"Mommy, Emus Are Hungry!"

Mom and I took the boys to the Lazy 5 Ranch here in NC. Reminded me of Bear Country in Rapid City, except totally different animals AND you are allowed to feed these animals through your car windows. You can already imagine the excitement (chaos) of this adventure. The various animals, deer, goats, pigs, buffalo, llamas, ostriches, giraffes, zebras, camels just to name a few, were great and very curious and anxious to squeeze their heads into the feeding buckets. All was well, until we decided to feed the EMUS!!! Those crazy Emus were so aggressive and wouldn't take "No" for an answer. I can't fully describe the harsh, determined force of their pecking, but it was pretty funny and nerve-racking all at the same time. My mom was terrified and I had fun controlling the automatic windows and letting the Emus sneak up on her side of the car! Ha-Ha! She did not think that was very humorous. Needless to say, her loud, terrifying screams scared Zane and Cruz so badly they were crying for the next 10 minutes! Wish I would've had the video camera on this trip!

The sign right before you go in..Enter at your Own Risk!

Mom ready to feed some animals!

Emu ATTACK!! :)

Eye-balling the food bucket!

Zane has a nice, safe view!

The poor animals hardly had room to get their snack!





Some of my favorite shots..yes the tortoises were mating! Next time you ask your child, "What does the cow say?" Be sure to also ask what does a turtle sound like...it sounds like a goose!