Saturday, August 13, 2011

Bear Country

Our last day of vacation we went to Bear Country or Bear World near Idaho Falls. By far this was the most expensive activity we did, and I'm very thankful my kids LOVED it!


If you've never been, you drive around in your car and look at animals. They have deer, elk, bison, moose and of course bears. I remember as a child my brother being so funny while we drove through, he had all of us laughing. He said the bears were really people in costumes and pretended to talk on a radio telling the bears what to do.


(This picture is out of place, but I can't drag them to save my life on the laptop.)


The kids loved the petting zoo part, The little fawn latched on to Grace's shirt and wouldn't let go. I think it's incredible how relaxed she is around animals, where Max might run or at least back away she is right there letting a baby deer lick her hand.


There were several baby bears and a trainer was working with this one, she got him to climb up on the pole and eventually stand up on his hind legs and wave. It was fun to watch - on a side note you could feed the bears for $20 a person- yeah we didn't do that.


They had a few (cheesy) kid rids, these cars went up and down and around in a circle - Grace loved it. She kept saying "Thundercats Ho!" and would giggle and giggle.



Does one of these kids seem out of place to anyone else?


This bear came right up to the car and brushed against Max's door - he wasn't too sure about it, and his eyes got huge, but it was cool.




This was a huge albino elk- They said it's one of 6000 in the world. (Which seemed like a lot to me, but what do I know.)





And the cutest little baby bears ever.

2 comments:

Anderson Family said...

So I am way behind at commiting. lol
Looks like a way fun trip. I hated that trip everytime we took it as kids. But now I want to go there more than disneyland. I know my kids would LOVE it!...I might like it a little more than I did then too. hahah

Mindy said...

I've always wanted to go to Bear World. It looks like so much fun.