Global Wildlife Trip

Yesterday we headed out for Galatas Family Fun Day, or GFF for short:) But really it was Lavigne family day, as it was Susan's idea, and a big chunk of the Lavigne was in attendance. Global Wildlife is a safari tour company that is about an hour outside of Baton Rouge. We rode in covered wagons and fed the animals. We have been wanting to go for a long time, so when Susan suggested this Sunday, we were all excited. Tucker said "enimals" the whole way there, which sounded a lot like "enema," haha, but of course we knew what he meant! We went around 9am so that we could get seats on the 10am ride. Well, it was already sold out, so we had to wait for the 11am ride, which was really more like 1130am. So we had about 2 hours to kill, and Tucker was not happy about waiting! He did well for a while, the kids ran around outside and up and down the stairs on the observation decks. But when the 10am tour lined up, and he didn't get to ride on the big tractor, he was MAD! There was a lot of "you're a big boy, you can wait" and "look how nicely Molli and your friends are waiting, you can wait like them." Finally we saw Molli eating Cheetos....Chris and I wondered why we hadn't thought of that.....so Molli shared, then we got Tucker his own bag, and Tucker sat quietly and nicely licking all of his Cheetos. When it was time to board the wagons, we got first pick since we had such a big group. Tucker chose the very back of the last wagon. And of course he chose to sit by Daddy! Here is a picture of our group.

Here are Susan and Molli:)

Addi, Aliyah, and Molli

Gina and Jene'e:)

We had 3 big feed buckets to feed the animals, Tucker loved playing with it.

Meagan and Aliyah:)

Tucker and Chris waiting for some animals to feed.

Chris feeding the animals...Tucker kept putting his hand in the animals' mouths, so he was banned!

Hanging out with Black Bear....yes, of course Black Bear wanted to see some "enimals" too.

Looking at the animals

Sitting by Paw Paw Ed

The animals know that the wagons are full of food, so they followed us, it was hilarious.

And with about 1/3 of the tour done, Tucker fell aslep!

The llama with 6 girlfriends....we didn't really understand why the ladies love him, haha! Aliyah fed him.

And Tucker still slept.

The long horned cattle put their heads and horns right in the wagon, looking for food.

Aliyah wasn't one bit scared, but Nana sure was!

Almost at the end, and Tucker woke up.

It was a nice day, though already getting too hot to be outside. This summer is going to be rough.

Tucker had a good time, and he was happy to be home with his Daddy on Sunday afternoon.