Monday, April 6, 2009

Olympic Game Farm

Dan and I drove the kids north to Sequim to the Olympic Game Farm. We'd heard good things about it, and it lived up to the hype. We had a BLAST! It takes about an hour to drive around within the farm (you drive SLOW), and you can feed bread to a large variety of animals. We had the most fun feeding the llamas and buffalos. I haven't laughed that hard in a LONG time. If any of you live within a decent driving distance (or have something similar near you in your area), I would HIGHLY suggest going!

Here's a baby elk we got to feed:
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a buffalo (look at that tongue!!!); and this was one of the smaller buffalo we saw
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If you roll down your window far enough, they'll stick their heads right inside to get food (it's discouraged to stick your window down that far, but Dan did it real fast to fold the side mirror in because the buffalo was bumping against it the opposite way and we didn't want it getting ripped off)
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The buffalo are HUGE, so I'm not sure I'd feel very safe going through in a car, but plenty of people did. This was a van in front of us along the drive
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The bears are behind electric fences, but you still get REALLY close. They will often wave at the cars to encourage people to throw food to them!
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It was just windy enough that no matter how hard we threw the bread, the wind would blow it off course and keep most of it from getting to this bear, so we felt bad! We tried to get some good pictures of how LONG those claws are, but I still have some editing to do (resizing and deleting blurry pictures, etc). I just wanted to make sure and get a few up on the sooner side of things!!

6 comments:

Kaci said...

THAT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOO COOL!! Thanks for the pics Leah! Insane!!

Cindy Lou Who said...

It does look very similar to the one we went through in Oregon. Although our's just had boring animals - yours seems pretty cool! So glad it was worth your trip!

Betsy Hart said...

That does look really cool!!!

Crystal said...

I've been there twice, took Lilly for the first time a few months ago. I love it there...glad your kids got to experience it. I also highly recommend it!

Kristina said...

Fun, fun, fun! Except for being up close and personal with giant, snotty noses and abnormally long tongues...ick, ick, ick. The bear's claws are crazy long! It's weird to think that something so cute could be so dangerous.

Ashley said...

Wow, you got some seriously amazing pictures there! I want to go there now too!!!