Northwest Trek

I haven't blogged in quite a while, so this is one of 4 posts I've done today. As you'll read about in the next post, Jonathan's parents went on an Alaskan cruise and left from Seattle. They docked in yesterday and were able to spend yesterday and today with us before flying back to Idaho. We took them and the kids to Northwest Trek, a zoo-type park that has animals indigenious to the northwest area. I think we enjoyed it more than the kids, but oh well. We walked around some exhibits then took a tram ride through a free-roaming area. I'm so glad I had the long lens because most of the animals in their exhibits were far away. The first thing we saw was this gray wolf.

Dean reading up on the animals

Grizzly Bear

The tram ride was cool because a lot of the animals were right next to us so we got to see them up close.

Interesting fact about bison: see that huge hump on his back? That is all muscle, and without it, bison would not be able to hold up their huge heads. I thought you'd all want to know.

Dean enjoyed actually riding the "train" more than seeing the animals. Whatever.

Herd of buffalo

Grandpa tried his best to keep Dawson to behave, too bad it didn't work!

Jonathan and his Mom.

The absolute best part of the day was visiting the Wetlands. We saw beavers and otters. The beavers were very friendly and came right up to the glass by the kids' faces. They loved it!

They were screaming and laughing, it was really fun.