Yellowstone Bear World

When we were having our family dinner before our trip Wendy said "oh, you have to stop at Bear World my kids loved it!" I called and Bear World was closed for the winter but low and behold they were going to be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday for UEA weekend. I guess they told the bears that too so they wouldn't hibernate before we got there. When we drove out of Yellowstone we came out the West entrance and stopped at Bear World in the wonderful town of Rigby Idaho right outside of Rexburg. Yep, I lived in Rexburg two years and never went to Bear World. How can that be?

Bear World is kind of like a bear safari. You drive around in your car (with your windows rolled up) and there are bears everywhere. Wandering around in front of your car, lounging about. Kind of cool.

They also had a petting zoo. There were no bears in the petting zoo;(

Bambi! The deer kept licking us. I guess we are salty. They also tried to eat our clothes.

Sean really wanted to hold that chicken.

They had some silly little rides. Thank goodness for Alika.

And the highlight! Feeding baby bears! It took Sean awhile to get brave enough to hold the bottle. Those baby bears are nine months old and they out weigh him. They are kind of like huge over grown puppies and they want to climb on you, chew on you. When the bottle is empty and it gets empty fast they just toss their heads and throw the bottles to the ground. They got to feed six different bears.

Alika took no warming up. She would have rolled around on the ground with that bear if they let her. Heck she would have let it sleep with her. She fell in love.

Glad we didn't run into in Grizzly's in Yellowstone.

A beary happy family.