That time we got to play with lions

Every Saturday our team does “Cultural Excursions.” Up until now these excursions have varied from Museums on South Africa’s history to going bowling at the mall. But the moment we have all been waiting for finally arrived. Saturday we went to the Rhino and Lion animal reserve. Which meant BABY LIONS!!

 We pulled into the park just in time for the big cats to be fed. When I say big cats I mean wild dogs (so not cats but whatever), Cheetahs and LIONS. We were able to drive into their pens and pull into a circle where they drop off food for the animals.

After watching all the animals eat, which was cool and kinda scary, we then drove through the park so that we could get to the petting zoo area. Once at this area the real fun began! We were able to get in the pens with three different types of animals. The first I went in the Eddy’s pen. Eddy being a full grown Cheetah.

               
 After that came the Servals. They look like normal kittens when they are small but when they are full grown the are the size of a medium dog and are not quite as cuddly.

We saved the best for last. We finally got to play with the baby lions! There were three of them and they were the size of dogs. It was so cool to get to be in the pen with these animals and not just get to look at them but to literally hold them. One of the girl cubs really liked my shirt. Well she liked the taste of it haha. She walked over and started biting it and ended up lying in my lap for a long time! To go from seeing full-grown lions eat lunch to holding a 6-month-old cub was surreal.

Well, yeah that was our day in a nutshell. Enjoy the rest of the blog! 

Cheers!