Mother-Daughter date to the Safari Park

One of Erin's "must-do" activities of the summer was a trip to the San Diego Zoo's Safari Park.  We waited for the last possible day before heading back to BYU to finally visit the animals.  What a fun place to spend a day!

We started off on the African tram ride where we saw one of Erin's favorite animals - the cheetah,

and a baby rhinoceros - so cute!

I couldn't resist taking a picture of this giraffe who just left it's tongue hanging out for a while.  Their tongues can be up to 20 inches long.

After the tram, we visited the lion exhibit.  Those animals are huge!

 We got to watch the gorillas get some sack lunch treats - it was neat to watch them "fight" over the bags.

We saw some beautiful birds in one of the aviaries

We were fascinated with the bat exhibit.  They are fun yet creepy animals.

Erin couldn't resist the opportunity to feed the lorikeets.  

Surprise!  This one hung out on Erin's head for a while.  Luckily we escaped without any "droppings"!

Even the lorikeet posed for the picture :)

It was a great last hurrah for Erin before getting back into the swing of things at BYU.