But I Smile Anyway…

Yesterday, we had a great day!  The visit to Howletts went swimmingly!

We had great weather, no rain, even though Lil Princess still managed to be smothered in mud waist down(??!).

The animals were fantastic!

We saw elephants, rhinos, many different monkeys and primates, like gibbons, and macaus, baboons, tigers, leopards, wild dogs, fishing cats, pallas cats, lemurs, river water hogs, bongos ~(did you even know there was an animal called a bongo?!)

This guy was so cute, he’d hit a box hung high with his trunk and it would shower him with carrot bits to eat!

Did you know lemurs got their name from the Latin word for ghost? In days of old, they would hide in the forest canopies and the humans would not know where the noise came from! They thought they were ghosts!

And not forgetting the

Then came my favorite! We were greeted by this sign…

The Gorillas!

A great day had by all!
Who knew such an amazing place was just round the corner from us?!

(Apologies for poor quality pics… I’m not the best photographer and these were taken on my phone!)