BEAR WORLD!!!

Bear World has been on my bucket list to go to, ever since I went to school at BYU Idaho. When my mom drove me up to school, we saw a sign for Bear World, and I knew someday, I had to go there. That was over four years ago that I was first aware of Bear World. Since that time I have had dreams about the wonders of Bear World. I had many ideas of what happened at Bear World. I knew it would be amazing......but I had no Idea how amazing. Lets put it this way....You are driving to Bear World, and you are soooooo excited to get there. On your way, you get pulled over by a cop with a hat that is a foot tall about twenty miles from Bear World.. He gives you a ticket for speeding. You feel that you didn't deserve the ticket. You drive off your steam. As soon as you see the Bear World sign, all your worries are gone. You forget you got a ticket, you forget about the mean cop,and the tears that were swelling in your eye ducks, immediately disappear. That's how good Bear World is! Its where all your wildest dreams come true!

I want this sign on my front door.

The entrance!!!!

I would only hope death would be involved.  Jake, Tuna and I were willing to take some risk for an adventure with real live bears! When you drove into the park, you would get to stay in your car, and drive threw a Yellowstone Bear Park! Not only did they have bears....they had other cool animals! Here is what we saw!!!!

Beautiful white coated mammals. ( I make up things like this when, I don't know the proper name for something. Lets just keep that our secret though.) I really did think he was cute though.

Bambi hiding!

Bambi's baby, Bambi junior! Remember when Bambi's parents died? That was sad. I am glad their generations have come to Bear World to survive.

The white alfa male. He would do this weird shake, and move back and forth. It was actually scary. Jake and I watched for a bit until he sacred us off.

Bear in the water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was so cute! He was a grizzly! He was playing with a log. When the log popped out of the water, it was huge! It really had to be four feet wide. That is a heavy bear to keep that log sunk. Here are some more pictures of our bear encounters. I wish I could explain the excitement, and pure joy I felt at this time. My only advice is, GO TO BEAR WORLD!

White wolf! There were  three wolves that lived with the bears.

The bear is sooo close to our car!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am sooo happy!

A bear passing in front of our car! He is fearless! I wanted him to come closer so I could pet him out the window.

Thanks for the nice wave Mr. Bear.

Wow. So much action happened when we drove threw the bear park. We were allowed to drive in it as many times as we wanted, so we drove in it again! I want to live at Bear World. I am now going only refer to, Kelsey the bear trainer. Tuna loved seeing the bears. Since he didn't actually get to touch one, he wanted to sit on this bear, to try and get the effect of how it would feel to touch one.

hahahah, funny Tuna!

Inside the walking park was soooo neat! There were baby bears, a bear gift shop, bear food, fish pond, petting zoo, rides, spinning bear tea cups, a giant moose! and more! If all of this does not make you want to fly to bear world today...somethings wrong.

baby sleeping bear

spinning bear tea cup

Playing with the goats in the petting zoo!

I think goats have really cute little mouths.

My bearded friends.

Turkeys! And they would let you touch them to!

Jake wanted to touch a deer so bad. He was scared they would run away from him, but they are so used to visitors, Mr. Deer let Jake pet him.

Tuna made a new friend.

lick, lick, lick

Jake tried to feed the deer. He wouldn't have it. Sorry Jake. Next time.

Thats a big feather. Jake touched a Duck.

A harry, muddy pig. He was cute. Jake was loving petting all the animals at the zoo.

chuwbacka chickens

bear time

intimate bear talk

playing king of the log

kneeling to the king

giving the bear servants, royal titles

Bear World is not complete until you become a true bear yourself.

MOOOOOOOOOOSE!

I think these may be rainbow trout. I made that one up again.

a moose hat

can you find Tuna? Its like Wheres Waldo.

Round two driving threw the park! This was sooo awesome!

Buffalo wings!!!!!!

After drive two, Jake and I went back to the park, because Jake bought tickets for us to feed the baby bears!!!!!!!!!! When we fed them we were not allowed to bring our camera in, but we got pictures of us feeding them, I just need to scan them in. There I will right about how rad it was to feed baby bears with a bottle. Best idea ever Jake!

After a magical day of Bear World, it was topped off with a quick drive threw Rexburg, Idaho. I showed Jake the temple they finished there a few years ago, and BYU-I campus, and Nauvoo Housing where I used to live. They were building on, and adding more housing complex. Rexburg is turning into a large area! Neat! Then Jake and I got some candy and drinks at the Chevron, and headed out to Jackson Hole, Wyoming!!!!

Thanks Jake for being the sweetest boyfriend ever! You helped me cross something off my bucket list, I had really wanted to do! Bear World was a blast! Thanks babe!

utah state fair

Jake and I were driving home from France on the I-15 and saw a billboard for the Utah State Fair. We knew right then, this was something we needed to go to. Tuna was ecstatic. We knew we had to take him! We planned to go for Family Night.

When we walked into the fair,our first site was kettle corn, corn dogs, fresh lemonade, and seals. All of what we wanted to be part of! To our surprise, there was a cornucopia of animals! Tuna wanted to go pet the rabbits. You could buy them to! We almost bought Tuna one for his first pet, but thought that might be to much responsibility to start off with. Just a pet is a good start for him.

Who knew we were in for such a treat! MOO MOOS! This ones name is Martha.

Two cows in love.

This cow had to go.........he drank to much Gatorade. We got to see some farmers milk some cows. It was so crazy to see how full of milk they were!

Motherly love

I liked the sheep. They reminded me of the sheep on Babe that said, Baaaaaah rammmmm you! ( someday I will learn to speak lamb, and I will tell you what that means.)

There were vegetable races, for the largest edible growth.

He saw Tuna and wanted him!!!!!

I gave him a kiss in exchange for leaving Tuna alone.

Remember how I got so excited because I thought that this was a pig pin? I thought that the sign read pig.......ieons..I just wanted to meet Wilbur.

The two cutest carrots I have ever seen :)

Jake and I saw a stand for Fried Pickles. We are both huge pickle lovers, so we knew we needed to try one! It was fun, because my sister Amber called when we were eating the pickle! Its always so great to talk to family! Then my dad called. He and Jake made some plans for him to fly home the next day to ask my hand in marriage. I was excited!

That's what tasted like magic. 

cute

From this five pic spread, you should get the point if you ever see a fried pickle stand, you need to try it at least once in your life! It tastes kinda like fried zucchini, but tones of flavor, and yummy fried pickle juice.

Food is always one of the best part of fairs! Jake, Tuna, and I got a Navajo taco with strawberries, whip cream and powder sugar on it! Tastey! Next.....Lemonade!

When we looked up the state fair online, we saw that there were pig races, and that is what I wanted to see most of all! We got great seats for the event!

Here are the cute little piggies racing. They were running so fast, we couldn't get a good picture of them. I loved watching them. The host of the show told us that the piggies race for an Oreo. I always knew I had a common love with pigs.

After the pig races, we went to find the pig pin. It wasn't labeled pigeons......

ear candy

cute nose

The pigs were so cute when they were drinking out of their water spouts. I loveeeeed seeing the pigs. Growing up my sister Cami had a pig at a pig pin. And I used to be an avid pig memorabilia collector. Random fact about my past...

sleeping pig

I bet this was how Wilber was as a child.

We saw a sign for a monstrous alligator. One look would cost one dollar. Worth it. This alligator was huge! I was trying to make him move,so I whistled, and he rose up on his back legs. That was creeeeeepy.

One eyed Willy.

Welcome to the night life of the state fair.

games.....

fun houses....

rides......

This was the first spinny ride we went on. We felt so sick after. I remember as kid, feeling like mom and dad couldn't handle to many rides.....and now I understand how they feel. I am sorry mom and dad I was not more sympathetic and made you ride more rides with me....over.......and over.....They were the biggest troopers! I remember my dad rode of Space Mountain with me 8 times in a row....

We got unlimited ride wrist bands. We had a blast riding on rides till we felt we were going to barf. I'd say the Utah State Fair was a great success.