Vacation Day 2...Fossil Rim

On Thursday, we headed over to Glen Rose to Fossil Rim to checkout some wild life. It is a 9 1/2 mile drive through lots of exotic animals. The kids loved it as did Jacob and I. They gave you a brochure with all the animals you might see, so as we went along, I drove and Jacob told us what everything was and marked it off our list. We also got a bag of food so we could lure the animals closer to the car to get a good look....and let me tell you, we got up close and personal with a few :) Dinosaurs at the entrance

a baby Zebra, there were LOTS of zebras

some kind of deer also LOTS of these

he wasn't too interested in visitors

Even the animals thought it was hot, check out his tongue stuck out.

We raised the back glass in the expedition and this is where the kids rode in between herds of animals.

This guy cracked me up, at one time his head was in the car between me and the steering wheel.

Jacob LOVED all the bid deer, (I think he was imagining hunting them).

The 1/2 point from the trail

Looking out from the 1/2 point. There was a really neat gift shop and restraunt up there.

Giraffe...if you look really close you can see his tongue picking leaves off the tree.

technically, the giraffes were the only animal you were supposed to be able to feed by hand, but none of them would come up to the cars. Still Beautiful.

Colton and a zebra

Me and a zebra. These were the friendliest animals.

The picture doesn't do justice, but his spots were REALLY dark, very different from the rest of the giraffes.

the bully

a cave, right around the corner the road went right over the cave.

rhino

Ostrich....a.k.a. Jacob's favorite....NOT. He was hillarious to watch :)

and finally a buffalo. We didn't see him until we were out on the road to leave.

After we left Fossil Rim, we went down the road to the Dinosaur Valley State Park (lots of dinosaur things to do out there). I'll have to make another post for that one.