Close to Nature!

While at Chris and Chuck's "Beach House" in Port Clinton this past weekend, we decided to check out the African Wildlife Safari Park. It is a drive-thru wildlife park where you are given a cupful of food and the animals come right up to the car and eat the food right out of the cup! You can also buy carrots (which I recommend... easier for the animals to take). Lexi was a tad overwhelmed at first because the very first animal that came up to the van was a HUGE elk and she stuck her whole head in Lexi's window to eat from Chuck's cup (who was sitting next to Lexi). She did like the deer and was fascinated by the giraffes and zebras. At one point, a bison had his head in Chuck's window eating a carrot and what looked like a long-horn steer attempted to get his head in our window, too! Matt quickly rolled up the window because his "horns" were gigantic. Towards the end of the park, I even got to feed a zebra!! After driving through the park, they have a small "zoo" with about 20 or so animals in cages. They also gave Lexi a free pass to ride the pony - which she LOVED! Enjoy the pictures and check back later for detail on the rest of our great weekend at the "Beach House".
1. Chuck feeding an elk
2. Matt feeding a deer
3. Chuck trying to kiss the elk
4. Chuck feeding a bison
5. the steer heading for our car
6. Bethany feeding a zebra (with an albino zebra on the right)
7. Chuck feeding a zebra
8. Lexi and the zebra
9. Lexi on the pony