Bear World

My Mom and John took our family to 

Bear World in Idaho close to their house

when we came to visit.  Brandon also needed

to finish up wiring their garage and porch. 

My mom has taken our family before but it was a 

few years ago when Sierra does not remember and Owen

was not born so we were excited to go again.

We all loved how close the bears came up to our car.

We were told to have our windows rolled

up but after seeing some of the employees walking around

and petting the bears we knew that they were not to

dangerous. 

We loved the bear cubs the best.  They look pretty big in the 

picture but are about the same size as a large dog but with 

more fur.  The cubs were like little kids.  The employees 

gave them a card board box and the cubs climbed in and 

out and tore it apart.  So cute! 

We next went to the petting zoo and pet some deer.

One deer loved my hand lotion or something because

it would not stop licking my hands.  

Owen would not touch the deer on his own so we

had to hold his hand to the deer.  Paige was also

a little cautions. 

The kids enjoyed the rides and poor Brandon

had to be the designated adult for the train ride.

It was nothing but giggles and more giggles.

The kids then brought their money to pick out

a souvenir at the gift shop.  Riley was bummed

because they did not have a bear necklace with

her name on it like Paige got.  So she did not get

anything.  Brandon and I at the begging of shopping

said "no more stuffed animals".  We have so

 many.  And of course that is all Sierra wanted.

So she got this tiny 3 inch stuffed animal.  

Of all the animal figures Owen could have 

picked from like Bears, Deer, Elk, Moose and 

more  that we saw he wanted a dinosaur.  

After Bear World we drove to my mom's stake

center to have free chili and walk around the

preparedness fair before heading home for Brandon

to wire the garage.