Now we stayed in Wichita last year too...it is the home of one of our favorite functioning old western towns...Cow Town. Last year, we got back to the hotel from Cow Town and were FAMISHED...and really in the mood for Thai Food. (If you know me at all, you know this is a weakness for me...and if I'm ever offered the opportunity to partake, I jump at the chance...however, I've not found a plate of Mee Krob, good or otherwise, since we left California, apparently these people in the middle states have no understanding of the necessity of Mee Krob.) So we either scoured the phone book or, more likely, googled and found a place called Thai Traditions...they have a Musamun Curry that I would eat out of a shoe. So this year we just PLANNED to eat there on our first night...we had the Musamun, Pad Thai and Pad Prik King...and all I can say? mmmmmmmmmmmm.
Because we rarely make this a straight through trip, we usually have an event on the day after we arrive in Kansas. AND because I was sort of out of commission for the planning of our Girly Trip this year (many circumstances collided which left me REALLY busy and REALLY struggling to WANT to plan anything) true to form, my bestest buddy, Aunt S.P. stepped right up and found the coolest attraction ever...in Wichita, of all places.
Tanganykia Wildlife Park...it's just another zoo on paper. There were many of the typical zoo-ish things...ya know, giraffes ambling around way over there...a sleeping rhino hanging out in the mud...oh and a snow tiger asleep way over there in the grass on the other side that looks like a rock and won't wake up.
But oooooohhh...there's some other stuff that is just FUN. For instance...because there were 10 of us, we signed up for a tour. This was great...there were just enough of us...someone had a question about most stuff which kept even the littlest ones interested...and if everyone had a question, there weren't so many that she couldn't answer everyone.
And as an added bonus...Bear thought our guide was HILARIOUS...
But on TOP of the informative and funny guide...we got ta feed sumpin!! I did not know what the something WAS until it was revealed...I'm not sure if Aunt S.P. did or not...but if she did, she wasn't talking.
We got to FEED lemurs.
Now here are the rules...
So...we went in...sat on the rocks...received our "treat" (it was a craisin) and when we opened out hands in our laps...magic happened...
They seemed to really like Bear...
Well...and it goes without saying that they loved the Grandma...
And this one really REALLY liked Gabby...he sat there and held her hand for quite a while...I'm fairly certain it's just that she's so loveable...but it could be that she smelled more like craisins than the rest of us...
The whole idea that we got to get THIS close to lemurs...well...it was pretty amazing...and the babies? Sooo sweet...
Now if that had been all, it would have been pretty great, but that was NOT all..there seemed to be animals to feed EVERYWHERE. Although sometimes our girls took on the aspects of a shark frenzy GETTING the food to feed the animals...
There were...lemme think...
Coy Fish
Lorikeets (of which I, sadly, didn't TAKE any pictures...BECAUSE I WAS FEEDIN THEM...and was COVERED in Lorikeets...wish I had taken some though because everyone had at least 3...and the grownups who knew not to flinch ended up with between 5-7 all over them.)
There were Kangaroos with joeys in their pouches...
There was this little bitty hedgehog that my girls wanted to take home...
We fed the one giraffe...but no pictures
and We got to let a porcupine sniff us...he wasn't hungry and as far as true "petting" goes...well...he's a porcupine...still he did sniff us quite a bit...He was the first porcupine on a leash that I've ever seen...
To our animal loving girls, it was pretty wonderful.
A great kick off to Girly Trip 2011.
See ya around...
1 comment:
A couple years back, we went on a ZOO vacation. Wichita zoo was the BEST! I think that's where we saw zebras chase each other for a looooong time. Looks like you all had a good time! I enjoyed this post.
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