Fossil Ridge Wildlife Center

Yesterday the boys and I picked up my sister Julie and headed out to Fossil Ridge Wildlife Center in Glen Rose, TX.  It's a drive through wildlife preserve.  They give you one bag of food and you have to use it wisely, or you will run out.  Ha ha.  We headed in, and soon had an ostrich head in our car.  We proceeded on and found Blackbuck, Addax, Axis Deer, Gemstock, Thompson's Gazelle.  I think it reminded Julie and I strongly of the Wild Animal Park in San Diego, and seeing all those animals on the plain when you ride the Monorail.  We climbed a ridge and when we came down the other side, we found the valley with the giraffes and zebras. We were so excited to feed the giraffes, but none would come to the car.  Then after we drove past we saw one walk over to the next car.  We were bummed.  However we proceeded on. Soon we were climbing another ridge and found Aoudads, which are kind of like African big horned sheep.  The boys were loving feeding all the animals and thought it was hilarious when they would stick their heads in the car.  We drove past the cheetahs, which were caged, as were the rhinos.  We found a herd of wildebeest, but they didn't come up to the car.  The drive probably took a couple hours.  We came to the exit gate, and there was a little side road that took you back to the start of the tour.  I looked at my sister, and she looked at me, and we said, let's go again!  So, off we went for a second tour, and this time we saw Emus and Bongos, which we hadn't seen the first time around.  When we got back to the giraffes, we were excited to see one was up by the cars taking food from everybody, then all of sudden two cars in front of us, it stopped.  Well, the two cars drove on, and there we were, and I held out some food anyway, and it came over and ate it!  We were so excited.  Everyone was shoving their hands out my window. We finally drove on and ended up in a pack of zebras.  I was watching one outside the passenger window when I turned and found a zebra sticking it's head in my window!  It caught me off guard.  Ha ha.  Then it had a good time looking in my mirror.  We finished the tour for a second time with our final visitor being an ostrich, just like our very first visitor.  This time I did take the exit.  We drove back to my sister's and hit a horrible storm.  The rain was so bad you could hardly see and lightening was striking everywhere.  I'm so glad that didn't hit while we were at the park.  We all got home safely and we all had a great time.  What an awesome place.