Back To Oatman

On Saturday Eric had to go to Needles, CA for work, so the kids and I went with him. While waiting for him to finish his job, we had a picnic at the park. We are very well acquainted with this park, as we have spent hours and hours there over the past few years waiting for Eric to fix the T.V. system at the nearby Motel 6.

 

After Eric finished, we then headed over to one of my favorite places: Oatman, AZ. I have posted a few times about Oatman before. Most recently, a few months ago, when I detailed my severe disappointment that we were late getting to Oatman, and all of the burros had headed up into the hills. But not this time! The burros were there, and more than ready to eat the carrots we brought. FYI: Bring your own carrots, and bring lots and lots of them. They sell carrots there, but for a very steep price.

Sade is an extreme animal lover, and has no fear of the burros. She was more than happy to feed them carrots.

The burros will completely surround you if they know you have carrots, but will completely ignore you if you don't. Eric being surrounded:

Jackson likes the burros, but not so much he would actually hold a carrot and feed them. He dropped all of his carrots on the ground for them to eat. This one was just his size:

Megan has what she says is a "healthy fear" of the burros. I say it is an irrational fear, but, regardless, she surprised me by feeding one of the them:

But soon they started to surround her, which did not please her in the least:

A few more pics from our time in Oatman:

After leaving Oatman, we traveled to Laughlin, NV to spend the rest of the afternoon and evening on the river:

I love a good day trip.