Our Trip To The Wilds

Back in August we went on a little trip to Cumberland, Ohio to take in all the wonders that THE WILDS has to offer. I had never been before and thought that it would be pretty sweet riding around watching the animals as they roam around as they please. The first part of the trip takes you around and basically explains what they do and how they came about. (I am not going to get into all that because I have a million other things to post about.) In the first section we were able to see a few different animals but the ones we were able to get closest to were the giraffes and Przewalski wild horses.

Just after we saw those animals the bus stops and allows to to walk down to a dock. While at the dock we were able to feed these CRAZY catfish. Braeden absolutely loved it.

Here are those catfish going nuts over the food we were tossing to them.

As you can see from the picture below the animals can get very close to the buses that drive by. The down side of this is that there is a chance that you could pay to check these animals out but may never get to see them.

Once the giraffe finally decided to let our bus pass we were taken down the road to the wetlands section of the park. There really weren't any animals to check out but there were a million different plants.

After walking around at the wetlands Braeden took a short rest and then, since we had plenty of time before our bus came, decided to mess around with Travis.

"HAHA I caught you Travis!"

He can't stop laughing.

Do you think he is having a good time?

After the wetlands it is off to the mid-sized carnivore conservation center where we were able to see the African wild dogs and cheetahs. Here is a picture of Braeden with his serious face on in front of the wild dogs.

They also had a snack bar at this point of the trip where Braeden was able to flirt with one of the girls who works there.

On our way out of the mid-sized carnivore center Braeden had to hide behind a sign because the cheetah was thinking he may be a good afternoon snack. Actually he is hiding just to be silly but the cheetah was keeping a good eye on him as we walked back to the bus.

The trip ended with the animals of the grasslands. Here the animals were trying to hide out so the pictures were taken from pretty far away but because of our awesome camera still came out sweet.

Here are the Scimitar-horned oryx.

The southern white rhino refused to come close for a picture.

The zebra did sneak up to check us out but didn't want to get too close either.

Braeden was beat by the end of the trip and passed out on my lap while on the bus. Hopefully next time he will be able to fight off the sleep monster until the ride home.