Warning: This post is photo laden.

Our whole family got on the train early Saturday morning to go to NW Trek on the Train to Trek. It was so much fun!

They do this several times during the summer and early fall. We found out about it through our local homeschool group, and since we used up most of our vacation time having a baby, we figured we'd spend some of our vacation money on this trip. The cost is actually quite reasonable for what you get: the train tickets, activities and displays on the train, local authors telling about the history of the area, transportation from the train to NW Trek, entrance into the NW Trek, the tram tour and more activities on the way back with prizes. We brought our lunch to reduce our costs and because we knew we'd have better food than the park.


Here is Jerome playing on the green after lunch.

The best part was the tram, I think. It was fun to look at the exhibits there, but we really were able to see the animals on the tram tour (though we did get to see two grizzly bears wrestling while we walked around the exhibits).


This female moose walked right by the tram when we first started out.


We saw several bison. This one looked particularly nice.


I really like how the goats' eyes are glowing in this shot.


We saw both of the white tailed deer they had there. They are sterile, which is why there are only two. They have a ton of black tailed deer, apparently, but the tram driver/tour guide was surprised, because we didn't see a single one. I told Rich that was because they are all at our house, eating our roses and vegetables.


This was a picture Rich took of me and Yasmina. He likes this one a lot. Jerome's head is right next to us. Yasmina looks quite a bit like Jerome in this photo. The hands behind us are Dominic's (on the left) and Elijah's (on the right).


We saw lots of sheep and their little lambs.


This was the winning elk that day with his harem. He had been defeated on a fairly regular basis, but that morning won the clash with the other, dominant bull.


Here we are going around the lake.


This was one of the owl exhibits. Our pictures of the other owls didn't turn out as well.

The only thing that would have made this trip better would have been to have had more time at the Trek. We really only had a little over an hour to look around, what with needing to eat lunch and all. We'll have to go back sometime (driving, it's only about 45 minutes from our house) to take our time looking through the park.

Labels: Family, Homeschooling