Grand Canyon (2)

After the parade Luke went down hill fast, high fever, headache the whole nine yards. Winnie and I walked to the closest store we could find that had kids medicine. We gave him some and hoped for the best as we went to lunch. We had just ordered when we realised he needed to be in bed. So Dewey drove him back to the hotel. While we waited for our food, packed it to go and walked back to the hotel. Surprisingly not to out of the norm for us (we are used to the unexpected, roll with the flow people)  so we came up with a new game plan for the afternoon.

Grandma offered to stay with Luke who by this time was fast asleep so that we could take Kolby exploring.

I had seen a brochure for a place called Bearizonia. Its a wildlife preserve rescue place for large animals that you can drive through.

Happy healthy animals that you get to see up close and personal, YES please.

So Dewey, Me Grandpa and Kolby loaded up in the car to see us some wildlife :)

It was AMAZING! I am aware that animal pics on a blog are a snooze fest however I think my love all things furry trumps that fact.

I mean can you even handle how cute this bear is?

After driving around past bears, wolves and buffalo you park and walk through the next area. Which includes....... BABY bears. Oh my heart I almost couldn't handle it. And I found out that they are bottle fed once every two hours. That means someone has the job of holding these babies and bottle feeding them every two hours. THAT'S A JOB. At that point I was prepared to stay and live there forever if they would let me do that "job". I might have had to be pushed away from this area..

Its kind of hard to tell but there are THREE bears in that skinny little tree. These bears were the next age up from the babies, the kindergartners. And just as stinking cute I might add.

The three men folk thought the whole thing was pretty cool. I loved every minute.

When we got back to the hotel room Luke was just waking up. More medicine a little food for dinner and then early to bed. The next morning he rallied and seemed to be feeling a lot better. Which was handy since this was our big day, our trip to the Grand Canyon via train.

More to follow.....