Animals (2)

We went to the Hollywood Safari Park which, despite it's name, is nowhere near California - it's in Germany. (There is a Hollywood connection, but I never fully grasped it.) It's a safari park, with animals, and then a bit of a theme park.

The whole place is a little like it's been trapped in a time warp, with almost nothing done to it for 20 years. There are some white tigers, with a sign that proudly announces (in English and German, which is how I know) that they hope to have produced offspring by 1989. The sign talks about only two white tigers, but we saw more, so maybe the offspring were produced (maybe we saw the offspring? I'm not sure how long tigers live).

The monkeys were in a large enclosure, with a train that went around it. The monkeys jumped on the train and the passengers could feed them popcorn through the bars of the cage.



Here's Alex on an electric boat. You put in 50 cents, and the motor started, and then when the motor stopped, you hoped the boat was somewhere near the edge, so you could retrieve your offspring. If it wasn't, you threw coins at the boat until your child manages to catch on and put it into the slot, and then the process repeats.
There was a petting zoo with goats, which you could feed popcorn to. The shop that sold the popcorn that was next to the goats was shut, so no one had popcorn. We had popcorn (from the monkeys) so the goats were very excited.

Here's a camel. And the back of Dan's head.

S had bought corduroy jackets for the boys with patches on the elbows (so they looked like teachers). She was determined to get a photo of them together in a car ride. They were determined not to. A compromise (of sorts) was reached by Dan sticking his foot in the air, in an attempt to spoil the photo.