Sunday we took a ride to another attraction that Jim found called The Ark Encounter. It’s a life size replica of Noah’s Ark created by Ken Ham, an Australian religious visionary based on an interpretation of the bible. It was created to teach the religious beliefs that God was unhappy with the direction man was going and had Noah build an Ark to preserve man and animals while he created a flood to wipe out most of mankind.

The belief is along with many species of animals Noah had his wife and three sons with their wives on the Ark while the world was flooded for 40 days. After the flood Noah and his family repopulated the earth. This all happened almost 4000 years before Christ was born.

The exhibit had all kinds of displays and mock ups inside and was very impressive. Outside they had a play park for the kids and a small but very enjoyable zoo. It was a 2 hour drive each way so after that we headed home.