The Bird Park and the Ferry

This last Saturday we took Cannon and Mya to the Penang Bird Park. It's not on Penang, but they still call it that. Cannon has been asking since we got here if we could take the car boat (the ferry.) Since the Bird Park was on the main land I thought it would be a great idea to combine the two. The Ferry was pretty cool, they have like four ferry's running and so you never have to wait that long. It's free to take the ferry to the mainland which I thought was interesting. The same to go on the big bridge to the mainland. You have to pay 7.70 ringet to come back, which is a little over two dollars to take your car on the ferry. I thought that was a pretty good deal, cause when we have taken the ferry across it Lake Powell, it's always over $50.00. Granted we are usually pulling the boat, but....

We got out of the car on the way over and back, most people stay in their cars and just ride across, but Cannon wanted to climb all the ladders and go to the bottom level of the Ferry and on the very top, which I didn't let him do. But he raced all over and scared me the whole time. He thought it was awesome. He has become quite the picture taker as well. I thought the one he took of Brian and I was great. Mya thought the ferry ride just okay. She all of the sudden is very frightened of loud noises. The ferry was loud so she held Brian most of the time. She is a little tired of people asking to hold her all the time too. If she is holding on to one of us, she just puts her head on our shoulders and says, no. There is quite a bit of loud thunder here and a helicopter that flies really close to the ground, and right on the shoreline and is very loud. She will run around and yell, "Copper, copper," if she starts to hear any noise that she thinks is going to get loud. Then she wants to be picked up.

We got lost on the way to the Bird Park, cause we were following the same map, I need to get a better one, but it said we were to drive off the ferry and go in a straight line and we would be at the Bird Park. I think Brian is going to stop taking these outings with me if I don't get better directions first. He gets pretty upset and grumpy with all the driving around.

The Bird Park was pretty cool. We watched a Bird show right when we got there and they let these hawks, and eagles fly right over us. Mya loves, loves birds, so she was yelling and pointing the whole time. When Mya wants you to see something she is looking at and you're not paying attention she will slap you face and say, "look, look."

After the bird show, they let everyone come and hold all the bird in the show, which was pretty cool. They had tons of different kinds. Cannon and Mya each held one bird and then they were totally done. Mya loved to look, but didn't want them close to her. They had some little bay owls that you could pet with your finger and when you did, they would dance. It was cool, it took Cannon the whole time at the park to work up the courage to touch one, and when he did, finally, he didn't want to stop, he thought it was so funny. I am glad we went there, Cannon has been asking for a bird for a pet, and now he doesn't want one, cause they are so noisy and stinky. I agree. No birds for pets. He has been looking for another cockroach though....