Our Family Stay-cation!

After Shaun was away for 3 weeks for work, we decided to take a few days off work and have some family time! Unfortunately, for the first few days we were all sick with a stomach bug Evelyn brought home from daycare! :( But, after we recovered we decided to explore some of the local features of Oklahoma!


GW Exotic Animal Park:
Just south of the city, this is a safe-haven for exotic animals. All the animals in their possession have been rescued. They mainly have large cats (tigers, lions, cougars, etc) but also have some reptiles, monkeys, wolfs and birds. We went on a behind-the-scenes tour which allowed us to get even closer to the animals, including playing with a baby tiger cub!!

Evelyn had a chance to pet the baby tiger cub!

This Lion, named Elvis, was completely preoccupied with Evelyn's stroller!
They warned us that the cats could "spray" through the fence. We found out the hard way that it was true! A female tiger decided to aim towards us, but only got the roof of our stroller! Yuk!
Tigers are the only felines that enjoy water! This large cat was just soaking in his water bucket!
This lion was laying on his back just staring at us! Every once in a while he'd lick his chops---maybe we looked tasty!


Arbuckle Wilderness: Also south of the city, this park lets you drive through and feed the animals from your car! We learned very quickly that the animals have no fear of our 4-wheeled vehicles and that they will steal entire cups of animal food!!
isn't he cute?
The giraffes were our favorites! They had to lean WAY down to get the food! :)
Exhibit A: Zebra stealing the entire cup of food! I guess he has stripes for a reason--he's a criminal!
Evelyn learning pointers from the monkeys!!


Our little girl is growing up so fast!! 10 months old!
The view from the front seat---our little girl is tuckered out from all the fun!



Oklahoma City Science Museum: This is really designed for older children, but Shaun and I had a blast playing with all the displays! Evelyn was able to get in on a little bit of the action! We also took in a movie in the Dome theater! It made us all feel like we were in the ocean with the fish! :)