing the rules. I couldn't get decent pictures through the glass!

 It took us about 15 minutes to drive through the park. I thought it was going to take at least an hour. I don't think it was worth the $60 to get in.

 They did have a few enclosures outside that you could walk around. The grizzly bear was my favorite.He was huge! I wouldn't want to come across him in the wild.

 The kids' favorite were the bear cubs. They were pretty cute.

Reptile Gardens

 We went to Reptile Gardens for half a day and everyone enjoyed it! It was definitely worth the money for admission.

 They had all sorts of alligators and salt-water crocodiles. Their enormity is amazing.

 They had all sorts of species of frogs and toads.

 They kids are looking at a bird to the left. They were in an enclosure but were free to walk around.

 Ugh. The snakes were neat but they give me the willies. My favorites were the venomous ones. They had tons of different species. Albino snakes really creep me out.

 The kids bugged this poor guy in a turtle costume for about 10 minutes. They were fascinated by it for some reason.

 We watched an alligator show. There were at least 2 dozen different species of alligators in one enclosure. He got in there with all of them and put on a good show.

 I had to include this picture. haha. The kids asked what they were doing. Mike and I both kind of ignored the question.

 These galapagos tortoises were my favorite. We were able to pet them. They're so neat and so big. It makes me want one.