We went over to Kristen’s house for doughnuts and coffee in the morning before Andy started his workday. The doughnuts were from Five Daughters Bakery and were delicious. Annabelle picked out the maple bacon one and licked off all the frosting and gave Andy the rest to eat. Some of the doughnut had cake-like filling so it was like eating a cake doughnut.
In the afternoon, we went to Noah’s Ark Sanctuary, which was about an hour’s drive south. The first animals we saw were ponies, goats, llama or alpaca, and pigs. Annabelle loved petting them and tried to feed them the hay that fell over on our side of the fence. Most of the animals there were surrendered from private or struggling zoos, retired from medical research, etc. but there was a lion, tiger, and bear trio that was found during a drug raid. They were grown together as cubs so they decided to keep them in the same exhibit. I couldn’t help but compare the experience at the sanctuary with Tiger King, but I like to think this place was legit and even had animals turned over from the Department of Natural Resources.
Some other animals we saw were capuchin monkeys, brown lemurs, wolf hybrid, silver foxes, amazon birds, more tigers, etc. We actually didn’t see a lot of the larger animals, which I think was a good sign that their exhibits are large enough to roam off-exhibit. We said “hello” to the Amazon birds and they responded back with their own hellos. Of course, when Kristen tried to get it on camera, they didn’t do it the same.
Later that evening, we went back over to Kristen’s to hang out by the fire. Annabelle rode her balance bike up and down the sidewalk on her street like 10-15 times. I picked up Andy after work to bring him over, and Drew cooked (spicy) green curry for us.