Vacation Part 2

After the wedding we went to South Carolina and spent Sunday night, Monday, and left Tuesday morning.

Monday morning ( 7/30/12) Aunt Beth took us to Hollywild Animal Park.  It's a small, local zoo but nothing like I have ever been too.  When you walk in you buy bags of grain and crackers and there are all sorts of animals running free throughout the park and all most all the penned animals can be fed.  The other unique thing about the park is that all the animals are stars!  They are animals that have been in movies, commercials, or ads.  The horse and the monkey from the movie Pippi Longstocking are there.  The lions that Disney based their drawings for the Lion King movies are there.  Pretty neat!

Once we walked through the whole park, they then took us on old buses with all the windows removed for a safari ride.  Again, you buy big bags of day old bread and bagels and you can feed the animals that walk right up to the side of the bus.  They had emus, deer, cattle, all sorts of free ranging animals.  They even had a baby bison that was less than a week old!  It was so much fun feeding them and the kids had an absolute blast.  Again making memories, loved it!!

Thanks so much for having us Aunt Beth and Uncle Walt, we had such a wonderful time at your place!  And we will definitely be back.  The rest of our vacation was a lot of driving and we learned that driving vacations with young kids just don't work.  They had more fun and were better behaved and less fussy when we stayed in one spot and did small outings.  Destination vacations are the only way to go from now on!  I better get it in writing and remember to read this next time when planning a vacation...