Thursday, September 20, 2007

An African Safari - because why else would you go to Ontario

So I was adding some of my classmates to facebook when I noticed a message from Danielle. She was wondering if she should come out for the weekend. Neither of us had much homework yet, and the Safari closes mid-October.

She came out Friday night, and then on Saturday we decided to see how many things we could cram into one day. Quite a few actually. First we went down to St. Jacobs Market. It was huge, and I think I know where I'm getting most of my Christmas presents for you guys.

Then we headed to Cambridge for the Safari. How could we resist... I mean who goes "Gee, I really want to go on an African safari, lets go to Cambridge, Ontario." There are some regular zoo exhibits, but the best part by far was the Safari. You get to drive your car through the park and the animals are just roaming freely. They have huge signs that read "Dangerous Wild Animals - keep windows rolled up!" Not that anyone seemed to abide by that. Windows were rolled down, carrots were waved in the direction of the animals.

I loved the baboons. Now, I'm not usually a fan of baboons, but when they run around like hairy panhandlers they're pretty cute. They come and sit beside the windows hoping that someone will feed them. The generous cars would sometimes have as many as 5 baboons riding on the vehicle.
Oh, and then we rode an Elephant. They are quite comfy,
if rather prickly.

After the safari we headed out to Stratford to catch the Ideal Husband.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Hairy panhandlers! Gotta love 'em!

Now did Sarah remember to keep the trunk closed or did the safari suddenly lose one small monkey?

Sarah said...

LOL! They only had baboons, no small monkey to steal. Made me very sad...

Unknown said...

Oh, well. No small friends for molly to play with then. Guess she'll just have to keep terrorizing the house.