Jungle Mania

Thanks to some friends from church, we got free tickets to what they called "an overpriced South Florida attraction", Jungle Island. It's basically like a small zoo. The animals looked sad, though. 

This was a sedentary tiger. Note the claw marks on the glass.

Swinging monkeys

Lazy gators

Squawking birds

And Nathan's fave, the lions. Here he is sweetly introducing Mikey to the cat in the distance.

Wow, that's mighty close.

Oh, you want to offer our child to the lioness as an after-school snack?

The male didn't seem to mind.

While my crazy hubby was baiting the lions with our baby, it started raining, then raining harder, then raining cats and dogs, then raining lions and tigers and bears. Oh my! We got absolutely soaked. All three of us.

I asked Mikey if he liked pina coladas and getting caught in the rain.

He thought I was pretty funny.

I probably asked him the same question 20 times, and he laughed each time.

Gotta love that!

Those smiles were what got me through the following two hours of him screaming in the car on the way home. Oy.