"Madeline at the Ballet"

I took Madeline to this particular ballet titled, "Madeline at the Ballet" based on the character and story developed by Ludwig Bemelmans. She really enjoyed seeing her dance teachers and other kids from her dance studio perform.




The character, Madeline


Madeline's Acro Instructor

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A Visit to Global Wildlife

This year for Mother's Day, my Mom, wanted to visit Global Wildlife in Folsom, LA, with her kids and grandkids. My brother, his wife, Seamus, Madeline, my Mom, and I headed to the beautiful grassy "plains" of Louisiana. It is amazing that we have something like this so close to where I live. It's much better than a zoo, to me. The animals have plenty of room to roam free on 500 acres, and you can actually feed them. One of the interesting stories that the tour guide told was that during Hurricane Katrina, they kind of had to let the animals fend for themselves (where do you put buffalo, zebra, giraffes, deer, etc during a hurricane anyway). Following the hurricane, some people went to check on the animals and could not find them. They thought that they had all escaped or died. They kept searching and eventually found all of the animals, with an addition of two or three newborns, all lined up, big and small, on the highest point on the property.

Below you will see two zebras that are only three weeks old, a picture of the giraffes, this is as close as we could get to them today, and a llama who was 13 months pregnant. We learned that llamas carry there unborn babies for 15 months.