Review: Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch

Last week, we went on a wonderful family vacation to San Antonio!  It was so much fun!!!  On our first day we stopped on the northside of S.A. to visit the Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch.  IT WAS GREAT!

We got there about 1 hour before the entrance gate closing time and paid as we drove up.  Note that sometimes discount coupons can be found on their website.  The ones we found were $2 off per person.  Admission also gets you one bag of feed per car. 

You can opt to purchase more feed bags(we got two more) and also the small booklet with information about the park and the different animals in the different parts of the drivethrough and other enclosures.  We got the booklet mainly for our 4 year old who loves animals and enjoys learning about them.  He used it almost the entire time and would point to the pictures when we saw the animals along the drivethrough routes.  Eventually, I was relagated to be the official "animal finder" and handed the catalogue so my kids could do more important things like throw feed out the window and oooh and ahhh over the unique creatures. 

The catalogue also had information on the several endangered animals in breeding programs at the ranch such as the white rino and the Bactrian camels.  WOW!  When I first found out the price of admission it seemed a little high to me, but when I found out all the conservation things they are doing at this wildlife ranch I was more than happy to pay to contribute to their efforts!

Let's see, other things to see and do at the ranch include visiting the cafe, the gift shop, the walkabout, and the "petting barn".  We LOVED the petting barn which was a giant metal barn with pygmy goats.  My kids(who are toddlers and one preK) thought these were great because the goats weren't too big to overwhelm them.  The walkabout included monkeys, macaws, chickens, and other animals but my favorite were the lemurs on their own little island.  The coolest thing though was seeing the BABIES (yes teensy tiny little lemurs)!!!  Oh, my, how adorable!

So would I recommend the Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch?  Oh, yes!!!  It is great!!!!!

Things Toddlers Say

Tonight during prayer time, my little girl said, "Thank you for my toys and wall and food and pillows and bed and God and Daddy and brothers and Mommy and ..."

Late Term Abortions

I don't really understand these.  Although I don't agree, I can see where someone could convince themselves that before so many weeks in pregnancy that a baby could be called something other than a baby.  But when a baby is especially past the 23rd week...  how can they think  that what they are chosing is anything other than murder?  How can the doctor's that have recited the hippocratic oath still preform this surgical procedure to end a life?  I just don't get it.

Tickled Tuesdays!

Oh, no!  This is totally me!  Except my car now doesn't stall since we got the "new to me" vehicle! 

 

MALE VS. FEMALE AT THE ATM MACHINE

A new sign in the Bank Lobby reads:

’Please note that this Bank is installing new Drive-through ATM machines enabling customers to withdraw cash without leaving their vehicles.

Customers using this new facility are requested to use the procedures outlined below when accessing their accounts.

After months of careful research, "MALE & FEMALE" procedures have been developed. Please follow the appropriate steps for your gender.'

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MALE PROCEDURE:

1. Drive up to the cash machine.

2. Put down your car window.

3. Insert card into machine and enter PIN.

4. Enter amount of cash required and withdraw.

5. Retrieve card, cash and receipt.

6. Put window up.

7. Drive off.

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FEMALE PROCEDURE:

(What is really funny is that most of this part is the truth!!!!)

1. Drive up to cash machine.

2. Reverse and back up the required amount to align car window with the machine.

3. Set parking brake, put the window down.

4. Find handbag, remove all contents on to passenger seat to locate card.

5. Tell person on cell phone you will call them back and hang up.

6. Attempt to insert card into machine.

7. Open car door to allow easier access to machine due to its excessive distance from the car.

8. Insert card.

9. Re-insert card the right way.

10. Dig through handbag to find diary with your PIN written on the inside back page.

11. Enter PIN.

12. Press cancel and re-enter correct PIN.

13. Enter amount of cash required.

14. Check makeup in rear view mirror.

15. Retrieve cash and receipt.

16. Empty handbag again to locate wallet and place cash inside.

17. Write debit amount in check register and place receipt in back of check book.

18. Re-check makeup.

19. Drive forward 2 feet.

20. Reverse back to cash machine.

21. Retrieve card.

22. Re-empty hand bag, locate card holder, and place card into the slot provided!

23. Give dirty look to irate male driver waiting behind you.

24. Restart stalled engine and pull off.

25. Re-dial person on cell phone.

26. Drive for 2 to 3 miles.

27. Release Parking Brake.

Bed Bug Registry

Anyone planning a vaca soon??  Well, you might just want to check to make sure your hotel isn't on the BedBugRegistry website!

Smokin' Crack

Ok, ok. The show Too Cute is one of my favorite shows EVER. You know the show on Animal Planet which follows baby animals through the first few weeks of their lives until the breeder finds them their new people to take the home. These people are also known as their owners but I have a feeling it might be they own the people due to the extreme cuteness of these puppies, kittens, piggies, and hedgehogs. So tonight, I'm surfing the internet looking at adorable teacup persian kitten pictures thinking maybe someday we will own a furry pet again until I exclaimed, "They're smokin' crack!" at the price... $2000 to $3000. Um, yea. I'm pretty sure only a drug dealer and/or politician could afford these.

Things Toddlers Say

This morning when we all got up and the kids were looking out the back windows at the flowers, my little girl exclaimed, "Look Mommy! The flowers are ballooning!!!" (aka blooming)