Cookie the Hamster...

In early July, Maggie got to attend a super fun summer camp. It was called Camp Safari and was an interactive animal day camp. It was located at a local school, where the campers got to learn about over 70 different species of animals. They learned about their habitats, diet, behavior and grooming. My little animal lover was in heaven! She has always had a special affinity for animals and loved getting to see and handle the various animals up close and personally.

Maggie loved learning about the birds.

One of the stars of the camp is this big girl...Rosie the albino Burmese python. She is roughly 14 ft long, fyi. This picture of her was of her just hanging out in her feeding pool out in the middle of the hallway after she had just eaten a frozen, full size bunny. Wow!

Maggie got to go to camp with a few of her favorite people. Her cousins Lincoln and Lucy and bestie Clayton, all had a great time that week. The guy in the middle is Mr. Allison, he runs the camp and does all the teaching. Cool guy!

The very best part of the camp experience was that at the end of the week each camper was able to bring home a "critter" to host for the weekend. You could select your 3 top choices. They had every kind of critter you could imagine at camp. Snakes, lizards, ferrots, bunny's, birds, hamsters, mice, hedgehogs, tarantulas, skinks, turltes, chinchillas, parrots etc. Maggie's top choices were a hamster, ferrot, then hedgehog. We got picked to host a hamster. So Thursday after camp we loaded up our little new friend and headed home. We forgot to ask the hamsters name or gender...so we gave it a weekend name of "Cookie".

Meet Cookie.

It was a darling, calm, cuddly, clean little guest. Maggie LOVED it!

She played dress up with it.

Cleaned her cage...

and carried it around every where with her...

even in her pocket! 

The last morning of her stay, the girls decided they wanted to have breakfast with Cookie. It would stay in this big bowl and just hang out. It was a fun way to safely have her out of the cage. 

Maggie even took a nap with it. Can you see it all snuggled up and sleeping in the middle of the picture? Two peas in a pod!!! It was a very sweet guest and we were thankful to have it over the weekend. It sure made us wish we could keep it for longer.

If you can keep a secret...We are going to get the girls both a hamster for Christmas! Yay!!!

Already looking forward to Camp Safari next year!