Leesburg Animal Park

On Labor Day, we headed down south to the Leesburg Animal Park with Tasha, Jeff and Coldon. It was a perfect cool and overcast day and the animals were VERY friendly. Abby was a little nervous about feeding them at first, but she eventually warmed up to the idea!

She never warmed up enough to feel comfortable feeding this big guy. (Can't say as I blame her on this one.) This "cow" was not only a little funny looking (doesn't she look like she has pigtails?) but she was continually making loud honking noises, scaring both Coldon and Landon a few times!!

Landon was quite fascinated with all of the animals but didn't dare venture too close. His favorites seemed to be the birds (that's what he is looking at here) and the numberless amount of chickens running around everywhere. He tried to catch a few, but alas, he was unsuccessful in the attempts.

We took a little tractor ride over to the pond to feed the ducks and fish. As soon as we pulled up, the fish and fowl went CRAZY, literally jumping out of the water to get some food. All the kids were fascinated by this (heck, the adults were pretty interested in it all too!!)

Abby had a fun little adventure on a pony...

But the highlight of the day was perhaps this camel. By this point Abby had spilt the remainder of our animal food so all we had to offer the camel was this empty cup.


I guess the camel didn't believe it could possible be empty and surprised Jason by taking a closer look for himself.
(I LOVE the expression on Jason's face in this picture. Landon's looking a little leary about the whole situation.)

All-in-all a fabulous place to visit with little kids. They were thoroughly entertained as were we. I guess Labor Day to most people signifies the end of summer. It's been a great one, but I'm not too sad though because I LOOOOOVE fall! Bring on the cooler weather, the beautiful changing leaves, the vibrant colors, the pumpkin-picking and of course Halloween and Thanksgiving. I am ready!!!