Today I felt like Brian Fellows…

(that’s an old-school SNL joke, for those of you cool enough to get it)

Today we took a trip out to Fossil Rim – the wildlife preserve in Glen Rose, Texas. Jordin’s Nana and Aunt Na-Na and cousin Cyah were in town for the weekend, and the original plan was to hit the Dallas Zoo for the day… But then we decided that a hot day in the sun wouldn’t be much fun for Mama G with the little eggo in her toaster…

So instead, we took the drive down to Fossil Rim and spent a few hours driving around and checking out the amazing wildlife…

I’m not sure what we were expecting, but it was absolutely amazing… animals eating from our hands, sticking their heads in the car, utter craziness! Nana even got her arm nibbled on by a baby zebra!

So, without a bunch more jabbering, here are some of the amazing pics we took today:
(you can click them for larger versions)

the horns on these little dudes were super cool – banded and twisty

these guys had CRAZY long necks…

my beautiful wife checkin’ out the view…

these guys blocked the road…

and then came right up to the windows – really gentle and friendly

we got pretty swarmed at the same stop…
tons of deer coming up for food…

another one with some cool twisty horns…

a couple of cute deer hanging in the shade…

really cool antlers and markings on this one…

these guys totally had a system down…
instead of swarming the car like the other animals, these guys would post up on the side of the road and just wait for cars – at this point, there was one of these white guys about every 50 yards…

at the top of the hill looking back down at Fossil Rim

unfortunately, by the time we got up to the giraffes, they weren’t eating from the people in the cars anymore…

but we still got to see them up close

by far, probably the coolest animals of the day…

this guy was REALLY pretty and he said “hello” to us a few times

this emu was at the kids’s petting zoo, but we were too afraid to get close…

Jordin thought the goats were cute

these guys were SUPER gentle and really cool looking

and they had really cool shaggy hair on their chests

the zebras were pretty amazing

this one kept sticking his head in the window to get food

REALLY far into the window…

Ash finally got up the nerve to feed one by hand…

these guys had HUGE antlers – check out the sunroof to see how tall!

we were bummed that the rhinos weren’t closer to the road today

on the way out, Jordin rode a dinosaur

and then a family photo by the mama dino…

and here’s a video of a REALLY young zebra running around playfully