More fun with Kathryn

We had a very busy week while Kathryn was visiting. We crammed as much as we could around my work days. A fellow travel nurse had told me about a "drive through zoo". He said how awesome it was so we decided to go while she was here. Since Anna was here now on an assignment we dragged her along. We had a blast!!

Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose, Tx

Mr. Rhino

HHeeellllooooo

Yummy pretzel

This place is huge! You pay your admission per car and can buy food to feed the animals. My hubby was too cheap to buy the food so we started out on our journey. Some of the animals come right up to the car; they are use to being fed. Anna brought some snacks for herself but ended up sharing her pretzels.

These guys are watching from afar.

Zebra!

The Zebras were hilarious. As you can see they want to taste everything! There were 5 or 6 around us. We were watching the ones on the passenger side of the car when one came up stuck his head in the drivers window between David and the steering wheel. It startled us so bad that I missed getting a picture; it just came out a blur. They are so pretty to see up close.

This one was nibbling on Kathryn's bracelet.

Love me a giraffe

 Giraffes are so big but so graceful. When they run it looks like they are in slow motion. We tried hard to get them to come over to the car but they were more interested in eating the hay/grass that was put out for them.

"Hey, I was here first!"

 About have way through the drive they have a place to stop and get out to stretch your legs and spend money! They have a gift shop, restrooms and place to eat with an observation deck. There had been a fire at the original eating place so all of that was closed and under repairs. They had a make shift gift shop, bathrooms and eating place set up. We took the opportunity to go to the bathroom and get a few souvenirs. As you can see from the picture below this place is huge. This was just looking down in one direction.

View from observation area

These guys were cool looking. Horns are like a corkscrew.

Reindeer

"Got something for me?"

Deer



Emu

Jack rabbit

Buffalo

These were just a few of the animals we saw. There was a ram or ram relative that head butted the car door. Guess he was mad that we didn't feed him! Didn't hurt the door, but was very funny. It was a fun time. Before we got there we ate a great lunch at Hammond's BBQ.

We also visited the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens. It was nice but they had several areas closed or roped off for weddings. It is very spread out but still nice. Our favorite area was the Japanese Gardens. Very peaceful and pretty.

Family photo shoot

Kathryn and I walking across the water. There was a little girl that
wanted to walk across so bad. She would get started then get
scared and go back. Her Dad would go a little ways and coax
her along but she never made it all they way.

This has to be the biggest/oldest tree I have ever seen.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Papi and his little one



Turtles sunning



Japanese Garden area
                                                                                                              




                                     

If in the Fort Worth area it is worth a visit. They had a big rose garden that I would love to see when things were all in bloom. When we were there only a few varieties of roses were blooming plus they had the main rose garden area closed for a wedding. Guess we should have gone during the week instead of the weekend.










We had a great lunch here

Had a great visit with this face!

We were exhausted by the time she was gone home. It was a great visit and we all had a blast! Now it was time to get back to working and making some more to be able to play some more. I'm sure some of you who read these post don't think I work but I really do!!