Tiger!

And here is the coolest, craziest thing we did yesterday.  I was intending to just flip a U in the parking lot of the Natural Bridge Zoo.  While I was turning around, Lucy saw a sign that said you could get your picture with a tiger cub.  I said wow, there is no way that is possible...how in the world could this little teeny-tiny zoo out in rural Virginia have real tiger cubs?  And why would they let you pet them?  I said maybe the animals are fake...I mean we ARE right next to a wax museum.  Lucy was kind of curious though.  I said well, I'll park and you go ahead and run inside and ask them if their animals are real.  :) 

So Lucy ran inside and came back out practically giddy.  Turns out their animals ARE real.  You CAN pet a tiger cub!  So we did.  We pet a tiger cub.  I'm not even kidding.  It was awesome.  We got our picture petting a five-month-old white tiger cub named Zeus.  Of course they charge 20 bucks a person for the privilege...but it goes toward feeding the tiger.  And sadly we weren't allowed to take pictures with our own cameras.  So the below is a picture of a picture.  But it captures the general awesomeness of petting a tiger cub.