3 days and over 900 miles later…
It has been a BUSY couple of days! First off my good friend Jess and I decided to go to a workshop in Lubbock. We started from FW and headed toward Amarillo. We were planning on visitng Cadillac Ranch and then driving into Lubbock. HOWEVER.. my Tom Tom navigation system which had yet to fail me UNTIL NOW, decided to take us on a little adventure. We ended up in Oklahoma! Yeap. A trip that SHOULD have taken 4 1/2 hours took over 9 HOURS!!! We were extremely delierious by the time we reached Lubbock. It wasn’t all a loss though… while still on the road in Oklahoma, I spotted a billboard in the middle of nowhere for a DRIVE THROUGH SAFARI ZOO! I have ALWAYS wanted to go to one of these things so I begged Jess to turn around!!! We spent a VERY eventful 2 hours at Arbuckle drive through safari and it was AWWWWEEESOME! We were like 2 kids. We knew it was going to be an exciting 7 mile drive through the park when only after the first 5 minutes we were surrounded by a pack of Alpaca’s who refused to let us leave. I brought my video camera along that B got me for Christmas and I got lots of hilarious videos from the zoo. I went through an snagged a few shots to blog but I have yet to look through everything because as soon as I got home from Lubbock I got sick. :(
One of the Alpaca’s staring Jess down.
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My own personal self portrait in Jess’s dirty mirror. :)
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On to the Llamas!
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I wanted to take this little guy home with me.
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Another self portrait. :)
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The miniature donkey’s kept trying to eat Jess’s car!!
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Then they started licking all the windows!!
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He’s SMILING.
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He just kept doing the Elvis lip over and over and I was laughing hysterically!
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Tell me that’s not scary!
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Check out that tongue!!!!!
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Once we got BACK to Texas.. we found CAMEL’S! They were just in a pasture on the side of the road! How random!? So we saw camels in 2 different states in the same day. That has to be a record.
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Once we FINALLY made it to Lubbock we had an awesome time during our workshop with Lauren Clark. Here are a few of my favorite shots from our session with our models, who rocked it by the way.
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Check out those eyes!!!
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Here are a few shots I stole from Jess! :)
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He was cheesing for me but I was actually shooting a baby deer past him. He was very curious though.
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Ashley - I have always wanted to go to that place. We go to Turner Falls every summer, and it’s literally right down the road. I’ll have to make sure we go this summer. It looks like a lot of fun!
Meagan Williams - LOL… Those are hilarious:):) But very very good!!
Dusty - aww.. it looks like ya’ll had a BLAST & the elvis face cracks me up too!
Meagan Williams - This couple looks so sweet and very much PERFECT for one another… you did great on these!!:):)
shelly - didnt you just LOVE arbuckle!! we are planning to take blake there this summer! these pictures are so cute and oh so funny!
Jan Marie - Cool pictures! I feel like I was almost there. Your road trip/safari sounded great. Glad you’re home safe. Love you. mama.
erica - it looks like ya’ll had a lot of fun! the pictures are great & i LOVE the zebras :) haha
elise - OH MY GOOOODNESSS! okay here are my favoritesss : the zebra pic! of ccourse :) the pic that you took of yourself, so beautiful. the treee. ohh heckk i love all of them!!! ♥ glad you had fun & ya’lll did an amazingggg job [duhh]! ;)
Jess - Ok FIRST OF ALL, my mirror was ONLY dirty because of youuuuuuuur stinky DONKEY FRIENDS!!! And second, seriously that Alpaca was EVIL.
Dawn - Looks like a great time!
Jynna - Sounds like a fun road trip. LOVE all the animals. Aubrey would go crazy over these animals :)
samantha - Looks like ya’ll had a great time and made the most out of going the wrong way….hate that you are sick. hope you get to feeling better!
Jessica Hall - My lord, may I ask WHY you did a tour of the petting zoo animals of Texas? hahaha.
Just for you, I will have a llama in my wedding. I will paint it pink, douse it in glitter and rhinestones, and I will ride in on it. That way it is something new for your portfolio. And then maybe later I will have a manger complete with donkeys and squirrels.
Melody - I remember going there when I was little!!! It looks like it was a very exciting trip!!!
Nickole Drake - So fun! I’m jealous! One day I’d love to meet you two!
Toni - the animals are so cute, love it!! so jealous of you too!
Whitney Turner - Girl I’m totally in love with your zebra picture.
lindsey - Looks like yall had a ton of fun..the pictures are totally hilarious…can’t wait to see you!!
Courtney Odom - Ha ha those pix are awesome!