Raise your hand if you want to be eaten by a polar bear

We decided to not miss any of the southern California sites, so we also took a trip to the San Diego Zoo. The gist of one part of the polar bear exhibit is that the children (and some adventurous adults) can pretend to be seals, sticking their heads above the surface of the ice. As part of the polar bear exhibit the point is that the seals are gambling with their lives taking breaths of air above water. The kids don't seem to fear for their lives.

 More activities with the threat of death for the children. Henry was impaled on the tusks of this charging elephant.

Then his lifeless carcass was devoured by the saber tooth tiger, which of course was just doing his duty as one of Josiah's minions.

Josiah also uses his supernatural powers to control other giant animals. It is kind of like that scene from Crocodile Dundee.

The Meerkats weren't buying the mind control thing. Henry's toothless smile was still worth including in the blog.