Outnumbered: Lake Tobias

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Lake Tobias


What a great day!  It was 70 degrees and sunny.  The perfect breeze.  We drove up the back roads of Central Pennsylvania to this awesome wildlife preserve.  The kids had a blast.  I loved watching the goats attack them for crackers in the petting zoo.  We took a safari bus out into the open range and got to drive right up to all the animals...no fences.  Super cool.  Here are some pics from the day...and don't worry we didn't get any memories of the animals engaging in their spring time "activities"!  Ethan kept asking why the animals were hugging!
                                 Zoom in on this top picture and you can see the deer climbing and  

                         the safari bus and Eric and Ethan are going to pet it!  It even knew how to
                        "side-step with his back legs so he could stay on while the bus was moving.

                                                     Bison, a.k.a. large and matted beast.

                                            Here is Ethan and I waiting on the safari bus


                                 These are the cutest ever little fuzzy deer from Europe...


              They were loving the beautiful day and didn't mind us coming right up to them!


                                     Can't remember what this is...but it was scary up close!


                                           Here you can see Nik's hand petting the deer.


This is called a "hippie cow".  She was HUGE.  She had a calf she was nursing and together
                                                              they came right up to the bus.


                                        Ethan and dad by the worlds friendliest camel...


                          Zoom in on this one and you can see him trying to lick Eric's ear!


                                                                              and Sam's...

                                                Quite sunburned, but quite worth it!

6 comments:

Kelli said...

Sounds like you guys had a blast. Where exactly was this place? It looks awesome. The only place we have ever taken our kids was the Pittsburgh Zoo! It would be fun to go somewhere else!!

Traci said...

That place is sooo fun. We will have to take our kids to it, they have never been. So loved the safari ride in the chopped off bus!!
Glad you guys had a blast and great weather too! I will have to show this post to my tykes, they will love it!
Sorry we couldn't make it for the long weekend, but hopefully soon before the baby comes!!!

Bracken and Bracken said...

Looks like fun! Sorry we missed out :) All is well here, give the boys a hug for me.

Lisa B. said...

Bon you look great. i still love the hair cut. your boys are getting so big. i cant wait to all hang out

Traci said...

I showed these to H and he thinks the big white hairy thing just might be a YAK????

Nicole said...

looks like fun! we'll have to try it out with the girly girls! by the way, you definitely beat me with the strawberries this year!