Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Olympic Game Farm

Yesterday, Memorial Day, we decided to take advantage of the day off work and go out to Olympic Game park in Sequim. Dustin, Jesse, Will and I make the trek out there. It took us about 3.5 hours and 2 Ferry rides to get there.

It was the most insane experience. You drive through the park and the animals come right up to your car (or kinda into your car) and you feed them bread. I don't know if that it's all that healthy for them to get that much bread, but that was the only food allowed.
The animals had NO fear of us. Although it took us a bit to not have fear of them. :)

The bears seemed really friendly. But I was still glad they were on the other side of an electric fence. They would wave to us and were really good at catching the bread out of the air. We'd throw it like a frisbee and they'd catch it with their mouth.
Will thought it was all pretty cool.
The Buffalo were the most intimidating. Maybe because just their snout took up the whole window. And they had the most awful breath ever!



This shows you how huge the buffalo were. They were nice though. It's not like they were going to push over any of the cars. Apparently they just really like bread. ha ha.
There was also a petting farm there.
Will loved this chicken. I've never seen a bird so ok with people touching it. It didn't even twitch when we'd touch it. Will was practically hugging it at one point.
We had an awesome time at the game park. Unfortunately though the ride home was not so awesome. We went back to get on the first of 2 ferries and there was a 2 hour wait, and they told us there was already a 5 hour wait for the next ferry we'd need. So we decided it'd be faster to drive all the way around. UGH! Will watched a movie (luckily I had brought a little DVD player for him.) And Jesse and I played the alphabet game. We also stopped at A&W for root beer floats. It was a long day, but the park was awesome!

5 comments:

amyraye said...

you are brave for posing with that animal thing in the picture. when we went, i almost severed a couple buffalo tongues because i was so quick to roll the window back up. their breath is super nasty. really cute pictures.

LaDawn said...

wow that's pretty cool. I'm sure Will loved it!

Johnny & Alli said...

Isn't this place awesome? We went about a month ago or so! We loved it! The animals are so nasty...but awesome!

Tammy said...

What a fun day. I hope Will will be able to remember it.

Ann said...

That looks so fun! You're such a cool mom! I think I can smell the animal through the pictures. Bleh. Someone should feed them mints! :)