Day 4 - YO, Safari, and Survival

It is our final day and after breakfast we watched a bit of "Fireproof", especially the hot sauce drinking race scene.  Then it was our turn to race off to the YO Ranch for our safari.

We arrived a few minutes late, but were told to go down to the chuckwagon and have some lunch.  It was Bar-B-Que with beans and scalloped potatoes, coleslaw, etc.

Then we went back to "YOHQ" (Y O Ranch Headquarters) and met our safari guide, Verna.  Because there was a gentle rain, we sat inside the vehicle and not on top, much to Luke's disappointment!  However this allowed us to hear Verna talk about the history of the ranch and the various animals we saw.

We saw several kinds of deer, elk, a few rheas, wildebeest, and a couple of giraffes.  One of the giraffes, we hand fed oatmeal cookies!   Not sure how it didn't get a tummy ache, as it ate almost the entire package of the cookies.  By the way, Luke had noticed the cookies when we first climbed aboard, and REALLY wanted to know who the were for!

Luke helped open and close the gates, and on the very last one, he took it upon himself to climb up and sit on the "roof seats".  We let him sit up there, but had Verna drive very slowly back to HQ.

On the way out of the ranch we saw some more animals, including Long-horkin cattle, deer, elk ( those Mexican things), as Luke called them), turkey and zebra!

Luke worked on a surprise for his mother on the way back to Cedar Park, where we returned him to his mom, dad and sister.

We are all exhausted but thankful for the great time we had over the last few days.  And grateful we all survived it!

We noticed immediately on the way home how quiet the car has, and left the radio off....