we headed out just north of Yucaipa. It was a really nice drive up there, and it was nice to spend time with Bre and Gia. On the winding roads there was still sparse snow and everything was so green. I was excited when we got there, I wasn't sure if anything would be open cause of the holiday but everything was open for bussines. We walked though a couple of shops, and was very happy when Bre didn't have any objections to leaving them. They were sort of a cross between souvineer and antique shops....in other words they were BORING!!! We walked up the hill a ways and saw that there was a petting zoo. I bought Gia a cup of dried corn to feed to the animals and we set off along the trail. It was nice, there were all different kinds of animals and birds in cages and a ways up the trail there was the little petting zoo, and thats where the wierdness began.
At the entrance to the gate was a pig that would not get out of the way, so we had to go in the exit. Then once we bypassed the pig/gate keeper we went in and this cute little goat came running up to us. Everything was fine untill the baby goat knocked the corn out of Gia's hands and then put its hooves up on Gia's shoulders and was staring her right in the face. Gia looked terrified, so I kicked the goat, then the goat started to RAM the other animals that were coming around to eat the dried corn. It was a good time for us to move along to some other animals. We went to pet a llama but the little goat from hell would not leave us alone so we had to get out of there. We moved to the outside of the fence and were about to pet the llama when AAAAA CHEW!!!! The llama sneezed on me and left nasty green somethings on my hand. GROSS!!! And I cant begin to describe the smell.
After our ordeal we thought it might be nice for Gia to ride a cute little pony, what could go wrong right? So there Gia was looking so adorable going around and around on the back of the pony, I turned around to say something to Bre when I saw this look on her face...aparently the pony was done working for food, or needed a day off. It started to buck and jump and poor little Gia was again scared. We took her off the pony and decided to go eat. The food wasn't bad, but it was way over priced, but I think that is usually the case in places like that.
We decided to check out the reptile area...what other wierd stuff could happen today? It didn't take long for us to come across a snake eating a rat that looked exactly like Sammy. Sammy is a rat that belongs to Gia. She named him sammy cause she said he was cute, and now here was sammy's look a like being eatten for lunch, and of course we watched the entire feast. Gia didn't seem to mind.
After seeing the last part of the rat's tail go down the hatch, we left and crossed the street so Gia could play in the snow. There wasn't much but it was fun seeing her run around and have so much fun. It wasn't long before Gia tossed a snow ball, then I launched one back...opps Bre got hit in the cross fire, and I got hit by way too many snow balls. All in all the day was great and as long as Gia isn't too traumatized I would definatley go back for another visit.
