Today we took a little trip (30 min from our house :) to an exotic animal ranch. I was not sure what to expect but it was so much fun. They had a couple of monkeys, a bear, some special birds, and a few other animals in enclosures and a large petting area w/birds and lots of goats. After we saw these few things you get back in your vehicle and drive through the rest of it. It is just a HUGE open pasture full of all kids of animals. Every variety of deer, elk, camels, osterage, emus, buffalo, zebra, goats...I do not know what all was there but it was impressive. You drive through and you feed the animals from your car - they eat right out of your hand. The kids loved it. The camels and big osterage where a little much but the rest were great - every time one of the kids saw the osterage coming they would roll up all the windows. Eli got to 'drive' through part of it too so he thought that he was pretty big stuff. We had a lot of fun and defiantly something we will do again.

I was amazed at good all of the animals looked. They were obviously well cared for, however I did have to feel a little sorry for the tiger. He had a large enclosure in the middle of the area w/all the deer and other animals roaming free around him - I would think that would be a little tempting...