Willowbrook Wildlife Center

We recently learned about the Willowbrook Wildlife Center. It is right across the street from College of DuPage. If you find an injured wild animal, you can take it there and they will do their best to heal it and release it back into nature.

There are some animals that are able to heal, but their injuries prevent them from being sent back to the great outdoors (birds that can no longer fly, etc). So the WWC just keeps them and takes care of them. Anyone can visit, and it's free!

Most of their animals are birds, and there are a few reptiles. Evie was very interested in the turtle tank:

Unfortunately, Gavin was convinced that the birds were going to fly into his head, and he didn't want to go hear the cages. So I snapped the photo below and we left after only about 10 minutes:

Since we left so soon, we had time to kill before dinner. And it just so happens that we had to drive right past Kids Town to get to the WWC...so I took Evie and Gavin there for the rest of the afternoon.

They had a great time, and so did I because the place was almost empty! Less crowd equals less stress for me, less germs, and more toys for the kids!