Baby Animal Days

Every year there is an event in Logan called Baby Animal Days, and every year, despite my desire, I have failed to actually go. This year I promised myself and (harder to get out of) my kids that we would go. One hitch in the plan was that Joe had to work both the days that the Day's were taking place. I don't really consider myself someone who likes to try new things, to be honest new things scare me. I was 20 when I finally went through a drive through by myself for fear that I would say the wrong things. When I was young, my mom used to say we could order pizza for dinner...if I would be the one to call (we had many pizza-less dinners as a result). As I have gotten older, and maybe a little more mature I have learned to face some of my fears, and I was proud of myself when, despite the 45 minute drive, despite having no idea of the exact location, or where to go once I got there, I did follow through and we had a great time.

Basically every year the American Heritage Center, which is open year round, has this annual event to show off some of it's new arrivals. They have an open policy where you are able to see, pet, and/or hold the animals depending on their size and your comfort level. During the weekend they also feature a candy cannon, gun fights, pony and train rides, and much more. This year they also were able to have baby bears. This was the part I was most excited about, unfortunately so were the hordes of other people there, are the wait to see the bears was about 2 hours long and my kids were not interested enough to wait. We did surive the 20 minute wait to get onto the grounds though...and saw and did lots of fun things. We took a horse pulled wagon ride, and the kids favorite part was, as we were waiting for our ride to start, when a wagon pulled up behind us and these huge horses stuck their heads over to say hello to my kids. I was worried that my kids would be afraid of the animals and that this might be a waste of time, but as they reached their hands up for their first close animal encounter and squealed with laughter, I knew the trip and the day would totally be worth it.

In addition to the horses, we saw goats and sheep, cows and ponies, donkeys and kittens, piglets and bunnies and lots and lots and lots of other people
We waited a good half hour for a two circle loop, but they kids loved the pony ride most of all.

This was a great way to end our spring break and I look forward to going again next year, it's not new anymore, so it can't scare me!