Trip to the Bayou Wildlife Park

November 18th, 2011 - -

One Friday morning the kids and I joined my old Bible study group at the Alvin Bayou Wildlife Park. The park covers over 80 acres of prairie and woods where a guided tram ride takes you on an African safari type journey in which the animals can come right up to you and have a snack if they so desire. They both loved it, especially Catherine.

A few highlights of the trip included: the tram ride's rapid roller - coaster like descents along the trail along with a camel taking the food bucket from me - literally a tug of war and the camel won. (Jacob was very angry at the camels for robbing us - really he was quite mad.) Also a deer helped itself to a little girl's meal at our table during lunch which caused quite a stir amongst the little ones. And finally, we saw the largest alligator I have ever seen! It was enormous. They were also excited, but slightly intimidated in the very beginning as we drove in when the animals came right up to and actually tried to put their heads inside of the windows of the car!

Catherine was especially pleased to see a friend from Sunday school there too (the little girl in red.)

Sorry I didn't get many pictures on this adventure...!