Housley Family: Tanganyika with the Garrett's

I think that Andover is a really awesome place to raise a family. However, sometimes Wichita is a little lacking when it comes to exciting things to do. However, Tanganyika is definitely a really neat place that we are glad to have in Wichita. I had told Brenda about Tanganyika and so when they had some half price coupons, I bought them for both of our families. Tanganayika closes for a few months in the winter so we were running out of time to use our discounted tickets. We are so fortunate that we've had such great weather this fall and so even though it was late in October, we had a beautiful weekend to go to Tanganyika.

Left to right: Anna, Maddie, Reagan, Morgan & Amber. The rules for petting the kangaroos is that people can't go off the sidewalk. Most the time the kangaroos stay away from the sidewalks. However, the worker had helped this one to go over on the sidewalk. This kangaroo was raised by humans so it is more friendly towards humans. The girls loved petting the kangaroo.

Every time we go to Tanganyika, the girls ask to ride a camel. In the past, we've always gone on week days and so the camel ride hasn't been open. I told them that they could ride the camel if we are ever there when it was open. They definitely held me to that promise. They were checking on camel rides as soon as we got there!! This is a picture of Maddie riding the camel, but all 3 girls took a turn.

Morgan feeds a lorakeet.

Morgan got this lorakeet to land on Reagan's head.

These red birds were a little on the mean side and Maddie isn't oo pleased with them!

We had some friends from church who were also at Tanganyika. They told us not to buy bird food because they weren't eating. We didn't buy much at first, but then we started buying it. We found that wearing flowers in your hair worked like magic to attract the birds!! In this picture, the worker is showing Morgan what she looks like with the birds.

This was the record for us for most birds on a single person and as you can see 2 of them are eating the flower in Maddie's hair, one is eating Maddie's hair, and the remaining one is actually eating the food!

These birds were determined to get the nectar out of Morgan's flower.

I loved this shot of the bird on Maddie's face going after the flower.

Maddie's hair flower, after the birds were snacking on it.

Usually, the first place we go is the lemurs. Today it was the last and as always it was a definite favorite. In this picture the Lemur is on Amy's lap.