I can barely believe it...(another birthday HO extravaganza)

One year has already flown by!
Bear has gone from this wee boy:

To this BIGGER wee boy:

Cak

e time!


Cake closeup(tasty orange-vanilla-sunflower cake with blueberry orange sauce that I invented ):

His Nan(my mum) and I took him to African Lion Safari.. A Wild game preserve nearby..While I have some ethical qualms with certain aspects of this, Bear quite loved it and I did have fun



impressed by the monkeys




This stork made me cry. So beautiful..and stuck all alone in a cage. See how lonely he looks?!


We rode an elephant. Her name is Jenny. Quite cool, but I felt very bad for the elephant to have to spend her day walking in tiny circles all day with kids on her back. Is that maybe better than running free on the savannah while watching your species crawl toward extinction?

Checking out the elephants

Petting Goats. This goat herd eventually adopted him as one of their own, and they all stood at the fence pulling at grass together

It was a lovely day