Wild Animal Sanctuary

Yesterday we went to the Wild Animal Sanctuary.  Mark decided to go for his birthday activity which was fun because we had come two years ago for his birthday.  

As a recap, it is a place for large animals who have been rescued from abusive situations.  They have lions, bears, bobcats, leopards, mountain lions, tigers, and wolves.  And there is a walk-way they have created above the animals that you walk on.  The whole layout is really neat.

It was an absolutely perfect evening!  Jacob was loving every minute of being there.   He could just run up and down the walkway and look on both sides and point at all of the different animals.  It was adorable and he was in heaven.  

We walked down the walkway all the way and then stopped and ate a little picnic dinner that we brought.  Then things really started to get exciting.  As we were eating (in front of the grizzly bears) they started wrestling with each other.  It was so neat - and crazy to watch!

After we were done eating and started walking back along the walkway (this was right at sunset) it seemed like all of the animals were putting on a show!  The wolves were definitely Jacob's favorite part.  They have a section where there are three arctic wolves and two timber wolves.  We were watching them and all of a sudden they started wrestling and playing with one another.  They were running all around and Jacob just kept running back and forth watching and giggling.  They have a little pond area and they would run through it and shake off and Jacob was all giggles.  It was a toss-up which was more fun - watching the wolves or watching Jacob watch the wolves!

Then as we passed the lions they all started roaring back and forth and it was pretty incredible.  It was beautiful and exciting to watch.  We just seemed to be in the right place at all the right times.  We loved it!