Saturday: I checked the weather before Aidan and I left this morning and the forecast is down to 0% chance of rain after 11am this morning and all throughout the afternoon. Thank you, Lord!
We arrived at Deer Tracks Junction at about 10:20 (due to closed roads and misunderstood detours on my part), purchased our tickets, a cup of carrots (for the goats, pigs, etc.), and three seed sticks for the Budgies.
Aidan wanted to begin with the PIGS so that's where we went first. Aidan has quite a collection of PIG stuffed animals, many of which he brought to the sleepover last night. I love to watch him with these little guys. He is so amused with them and so kind to them.
They had signage stating NOT to feed the pigs by hand but rather to drop the carrots on the ground and let them retrieve the food that way. Evidently, these little guys mistake fingers for food ...
Aidan was very careful as he walked and dropped carrots for them.
We had a whole group around us for a long time--these little piglets were hungry!
Aidan said the little black one was his favorite.
Just behind the pig enclosure is where the llamas are kept. Aidan wasn't interested in feeding the llamas. Perhaps he has seen one-too-many videos of spitting llamas ...
Aidan was very content to stay right here with the pigs. He fed them every single carrot!
The EMU are right next to the pigs. At the end of the last season here at the park, the EMU were quite large. But these little ones are only a few months old. The bigger EMUs were located in an enclosure next to this one. These "babies" were quite aggressive when I held out a carrot. I was glad I was quick in my release or their beak would have pinched me quite hard! They are very cute, though, aren't they?
Quite endearing, I would say!
Since we were all out of carrots, we moved on to the Budgie house. I had a feeling that Aidan would NOT be relaxed in here with all of these birds--and I was right. He very soon gave me his seed sticks and got himself to a shady section where no people were feeding the birds and just watched for a little bit. I asked him to take a few pictures first, so he did.
I finally handed off the two cups and remaining seed to a few children whose seeds had run out, and then Aidan and I left the Budgies and went on to explore elsewhere.
This wheel tube is very cool--all the kiddos like messing around with it. Since it had rained so hard overnight, it was a little damp inside--see the little puddles? Aidan did a pretty good hamster imitation for awhile and got the tube moving.
We remembered to bring a hand flashlight as well as the headband flashlight for exploring tunnels. Ten years ago (!!) I also went into the tunnels and crawled around with the kids ... and even climbed to the very tippy top! I can no longer do that (sadly). Aidan had a blast, though, crawling around from structure to structure, in and out of tunnels.
I love heights! I so regret my painful knees because it really puts the damper on climbing, stairs, squatting, etc. But I really have nothing to complain about when I consider at other folk's health struggles.
I'll post some more pictures in a bit ...
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