Over the holidays!

Hey readers. Sorry I didn't update in a while. I was a little bit busy over the holidays. I made a new layout though, and as you can see I made a spring theme. I always thought spring started on the 21st of March, but some people say its now on the 1st of March. Apparently is has been brough forward due to global warming. Either way, I really did need a new layout :P

As you can see in the title, I am about to tell you what I did over this short two week holiday.
Mari got to go Skiing with our neighbor Theo and his family, so me mom and Tomas decided to do something fun as well.

First we went to Hippopotamus which is one of those resturaunts that sales loads of meat and has a lot of Americans in there, even though we're in France :P
It was very nice though. In the end we got to keep the Hippopotamus shaped swizzle sticks to mix drinks and the Hippopotamus shaped things they put in food for decoration. :)

Then a couple of days later we went to a local Nature reserve Park that only kept animals that they had saved or taken from Circuses or Zoos. most of the park is a drive through one so the animals aren't in cages, but there was some parts where you could walk around.

We saw all different kind of animals, Deer, Oxes, Elephants, Giraffs, Zebras, Lions, more deer, Hippos, Ostridges, Bears, goats, wolves, tigers, otters, snakes, red pandas, turtles, Lynxes, and loads more I'm not listing.

My favorite we're the Giraffs, hippos, tigers, Elephants and wolves, but I most likely would have liked the otters one the best if they hadn't been sleeping.

The Giraffs had these really tall pilers that had a huge cube of hay attached to them to they didn't have to bend their necks to eat. I've heard a myth that if Giraffs lower their heads to the ground, they will for some reason vomit. I always think of how long it'd, take because they're necks are so long…

"What are those rocks doing there?" you might be asking. Or at least that's what I thought at first glance. But this is none other then a family of Hippopotamus. All six (there's a hidden baby) of these Hippos are lazily sleeping in the sun. As you can see they have a huge lake to swim in, and they are obviously well fed :D

In the bear section, there was about 15 bears, most of which were black bears. There was a couple of brown bears too though.

All the bears (especially the one in the picture) reminded me of Gracie for some reason. Almost more then the wolves did. They're body language was almost identical to Gracie's even though they're so different. They did stuff like walk slowly like Gracie, Curl their paws like Gracie, smell around like Gracie and even roll around the same (though that reminded me more of Iris).

Just when you arrive at the walk-through part of the park there is this really hard and funny maze, that seems to go on forever and has loads of bridges and dead ends. There wasn't really a middle, it was more like you had to try and get onto the bridges. One could try to look for a way to another bridge standing on a bridge themselves, but I personally didn't find it did much help :P

There was also a goat petting farm where about 25 goats just lazed around being pat by people and always biting buttons, bags and shoe laces. They has these very tall logs and stumps for the goats to stand on. It always looked really odd when they got up onto them.

There were also loads of birds, small monkeys, kangaroos, tigers, more deer, rinos and much more at the walk though part, and there was a separate part that was made for the reptiles which was really cool, but for today I think I'm done with describing them :)

We may go back to the Animal Park soon, (we still didn't see the owls, monkeys, castle or gardens yet) and I'll describe the other animals then if we go. Goodnight for now, and I hope you like my new layout :D