Safari Park

 Thanks to a very warm winter down here, we were able to do a lot of really fun activities during Dan's time off at Christmas. One of the things we did was go to the Safari Park. It's always so fun to go there and nice change of pace from the zoo.

 They opened a new exhibit called Lemur Island (or something like that). You have to be a certain age to go in it but you have the chance of encountering an actual lemur. Henry wasn't old enough, but Jonah was. And thankfully Jonah is very adventurous so Dan took him through it. Sadly, the lemurs were all sleeping in their little dens, but Jonah had fun getting close to them. You actually get to go into their enclosure, so there isn't anything preventing them from coming up to you. It's pretty neat. We'll try it again the next time we're there and maybe they will be a bit more active.

 The boys always have fun feeding the ducks. This is much more Henry's speed! One of the ducks actually came up to Henry and took a piece of food from his hand. Sadly Henry was holding it wrong and duck kind of pecked him. But Henry was a good sport and forgave the duck!

 We went into the lorikeet exhibit as well. We actually went in it thinking Lucy would like all the birds, which she did. But Jonah was even more fascinated. He really wanted to feed the birds. So after talking to him to make sure he wouldn't chicken out, I went and bought a cup of the nectar the birds like to eat. Jonah was a total champ! He held the cup out and made a new friend almost instantly. His bird was too funny. It would eat until it was full and back off but if another bird came up or showed interest in the cup, it was zoom back in and suck the nectar down. What a glutton! Anyways, we were really impressed and proud of how brave Jonah was. He was very nervous the birds would peck him, but he didn't let that stop him from having fun!

 If you look closely, you can see the big male lion right behind Jonah!

 My little chickies!!!