Nev, Coda and I all went to the Wild Animal Sanctuary early in May with our church group. www.wildanimalsanctuary.org/ - my first visit here. It is located in the eastern plains of Colorado about 1 hour 20 minutes from Lafayette. It is a rescue sanctuary that houses large wild animals, many of whom were once abused, neglected, etc, from circuses and domestic homes, believe it or not. The neat thing about this sanctuary is how you observe the animals. They believe that people are less threatening to aniamls if they are ABOVE them as opposed to on their level. So they built a 3/4 mile bridge that is several hundred feet above the land in which the aniamls roam for us spectators to watch the animals. And they truly seemed unaffected by us. By far the coolest part of this trip was the very end - where there is a semi-enclosed section to house the mountain lion (I suppose to create a cave-like home for them). There were 6-7 lions in this airy greenhouse like enclosure. As soon as we entered, the lions started roaring. Before we knew it, all half dozen or so lions were making thier scarles, intense enough to make the hair on your body stand up and force goose bumps all over. It was a very cool day and we had a blast picnicing there with our friends from Community United CHurch of Christ. We are not official members of this church but they sure do accept us as if we were. Probably some of the open and loving people I've engaged with. www.cuccboulder.org/. They even had a welcome cake for Coda this month during fellowship and acknowledged him and and our family in the Joys and Concerns section of service. It was pretty special. 
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