Birthday!

I decided for my birthday I wanted to go to the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keensberg. I had been trying to go there for years but we never got around to it. So Kevin got off a little early on my birthday, we packed a dinner and headed out. We were a little nervous about the weather because it was raining on the way and the sky looked pretty dark out east, but the rain stopped before we got there and it was a gorgeous night! I absolutely LOVED it. My pictures don't even do it justice (I wish I had a zoom lens for my new camera). You walk on these walkways high above the ground and look down at all these animals. They have hundreds of wildlife, mainly tigers, lions, and bears, but also some leopards, wolves, coyotes, lynx, and some other wildlife. They are an amazing place, they rescue these animals from people who have owned them illegally and mistreated them. Some of them had never been outside until they were rescued and brought to this place. I could have stayed there all night and stared at them if my children would have let me and if they weren't closing up. We did spend a little over 2 hours there and they allow you to bring your own picnic so we walked around and then ate dinner at a table right next to the tigers and bears. I highly recommend it and we will definitely be going back. Tigers are my absolute favorite, they are just gorgeous!

These 2 were wrestling for a while then the smaller one pinned down the bigger one and held him by the neck and they just stayed there for about 10 minutes not moving.

So many bears!!!

This is Gracie reminding us to be very quiet so we didn't make the animals nervous.

This lion was the most vocal, it kept roaring over and over. Then later at night the wolves started howling, which was really cool to hear.

This was on our way out and Gracie was a little done with being quiet, and this tiger was a little bothered by her.