Vacation time!

Since we are too poor (new house, new car, you get the picture...) to have a proper vacation, we decided to do a "staycation" this year, meaning that we will stay home and spend Lou's vacation doing days trips to see the sights in the surrounding area. Monday, day 1 of our staycation, was spent at Fort Rickey, a large petting zoo in Rome, NY. It is such a cute place, with lots of animals to see, feed and pet - they even do live informational shows with random animals (porcupines, wolves, snakes, etc.) every half hour.
The first thing we did was feed the deer - the girls had a blast doing this!

After we finished feeding them, we were allowed to open the fence and go in and pet them - they were so cute (the animals and the kids)!

This was like a dream come true for Josephine - she loves animals! (then again, what kid doesn't?!)

Next were the tortoises (yes, tortoises, NOT turtles - I learned about the difference between the two from Zoobooks!) - not as fun to pet as the deer, but it was still cool for the girls to be able to get so close to the animals all throughout our visit.

Maria and Josephine loved to watch these guys moved around!

By the way, just a note, there were tons of animals in this place, but I don't show them all here - I only included the best pictures!