Bear World 2013

Allen and I decided that it has been a long while since we've been to Bear World. Everytime we drive past, Braden begs us to go and see the "Yogi Bears". So we caved. This particular weekend Bear World was charging half price plus they give you a community card, so each time we decide to go back this summer, it will always be half price. Score! So on a warm and sunny afternoon we decide to go.

 

The bears were all in their caves hiding the first time we drove through. Total bummer so we decided to go to the gift shop and go on the amusement rides. They are just little rides but Braden was especially excited.

 

 You can imagine how excited Tyler was to be in this picture with his head on the bears body!

 For as wild Braden can sometimes be, the one thing he would never do is ride the little Merry go rounds without a total meltdown. I didn't think he'd enjoy these rides, but he loved them. The faster they went and the crazier the ride got, the better!

 Even Kylie and McKenna were enjoying these ones!

After we rode all the rides and saw the little bear cubs, we decided to drive through the park again. This time, as luck would have it, we were a few cars back from the feeding truck. All the bears came out for that! Lots and lots of bears!

 I don't know if you can tell in this picture, but I decided buffalo are actually really big and very ugly animals.

One of the advantages of driving behind the feeding truck is the bears are much more active. We saw a lot of this. Especially with this bear. It kept standing on people's cars and even while they continued to drive, the bear would walk along with the car. It was kind of fun to watch since they weren't on our car. There was an employee there with his truck that would drive over and get all of the bears off of people's cars, but this one was definitely persistent!

After this time through the park, we really felt like we got our money's worth - and who knows...maybe we will see the Yogi Bears again this season!