My brother and his family came to ATL when the girls and I were there and we spent Labor Day weekend together. I was really excited because usually we see each other in short spurts and it is crazy. We were all looking forward to just spending a few days together. We decided to pack up two mini vans on Sunday and head to the Wild Animal Safari in Pine Mountain GA. Ayda went with my mom and step dad back in June and has talked about "the BIG animals" ever since. I knew she would be so excited to go. So we drove 1 1/2 hours to the safari with 6 kids (ranging in age from 5 months to 6 years) and 5 adults. It was going to be wild!!!
When we arrived we quickly realized it was packed. A lot of people had the same idea as us apparently. We were originally planning to rent a 15 passenger van. But the wait for one of those was 2 hours. Um yea...not going to work with our crew. There was also no way we were going to just pack up and head back home. So we took the car seats out of my van, folded the seats down and piled in. Yes all 11 of us! It was tight but oh so fun!
Sweet Micah was a little terrified at first. But after about 10 minutes of cuddling with his momma and then Grand-Pam he was actually willing to go up to the window and check out the animals...at a distance! He was such a trooper!
This picture says it all as far as what Ayda thought of the whole thing! She was SO excited to see the BIG animals again!
Check out that insane tongue! I mean seriously!
Jack was so fun to watch. He was very much boy, yet timid as well. He wanted to feed the animals and would get all geared up to do so...then the animal would come in the window and straight at him. He quickly chucked the food at the animal. He even managed to get a piece of food in one of the animal's nostrils. It was pretty impressive.
My SIL with three of the four Lewis munchkins!!!
Hadley played it safe in the front seat chilling with Uncle Josh. I don't think either of them minded having a front seat with the windows UP!
Papaw really got into feeding the animals. I will not go into detail of how gross Papaw's hands were at the end of the safari, but it required some serious hand washing afterwards!
Micah holding Grand-Pam's hand in all the chaos around him! So sweet!
Wish the picture had sounds effects of all the kids giggling and squealing!
Izzie was one of the bravest I think. She loved seeing all the animals. Her favorite was the Gruffalos! And she was NOT impressed with the slover!
Abby ready to do some serious animal feeding!
I managed to snag some sweet hugs and giggles from my little animal lover!
And why not end with this picture of Papaw taking care of the animals! It was a fun fun trip to the safari! Great memories were made!
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