Axl and His Daddy (me) – Look What We Did!

 

I know what you’re thinking: “More pictures of the dog?”  Well, yes.  You may also be thinking, “Oh, come ON!  Yes, he’s a very cute dog, but enough already!”  My answer to that is “this is my blog, so nah nah-nah nah nah!”

 Anyway, a few days ago, Axl and the Myrtle Beach Website Designer, aka Axl’s daddy, aka me, went to the courtyard inside my condo building and played around while Bingles took pictures.

So without further ado:

 

 

 Here, I’m trying to get Axl to jump at me by moving my arms around and going “bwaaaaah!!!” at him.  Without going into much detail, it worked.

 

 

I love when he just looks up and stares at me.  He’s learned that when he sits, he gets treats or I put his leash on to take him out.  So now, he just constantly sits to try to get rewards.  I guess that’s a good thing; at least he’s not running the streets and smoking the pot. 

 

 

Daddy and Axl, sittin’ in a tree…. 

 

 

“Daddy, when’s she going to stop taking pictures?” 

 

 

 

“As soon as I take my glasses off for one last shot, buddy.”

 

I want to end this post by encouraging people to get a pet before having any children.  Simply put, if you don’t do well with the pet, you shouldn’t have any kids.

Salsa Bootcamp and Salsa Party – Look What We Did!

 

Those who follow our blog will remember the site we made for Salsa Queen Productions, who does Latin Dance Classes and Events in the Myrtle Beach area!

Well, Bingles and I can hardly resist an opportunity to break loose and dance all night long!So we’ve been swept up in Salsa fever (and Merengue fever, and also Bachata….um, bronchitis).

On the Salsa Queen site, they list upcoming Latin Dance Events in the Myrtle Beach area. The most recent was the Latin Dance Bootcamp, followed later that night by the Salsa Party at the Caribbean Bar & Grill in Myrtle Beach.

Because we were busy, well, dancing, we didn’t get a lot of pictures, but here’s one that Adalia, the Salsa Queen herself, took of us during the bootcamp:

I believe we are doing the Bachata in this one.  Bachata is Bingles’ favorite dance.

The Salsa bootcamp is basically a 5-hour salsa class, where you are taught everything from the basics all the way to some higher-level intermediate stuff. It’s really a great way to learn how to salsa quickly!

We’ve been taking her classes on a somewhat-regular basis, so we weren’t exactly starting from scratch, but it’s always good to get a solid refresher course.

Then later on that same night, we went over to the Caribbean Bar & Grill and got down at the Salsa Party!

Here’s a picture I took of Bingles dancing with Ernie, one of the other dance students:

Unfortunately, the batteries died after taking one picture (don’t buy a camera that uses AA’s) so this is the only one I got.

BUT, if you go over to the Salsa Queen Productions Picture Gallery, you can see some more pictures of both the Bootcamp and the Party.

We will be doing more of these parties and bootcamps in the future, and hopefully we’ll bring a camera with a full battery next time.

Shoveling Snow in Canada – Look What We Do for Love!

As I mentioned earlier, I just got back from beautiful, sunny cold, miserable Toronto.  And boy, is my throat tired (from coughing).

And no, it wasn’t all fun and lizard games either.  The wonderful thing about being slowly encased in snow is that you have to regularly shovel your way out.  This accomplishes very little, other than making you feel like you have some control, when in reality God is toying with you.

Bitter?  No.  But this is an excellent time to mention that Myrtle Beach is beautiful and sunny right now.  I walked around wearing shorts today.

So in case you are interested in looking at purchasing homes in a beautiful resort town where people wear shorts year-round, go to CohenMyrtleBeach.com!

Anyway, here are the pics:

 

Here I am, starting off on my trek to clear off the driveway and sidewalk.  I am wearing: 2 jackets, 2 pairs of pants, oversized boots, 2 pairs of socks, gloves and a hat. 

 

 

At the beginning, I felt like I was wasting my time.  Oddly enough, I felt the same way two hours later, when I looked outside and saw that everything was covered in snow again.

 

 

You’ll notice that Bingles’ neighbor is selling his house and moving away.  I wonder why….

 

 

Here I am, pissing in the wind shoveling more snow.  Bingles had fun telling her neighbors that this was my first time shoveling snow.

 

 

As you can see, I had no idea what I was doing.  At all.

 

 

At this point, the driveway was “done”, which means that it was safe to drive over for about 30-40 minutes.  Good job, Myrtle Beach Website Designer!

 

 

Next comes the salting.  Did you know they use actual salt?  I thought the term “salting” came from how you sprinkled it on the ground.  I had no idea it was real salt.

Amazing.

 

 

Bingles felt that I could be trusted with an ice scraper, even though I had never used one before.  I’m glad to report that no one got hurt.  Unfortunately, no ice was scraped either.  Again, I had no idea what I was doing.

So anyway, that was fun.  Once again, any person who is living in Canada, take some time to come down to Myrtle Beach.  Spend a week here, and then seriously tell me you want to leave.

Oh, and our gas is a lot cheaper too…

Latin Dancing in Myrtle Beach – Look What We’re Going to Be Doing!

Normally, we showcase the things that we’ve done in Myrtle Beach (and elsewhere).  But this time, we’re going to showcase what we’re GOING to do!

You may remember the SalsaQueenProductions.com website I made a couple weeks ago.  I’ve also done some flyer and promotional graphic design for Salsa Queen as well, including this flyer:

 

For those who can’t read it, here’s what it says:

SALSA!  MERENGUE!  BACHATA!

Latin Dance Classes
Mondays and Wednesdays
7:00 – 7:45 Beginners
7:45 – 8:30 Intermediate
Only $5 per Class!

Adalia’s Salsa Social
Every 3rd Saturday
7:00 – 8:30
Light Refreshments Served
Bring Friends & Family
Only $3 Entrance Fee!

At the Pepper Geddings Recreational Center

For more info go to
www.SalsaQueenProductions.com

 

For those who are interested in Latin Dancing, come check out the Classes and Events that Salsa Queen Productions offers!

Hanging with the Critters at Reptilia in Toronto – Look What We Did!

I don’t know if any of you have been following the weather in Canada.  If you haven’t, let me sum it up:

It’s freaking cold!  It is freeze-your-ass-off COLD!  It is several degrees below ZERO. 

FAHRENHEIT.

It’s not cold like “oh hey, it’s a bit nippy outside” cold. 

It’s more like “oh hey, my arm just fell off, but thankfully I’m too numb to feel it and I’m too frozen to bleed” cold!

So I did what any smart person would do, and I left beautiful, warm, sunny Myrtle Beach (where people are wearing shorts right now) and flew to Toronto see my beautiful Bingles.

Why, you might ask, would an otherwise smart person fly from a gorgeous resort town to a frozen wasteland?

THIS is why.

Ah yes, the beautiful Bingles.  Gorgeous inside and out.  So beautiful, so loving, so caring, so brilliant, so perfect in every way, that I knowingly flew to Coldtopia to spend a week experiencing what it’s like to freeze internally. 

So anyway, while I was up there, we decided to fulfill our addiction to critters (and pretend we weren’t in the Arctic) by going to Reptilia in Toronto.

Reptilia is a really cool place!  It’s kind of like a smaller version of Ripley’s Aquarium, except with reptiles instead of fishies.

Here are some pics that Bingles took of me cavorting with the swamp monsters.  There were a lot more creatures there, but here are the highlights:

 

We start off by meeting my new BFF, whom I’ve named Bert.  Bert was the patriarch of this particular clan of iguanas, so he kept a close eye on me at all times.

 

 

Here is Bert yawning.  He would also move his head up and down while puffing his little turkey-neck thingy (you gotta appreciate my scientific lingo).  I think this was meant to be some kind of alpha-male “step off my turf” display.  Anyway, I just did it back to him, not to threaten him but because I thought it was funny-looking, and I wanted him to see how silly it looked.

 

 

I named this iguana Ernie.  He slept the whole two hours we were there.  Watching him sleep made me tired, so we took a little nap together.

 

 

Feeling rested and refreshed, I decided to show my appreciation of nature by poking at angry snakes.  Incidentally, I have a pair of snakeskin shoes that are almost exactly the same color as this guy.  I didn’t tell him though.

 

 

Feeling somewhat amorous, I started to kiss every scaly thing in sight, starting with this snake.

 

 

This Gila Monster was one of the few things that actually was eager to kiss me  back.

And don’t think I didn’t appreciate it either.  It’s nice to feel loved.

 

 

It’s true what they say; kissing a bunch of strangers is tiring.  So I went back and napped a bit with Ernie.

 

 

Not wanting to do the stereotypical “toad kissing”, I chose to mock them by puffing my face out at them.

Unfortunately, amphibians are well-known for their lack of appreciation for physical comedy.

 

 

Reptilia is chock full of gators and crocs.  In fact, they have the largest crocodile in captivity, or the largest crocodile in Canada, or whatever.  Something like that.  They have a very big crocodile, so big that it has the distinction of being the largest something-or-other.

But he/she was hiding in the corner, so I decided to party with this guy, who in my humble opinion is the most friendly crocodile/alligator in all of the Greater Toronto Area.  Friendly, or maybe just hungry.

 

 

And yes, I kissed him too.

 

 

These guys were *ahem* busy.  I did not kiss them, as Bingles informed me that doing so would be a violation of several Canadian laws.

 

 

 

This angered me very much, and led me to have a temper tantrum, followed of course by another nap.

 

Unfortunately, we did not get any pictures of the feeding we got to watch up close and personal.  We were about 3 feet away while one of the employees took out some kind of fairly large lizard (a Ruta?  Guta?  something like that) and fed him/her a bunch of dead rats.  Sweet.

 

We also didn’t get any good pics of their King Cobra.  Apparently, it is Canada’s Largest Venomous Snake, which is amazing because Canada is well-known for their tropical snakes.

 

Anyway, Reptilia is a great place for critter-lovers in or around Toronto.  Lots of fun, and they keep it nice and warm in there (which was much-appreciated).

And the price is pretty fair too.  It was less than $30 (even after Canada’s consumer-raping sales taxes) and their staff is very courteous and knowledgeable.

So, for any people in Canada who are still thawed enough to read this, head on over to Reptilia, and tell them Myrtle Beach Website Designer sent you!

Even though they don’t know who I am…

Riverbanks Zoo Revisited – Look What We Did!

On one of our first posts, I showed some pictures of Bingles and I visiting the Silverback Gorillas at the Riverbanks Zoo.  On that post, I said that we would talk more about our visit in a future post.

Well, at Myrtle Beach Website Designer, we keep our promises!  So, without further ado, here they are:

 

 Whether it’s dogs, giant cats, sea monsters or goats, I love to feed them.  Whenever I go to a zoo, I tend to make a beeline for the petting zoo.

 

 

 This is a baboon.  I can’t really come up with anything to add about this.  Other than maybe to say that I wish we hadn’t been separated by a moat, because then I could’ve fed him.

Come to think of it, that’s probably why the moat is there.

 

 

 Here is the lovely Bingles posing in front of her favorite creature, the noble Lion.  This particular noble Lion is sleeping with his mouth wide open, which makes him appear all the more noble.

 

 

 Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to feed the giraffes.  There were a bunch of schoolkids in front of us, and by the time they were finished, they were wrapping up the giraffe feeding for the day.  Oh well, we’ll be back…

 

 

 These zebras look antisocial in the picture, but they were actually pretty friendly.  They liked trotting by the visitors and showing off their coats.

 

 

The elephant on the left was quite the diva (or divo).  She (or he) made a point of being in all the pictures. 

 

 

 See?  A few minutes after that first pic, Bingles started posing for this one.  All of a sudden, Diva started charging over to be behind her in time for the shot.  As you can see, she made it.

 

 

 There’s Joe Cool (who’s actually me) in front of the Flamingos.  These guys were a lot of fun to look at.  Hey kids, here’s an interesting fact: did you know that Flamingos get their pinkish/red coloring from eating shrimp?  Apparently the chemical that makes shrimp pinkish/red also makes anything that eats it pinkish/red.

So, you know…be careful with that.

 

 

Beautiful Bingles in front of the Flamingos.  What’s funny is, right after this pic was taken, they started losing their minds and got into this huge Flamingo riot.  I think they were fighting over Bingles, but it could’ve also been shrimp-related. 

 

 

 Bingles in front of one of the Bears.  I’ve seen Bears at other zoos before, but these guys were far more animated than I’ve ever seen before.  In fact….

 

 

 …once it was my turn to have my pic taken in front of them (and look how great my smile is) they started wrestling.  This, too, could’ve been shrimp-related.

 

Well, that’s about it for the pics.  We took hundreds of shots, but most of them were blurry, I think because we were shaking with excitement as we took them.

We’re hoping to get back to Riverbanks sometime in January, so we may very well have to re-revisit this topic.

Ripley’s Aquarium – Look What We Did!

As we’ve talked about in an earlier post, Bingles and I are members of Ripley’s Aquarium, which is at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach.

It is an amazing, almost surreal experience to walk through an OCEAN, and have sharks, fish, turtles, eels and rays swim over you!  We will sometimes spend hours there, just watching all the fish.

One of our favorite things is when the sea creatures actually swim up to you and look at you.  Ever have a tiger shark check you out?  If not, go to Ripley’s Aquarium!

To give you an idea of the “layout” of the aquarium, here is a promotional pic:

 

This picture is obviously at least a little silly, and no they don’t swim out at you.  But it is an accurate layout of how you are actually walking under Ripley’s Aquarium.

In reality, though, no picture can truly show what it is like to experience the Aquarium.

That said, here are a bunch of pictures:

 

We start our gallery on our best foot, with a picture of the beautiful and exquisite Bingles, posing with some of our seaborne friends.

 

This is (I believe) a Leopard shark swimming over us.  Take a minute to think about that sentence.

 

We kept trying to get a picture of Bingles with a shark swimming behind her, but the slow shutter speed of the camera wasn’t cooperating.  The best part of the pic was preserved though.

 

This is a tiger shark looking at us as it begins to swim above us.  In the top right corner, you’ll notice the nose of a sawfish.

 

Success!  Bingles is seen here with what I believe is a sawfish, which is a type of shark.  I think.

 

Ever had a shark swim up to you?  THIS EXPERIENCE IS MORE THAN WORTH THE $20 ADMISSION!

 

Here’s that same shark swimming over us.  Keep in mind, I am not zooming the camera; the shark is that close to us!

 

Here’s Bingles posing with…who cares.  Look how hot she is!

 

Two tiger sharks palling around.  On a side note, I’m not sure why the pictures are so dark.  In reality, the Aquarium is incredibly well-lit.

 

Now one of them is swimming over us.  There are about 5 tiger sharks in the Aquarium, and a few dozen sharks in total.

 

Sawfish and leopard sharks tend to lay around a lot, which seems to debunk the whole theory that sharks don’t sleep.

 

Here’s a sawfish swimming over us.

 

Here’s the turtle (or tortoise).  I don’t know what kind of turtle (or tortoise) it is.  I only know that he (or she) spends most of his (or her) time trying to eat the fake vegetation in the Aquarium, which is further validation that we are smarter than sea animals.

 

Beauty and the Beast.

 

Beauty and the Beast II.  This time it’s personal.

 

Finally, a picture of me.  This picture took almost an hour to get right, but it was well worth it. 

 

Hey baby, is that a shark behind you, or am I just happy to see you?

 

Here are a few of our swimming buddies.

 

Oddly enough, the eels are one of the most fascinating critters in the Aquarium.  Fascinating and ugly.

 

Bingles with a horseshoe crab.  What’s funny about this exhibit, the attendants spend a bunch of time explaining how much the crabs hate being taken out of the water, and then they encourage you to take them out of the water.  They have virtually no meat in their legs, so I was not terribly interested in them.  But any hands-on experience with a wild sea creature is fun.

 

Being a Myrtle Beach native, I’ve seen a lot of jellyfish.  But they’ve always been dead and washed up on the beach.  Here you can actually see them alive and swimming around.  They also shine some kind of neon light on them that makes them glow.  It’s really neat to get up close and watch these things pulsate around.  It reminds me of the Nintendo game Metroid.

 

We end our picture tour with a shot of the happy couple.  I will post more pictures as we take them, and I assure you there will be more.  We’ll get some pics of the Giant Grouper (biggest fish in the Aquarium, and very shy) as well as their Octopus (or Squid, I always forget which it is).

For now, I’ll just say that if you are in Myrtle Beach and are not deathly afraid of walking under millions of gallons of water filled with giant sea monsters that want to eat you, go to Ripley’s Aquarium!

Freezing in Canada – Look What We Did!

Sorry I haven’t posted here in a few days.  I spent the last week in Canada with my wonderful Bingles, and I didn’t have time to make updates.

I also didn’t have time to take many pictures of what we’ve done up there, which include:

* The CN Tower

* Casa Loma

* Riding the Toronto Subway (I think it’s called the Go Train)

* Giving change to street performers

* and much much more

Fortunately, I do have a picture of me spending some quality time with my favorite dog in all of Canada, Gemma!

Gemma is my little sweetie. My little 100 lb. sweetie.

Who likes snuggles? Does Gemma like snuggles? Yes she does! Yes she does!

She’s a great girl.  She’s very attached to Bingles, but when I’m in town she stays around me, mostly because I spoil her.

Anyway, I’m back now and I’ll be putting some new stuff on the blog, so you can all breathe a sigh of relief.

Alligator Adventure – Look What We Did!

Have an affinity for reptile monsters that would love to eat you? Of course you do! Go to Alligator Adventure!

 

If it involves wild animals, warm weather and more wild animals, Bingles and I are there!  Especially if it’s in Myrtle Beach, although this is technically in North Myrtle Beach.  Yes, it’s a separate city…

Today’s feature is Alligator Adventure, which is part of Barefoot Landing.  We go there all the time, and for good reason.  Here is just a partial list of the creatures they have there:

• Alligators by the hundreds.
• Crocodiles, also by the hundreds.
• Utan, King of the Crocodiles (assumably because he’s so big, not because any actual royal lineage).
• Dozens of turtles, including giant Galapagoses (Galapagosii?).
• Dozens of exotic birds, including macaw parrots and these pinkish things that look like ostriches but are, in fact, not ostriches.
• Hundreds of reptiles, including iguanas and weird frogs of all types (yes I know they’re amphibians).
• Hundreds of snakes (yes I know they’re also reptiles) including a king cobra and some anacondas.
• River Otters (I love River Otters).
• Bison (I love River Otters).
• An extended family of Lemurs, which I tried to join.
• Two Tigers, which we watched fight over a duck one of them had killed.

The facility at Alligator Adventure is pretty big, with raised wooden walkways that take you throughout the man-made animal kingdom.  Of course, there are always fences around the walkways, because apparently alligators are excellent jumpers.

For the sake of brevity (and laziness) I only included about a dozen pics, and these do not do the place justice.  Literally everywhere you look, there are several exotic wild creatures staring back at you, with that “I want to eat you, but this fence is too high to jump” look on their faces.

What’s cool is, they have the gators (and crocs) in the water with fish, turtles, lizards, birds and everything else that would naturally be with them.  Because they are kept VERY well-fed, they don’t try to eat their neighbors. 

Although they do sometimes chase the turtles around, which is funny.

Anyway, here are some pics, as always:

Gators, gators, and more gators...

 

...or maybe they're crocodiles.

  

It's fun to watch Galapagos tortoises eat salad. That salad looked good too.

 

We sat on the floor and watched the lemurs for almost an hour. Towards the end, the started walking up to the glass, sitting down and staring back at us. It was hilarious!

 

They have two Albino alligators, which there are only a few of on the whole planet. They cannot live in the wild, because of their sensitivity to sunlight.

 

I forget if this is the other albino, or just a close-up of the same one.

 

Who doesn't love babies?

 

Bingles posing with our new buddies.

 

Here I am, posing with Utan, King of the Crocodiles. This photo doesn't do him justice; he's H-U-G-E!

 

"I am not a crook!"

 

We like to watch the live feedings, as well as the baby gator shows.  If you’ve never pet a gator, here’s your chance.

ATTENTION JEWISH PEOPLE!  I have been informed by my Rabbi that it is against Jewish Law to touch a reptile.  So if you do, don’t tell your Rabbi.

Admission is $16.95 for adults, $14.95 for seniors, $10.95 for kids 4-12, and FREE for kids under 4!

And keep your tickets, because they’re good for another FREE visit within 7 days of your first visit!

So come on down to (North) Myrtle Beach and visit Alligator Adventure!

Hanging out with T.I.G.E.R.S. – Look What We Did!

 

Bingles and me, we like animals. We especially like big animals. Preferably with fangs.

So when we found out about The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (which, coincidentally, spells T.I.G.E.R.S.) we booked the first tour of the site we could get.

T.I.G.E.R.S. does daily free shows at Barefoot Landing in North Myrtle Beach during the summer from 5pm-8pm.  We love going there to look at the baby and adult tigers, as well as the monkeys.

At Barefoot, T.I.G.E.R.S. also gives you an opportunity to get ripped off have your picture taken with a monkey for about $90.  That didn’t interest us at all.

But when Bingles found out that we could go to their 50-acre preserve and interact with all sorts of wild animals, we jumped at the chance.  It cost about $350 for the two of us, but it was Bingles’ birthday, so why not?

So later that week, we were on our way to Socastee, which is hilarious because when you think of Socastee, you don’t exactly think “exotic animals.”

Anyway, when we got there, we were greeted by a huge guy in a kilt.  We don’t have a picture of him, so here’s an artist’s rendering:

He didn't really look like this.

He was a great guy, and he told us all about the T.I.G.E.R.S. Preserve.  He also summoned a hawk (he’s a hawkmaster, or a hawk guru, or something like that) and told us he would show us some other birds later.

Next, we were brought into a really nice building that overlooked the Preserve.  We had to sign releases, saying that we recognized that wild animals like to kill humans, including us, blah blah blah…

As we were doing this, we were invited to go outside and meet someone named Hercules:

This is Hercules.

Hercules is a liger, which is a mix of a lion and a tiger. It’s pretty much my favorite animal. And Hercules is the largest feline alive; over 11 feet long, and weighing half a ton. This cat is crazy big, and we loved watching him drink from a baby bottle fed by a barely 5ft. tall woman (sorry, no pics).

Next, they brought out a bangarong bongaring bearcat, and he walked across our laps. We were then invited to smell our fingers:

I like Doritos.

Bearcats secrete some chemical that smells like doritos, which apparently is hated by predators. Hey, to each his own….more Doritos for me.

Next, we met back up with Kilt Man and got some one-on-one time with a HUGE owl.

Now, I’ve never really though much of owls. I didn’t dislike them, I had just never put a lot of thought into them one way or the other.

After this experience, I am now a BIG fan of owls. This guy’s eyes were mezmorizing. They were huge and shiny. He was a real beauty. And he must’ve sensed that I thought he was cool, because in between pictures he would turn his head all the way around and stare right at me.

Next, we were taken to Baby Tiger Central.  No, that’s not what they call it, that’s what I call it…

Bingles loves baby tigers.

Me too.

 First, they put the babys next to you so they can get comfortable with your scent.  At this age (I have no idea what the age is) their eyes are still shut, so they only go by smell.

Next, they put the babies in your lap:

She started crying soon after this.

 These little guys were so cute.  It was surprisingly similar to a large regular cat, which is amazing because these guys were newborns.

After that, they brought out some slightly older cubs:

This little guy loved Bingles.

For some reason, I look scared in this picture. I actually was upset that the lady to the right was trying to take the kitty from us.

But we got to keep him.

One thing to note: one of the tiger breeds they have is the Golden Tabby Tiger, which at one point was extinct.  But T.I.G.E.R.S. has worked hard, breeding tigers together that had the recessive Tabby gene, to literally bring them back into existence!

So if you do go, you’ll feel good knowing you are helping to renew a once-extinct species!

Anyway, next we were given a photo-op with an even older cub (again, I have no idea of the ages):

For those looking at this who know just how much Bingles loves big cats, you can appreciate these pictures.

Bingles loves big cats more than most humans.  Oddly enough, she’s not a fan of regular-sized cats, but she has a real thing for big ones.  Needless to say, she was in Big Cat Heaven. 

Unfortunately, we have no pictures of the best part of this tour, which is when we walked through the forest, surrounded by dozens of tigers and ligers.

It was one of the most exhilirating things in my left, to walk in the middle of these giant cats, as they all stared at us, probably wondering how stupid we were to be doing this.  If only they had known we had actually PAID to do it…

Next we had a light lunch, and then came the primates.  Here are a few of the highlights:

I never held a monkey before.

The above picture is one of my favorite of all time.  I told everyone that they looked like our kids. They have the same hair color as Bingles, and they have my nose and ears.

Also, they were acting like typical kids; one looking at the camera and smiling, and the other holding Mommy and pouting.

During the picture-taking, the camerawoman put my shades on the chimp.

Our fun with the primates coming to a close, we then went back to the main building.  When we got there, we were greeted by some wolf puppies.  Some of the people on the tour were scared, but I just kept thinking “doggies!  doggies!  doggies!”  I love doggies.  Doggies are the best animals in the world.

And these wolf pups were just like your typical doggies, just as happy as could be to climb in your lap, sniff you all over and lick your face.  I LOVED IT!  Sorry, no pics.

Fortunately, we did get our picture taken with an adult wolf:

I looooove doggies.

After all the wild animal fun was done, we went back in the main building and had ice cream, granola bars, cheese and crackers, and various other snack foods.  And yes, we did fill our pockets.

What?  I paid $350 to get in there.  I’m taking some Sun Chips with me.

Anyway, for anyone who wants to get some literally hands-on interaction with all sorts of awesome animals, go see T.I.G.E.R.S. Preserve.  They now have an elephant, and you can swim in a pool with it.  Yes, we are going back.

And if you’re looking for some free tiger-watching, go to Barefoot Landing and check out the T.I.G.E.R.S. showcase from 5pm-8pm during the summer months.

And if you want to get ripped off, pay $90 to have your picture taken with a monkey They also offer photographs with the animals.