Tuesday while Judy submitted our paperwork at the U.S. Consulate, the Harbours and us took taxicabs to a local Safari Park. I have to say this was probably the nicest zoo facility that I have ever seen, including Denver, Portland or even San Diego. The facility was beautiful, it was clean including the restrooms, and the prices were reasonable. They also had numerous circus type shows spread throughout the day. These included an Elephant Show with 4 elephants, a Bear Show with two trained bears, and a White Tiger Show that had at one point 15 white tigers in the cage at once! The bear show was very entertaining, I had never seen one of these before. I believe they were very popular in the U.S. around the turn of the century. This show had to trained bears that walked on their hind legs and looked very human. One of the bears would pass a basketball to the handler, take a pass back and go in for a jump shot! His pct. wasn't very high so the handler had him practising again after the show. :-) We spent most of the day there at the Safari Park and still did not see it all. We were all pretty beat when we got back.
Oh man, I almost forgot about the best part. They had photo ops with a white tiger cub. We got to have our picture taken with me holding a cub!
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