Alligators!

 When Zane and I visited Miami to meet Talmage, we spent the whole time in the hospital except for two outings in the afternoon to get a break. After our outings, we would head back to the hospital and stay late. One afternoon we had lunch on Ocean Drive in South Beach and another we checked out Gator Park. We wanted to see if this was an outing that we could take our boys to when we came back with them. We also knew when we came back, only one of us would go with the boys while the other stayed behind with Lili (and if Talmage was out of the hospital, then with him.) We had a great time and were so excited to show it to Dallin and Gavin who are obsessed with alligators!

 

 There were three different places to check out the alligators in cages.

We saw an alligator show which included seeing alligators and a scorpion up close and then the presenter showed us how to capture an alligator.

The presenter liked to put animals right up to any girl that was a little skirmish. He picked me out right away! He wanted to make sure I got a good picture!

As long as he didn't touch anything in the alligators mouth, the presenter was fine. As soon as he touched something, the alligator snapped. Good thing the presenter had great reflexes!

The presenter came up from behind and got on the alligators back. He then grabbed the mouth and pulled it up tucking it under his chin so that his hands are free to tie up the mouth.

We also went on an airboat ride to see alligators and other wild life in the wild.

Can you see him?