The Wild Side of Virginia

After dropping Spence, Cam, and friends off at EFY on Monday, Ellie and I were faced with a decision.  Turn right back around and go straight home.  Or find something fun to do before embarking on the nearly 3-hour drive.

And it didn't take too much persuasion on Ellie's part, for us to opt for a little fun first.... 

by going on our very first  drive through safari (this picture is of the car in front of us)....

where we got up close and personal with the animals....

We petted their soft fur....

fed them buckets of food...

or in some cases, the whole bucket...

we rolled up the window when certain scarier animals came near (anything big that had horns or antlers)....

We laughed at how they begged for food....

Or just seemed a little curious...

We got excited when our favorite animals came....

and commented to each other how cute some of them were...

 especially the babies...

We did a fair amount of screaming (like when the ostrich, instead of going after the food, started pecking at the car and then my hand, startling me into throwing the entire bucket over my shoulder, scattering little pellets of grain all over our freshly vacuumed car)....

but mostly it was a whole lot of giggling (from the young and the old in the car)...

We made the loop twice, laughing the whole way, and Ellie proclaimed it her best Mommy-daughter date ever....

And I couldn't have agreed more.  :)