Ostrich Festival

If you haven't heard of the Chandler Ostrich Festival, well you're about to. My mom lives for this kind of stuff, and my dad... well, he lives to avoid it. Carnival rides, games, animals, shows, musical acts like Vertical Horizon, Ostrich racing, FUNNEL CAKE! What's not to love?

My Aunt Rie Rie made a spontaneous trip down to see us so we went to the Festival and headed straight to the Petting Zoo. I saw all sorts of strange and new "doggies."

This is an emu, not an ostrich.

This little fawn really liked licking the sugar from my sucker off my hands. It tickled.

The camel was very friendly.

The bird of the hour. Majestic, isn't it?

Kissing the Zebu.

The Zebra was not so friendly: "Do not feed fingers to the Zebra."