kangaroo farm

 

Last week, Mom treated me and the kids and my niece to an outing at the Outback Kangaroo Farm in Arlington.  We had a tour guide, one of the owners, Joey Strom, who started us off with a talk about Lemurs who were crazy leaping machines, jumping from the fence, to Joey, to the fence, to Joey.

Then we started a walking tour of the farm.  First we got to feed a llama and an alpaca that looked a little grumpy to me…

They did like giving ‘kisses’ if you held their alfalfa pellets in your pucker and mustered up your courage…

Susie wasn’t sure about them either.  In fact, the moment I snapped this next picture, Mom was making her pet him and Susie kept saying, “Owie.  Owie.”  That is her current word for anything she doesn’t like.

There were various kinds of birds running all over the place…

I do not understand how peacocks hide all those beautiful feathers in their tails!

And this big mama was so sweet chasing after her little chicks who were scattering all over the place…

And there were sweet, lazy little peacock chicks…

The baby miniature donkey was a favorite of all the kids, even with Susie…

There were grumpy emus and ostriches (you didn’t have to ask me twice no to touch them)…

Oreo was also grumpy, but super cute to look at…

Some big rodents; don’t ask me what they are called…

Susie decided the wallabies were her favorite…

She might have cried when he hopped away from us.  Then she might have consoled herself by trying to ride a turtle…

By this time, Mark was pretty much over the whole thing…

I loved that my niece had to stop and talk to all the animals…

By now it was finally time to see the kangaroos!!  The other owner, Ray had to wake up the big one from his nap so he could give the kids some hugs…

Can I just say, kangaroos are super weird looking…

 

And have quite a lot of character…

All their weirdness didn’t stop Miss Maddy from chatting them up…

I really wanted a shot of a peacock in all its glory, and thought I wouldn’t get it until we headed to the car and he decided to put on a little show for us…

 

Beautiful!  So unique and brilliant.

So all in all, the Kangaroo farm was a unique experience, and I would definitely recommend it if you need to shake up your routine!