Our friend Karen is about to have a birthday. And, Karen being Karen, she wanted to get a bunch of friends together and spend time with them. Of course, being Karen, that means quite the adventure! So, using all the birthday favors she had, Karen got all her friends together at...Gatorland!
As you can see, Karen even made a new friend!
Of course, Elizabeth likes neither gators or snakes...which are in abundance at Gatorland, but, being a trooper, she decided that it was worth putting up with all the crazy reptiles if she could hang out with her friends. And, not to be outdone, Elizabeth even mustered the courage to pet a gator herself!
As you can tell from the name (and the pictures) Gatorland had quite a few gators around. But they've also got quite a few other critters, too. Snakes (even poisonous ones, but you can't pet those), turtles, birds, bullfrogs, deer, goats, iguanas, and both gopher and Galapagos tortoises. And we got to see them all!
On of the more fascinating things, to me, was walking along the boardwalk and seeing all the gators just swimming around and then, suddenly, there's a big ol' crocodile sunning itself in the middle of them. Everyone was just minding their own business, doing their own thing. It was pretty cool!
The other great thing about the day was that we got to spend it with some friends we haven't gotten to hang out with much in awhile. Hopefully this Gatorland adventure will change that, but even if it doesn't, it was so much fun being able to spend time with Karen, Chad, Susan, Shae, Debbie, and Becky, and then even more friends later at Habeneros for dinner!
And, as the day went by, Elizabeth was able to make a new friend from the animal kingdom (although it wasn't a gator!)
Elizabeth found an aviary nestled in with all those reptilian creatures and got to play with a Lorikeet. These were some of the more beautiful birds I've ever seen, and, if it weren't for the cat, I think Elizabeth just might be wanting a new pet!
So that's what we've done so far on our Labor Day weekend. And tomorrow the big plans are to do nothing, nothing at all.
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