wildlife animal sanctuary

Along with my parents, we all headed up north to check out The Wildlife Animal Sanctuary. It's a sanctuary for large carnivores - tigers, bears, lions, etc. A majority of these animals were rescued from abuse, neglect and euthanasia all over the country. At first, the kids thought we were heading to the zoo or to Wildlife Experience but as we drove on the highway, I pointed out a couple billboards with a picture of a tiger featuring TWAS and the kids got all excited. It was almost 100 degress today so it was pretty hot when we got there. As we drove up to the facility we spotted several black bears by the entrance. Inside, we saw a lot of tigers, a few lions, horses and also a camel which was rescued from euthanasia. We were also lucky enough to see 2 young cubs, 6 months old, being released in a lock down field. Watching the cubs playing with the dogs was pretty neat. While we were there, we had a picnic lunch then soon after headed home.

1K fun run

Little nael completed her first 1K fun run this morning at her new school. The morning started off with a 5K and snowboarder ran while nael and I cheered him on. About an hour later, nael took off with snowboarder down the hill, around the loop and up the hill down to the finish line. According to snowboarder, nael ran halfway till the water station, walked a few feet then when snowboarder pointed out a boy running past her, nael decided to run the rest of the way all the way to the finish line. Woohooo! When she got done, nael said she had so much fun and wants to run again. Atta girl!