Fri 03/07/09 02:23

I went to the National Wildlife Safari today and wandered around a bit. I started at a an animal orphanage which I think was the best idea. When I went through the gate, there a guy comes up to me and tells me that he’s my guide. I think, okay, so everyone gets a guide here. I think he was just being sly, but with his help, I was allowed into the cage with the cheetahs to get some shots of me petting them. It was funny too the way he approached me about it, he’s like, “pssst… you wanna pet a cheetah?” I’m kind of thinking okay, so what’s the catch?  The guide acted like it wasn’t really permissible but if I wanted to he’d let me. The same thing happened with some baby cheetahs that had just been brought to the orphanage a couple of days earlier. The let me hold them and get some pics. So cool… I mean really it was something that I don’t think I would have gotten the chance in my normal travels.

As I walked around the area there was one pen/cage with about 5 monkeys just hanging out doing “monkey stuff” and a baby monkey saw me and my guide an came out of the pen through a bent portion of the wire. I’ve got to say that that was another really cool moment. The monkey just seemed so curious about everything, about me, my backpack, my clothing, and almost everything else.