Happy New Year at Hollywild

On New Year's we took Tessa to Hollywild. It's a crazy place where animals roam free and you can feed them right from your car. The park was still decorated for Christmas with millions of lights. After turning off the main road we pulled Tessa out of her carseat and she "drove" with Daddy. Of course, this was a huge thrill all by itself since I'm a major carseat Nazi.

Notice the look on Ryan's face, he had just washed, polished and waxed my car. And here we are driving through muddy fields inviting animals with horns to come right up to the windows.

We saw antelope, deer, zebras, ostriches, bison, cows and more.

It was all fun and games until the zebra tried to eat me and I screamed. Tessa was on my lap at the time so it totally scared her. I love animals and don't scare easily but with this guy all I could see was teeth.

At the end of the drive is a place where you can get out of the car and feed baby animals, roast marshmellows and drink hot chocolate.

After my dramatics in the car, we had to do a little zebra therapy. I showed Tessa that zebras are nothing to be afraid of. Notice this zebra is much smaller than the other one.