So now I am back to describe my experience. Can I be honest here? This was not a very good experience. This has got to be hand down one of my worst experiences. It all started on the drive. Yes the drive was about 30 -45 minutes from where we were staying at. But that’s fine; to me the trip was worth it. Well when we get there, they let us know that we will be getting a free bag of food and asked if we wanted to purchase another. So we said yes because we rather have more than less. I was also thinking we were going to see many animals, so we needed to have enough. We also purchased the Wild Life animal book to learn more about the animals on this ranch as well as see what’s available in variety of animals. Once we mentioned how many of us it was in the car, our total came out to $72.50. I was like WHAT WHAT? Who so expensive? Well forgetful me forgot to look at the prices online, which states entry is $17.50 for adults and $9.00 for children ages 3-11. I freeked. I didn’t mean to but it was a huge surprise on how pricey this visit was going to be. The coupon I had from the brochure was definitely going to have to be used. It didn’t make much of a different but every little counts. When the employee saw the look on my face, he asked if I was a military member, and some other program. I told him no but did mention to him that my husband and I were educators. So he said with that, I was able to get a discount. So from $72.50, it went down to $59.50. Still pricey I say but a big difference from what it was at first.
We entered the ranch and first came upon the giraffes. They were really neat. I just didn’t like how they were very far away. So there was really no fun in that. After the giraffes, we came across the Barasingha and we were excited but just because we don’t get to see animals like this up close. That is when we started throwing the pebbles of food and they loved it. Then after seeing that animal we saw the Kudu, Springbok, Gemsbok, Waterbuck, Aoudad, Fallow, Formosan Sika, Elk, Axis, Blesbok, Nilgai, Bluebull, Red, Lechwe, a few others. So to my big disappointment, all these animals I just name all look like a deer some way or another. There is not big different between them. So to my family and myself, there was no fun in that. It’s just like seeing the same thing over and over except; they had different color of coats or different size antlers. We were so upset and though please don’t let the whole trip consist of deer looking animals and that’s what cost us an arm and a leg to come in. They we came into contact with an American Bison. That one was pretty neat but really boring at the same time. He just walked and walked and walked. Nothing thrilling about it I guess. We continued to feed whatever deer looking animal we came upon.
Then we entered another part to the ranch where it stated we would see Ostrich’s. So I was really excited about that one because Ostrich’s are the largest birds in the world and I heard they are also somewhat dangerous. Did you know an Ostrich could run as fast as 45 M.P.H.? Wow is that fast for being a bird. It’s kinda scary at the same time. Now get this! We were approached by an ostrich that was walking in front of the car and walked past my husband’s window. He fed him by throwing the pebbles of food to the ground because there was no way he was going to feed him with his hand. So we were just looking at the bird go towards the back of our car thinking he was going to the car behind us. Well to my surprise, I had my window down and was looking out when I saw the Ostrich look me right in the eye. OMG!!!!!! I got sooooooo scared like there was no tomorrow. I panicked and told my husband, roll up the windows, roll up the windows!! NOW!!!!!! That Ostrich could have honestly bitten me and picked at me for a while before the car window was fully closed. I thought that window was never going to close. As soon as it did, I told me my husband, never again and we took off from that area. Whew close call!
Then we continued driving while my heart was literally beating out of its chest. We saw a camel but from a long distance so that wasn’t too exciting. In our animal ranch guidebook, it shows that we will see some kangaroos and zebras. Well guess what? Thank never happened :(. Not once did I see any of those animals and we searched everywhere. So that was a major disappointment. We did pass by a llama but that wasn’t too exciting in that it just stood there and was eating. I brought up the Llama Llama books to my little boy and told him that is Llama Llama and he’s not by his mama. He got all excited after seeing a character to a book that he has read plenty of times before.
So after seeing the Llama, we were going to go around the ranch again because we were told that we could go as many times as we want. I just really wanted to go again so I can look around for the animals that I did not get to see. But my husband wasn’t feeling well so we had to leave. Overall it is not what I expected. I really expected for they’re to be more types of various animals. I understand that not all animals can be at a ranch like this because they are a danger to us humans. But there had to be more animals that can get added to the ranch. So would I return? Not at all likely due to the variety of animals seen. 
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