Zoo Time!

A couple weeks back, Daddy took the day off of work and we headed to the zoo for the day. It was a lovely fall day; about 60 degrees, cloudy, and dry. And a Thursday. All those things added together made for the nicest zoo trip ever. There was NO ONE at the zoo. And the animals were very active.

So were the kids though. C&G were less than enthused about looking at the animals. They were far, far more interested in crawling in and out of the wagon that we rented to haul our lunch and stuff around! Yeah, we won't be doing that again.

Anyway, we got some cool pictures.

Snow leopard.


Colin's favorites....the flamingos!


Some cool ostrich action. Really, this ostrich was STARING us down.



Sadly, MY favorites, the elephants, were kind of disappointing this trip. But we DID measure the kids with a baby elephant!



We got to explore the "Touch a Ray" exhibit a lot more than we usually do, since we weren't wrestling 1000 other kids to pet the rays. It was cool. The rays were a bit too slimy for my taste. But the tunnels were cool.


Oh yeah, then we trapped the kids.



We did let them out....eventually. Oh look, sea otter!


We stopped for a picnic lunch. That's one of my favorite parts of the zoo; you can bring all your food and drink with you and it makes the day so much more affordable. Daddy and G were enjoying cookies!


In the children's section of the zoo, we ran into one of the docents with a screech owl. His name was Crosby. He had a broken wing when someone found in him in the woods. The zoo rescued him and brought him back to health, but his wing won't allow him to take care of himself, so he stays at the zoo. We liked him!


We looped our way back through the zoo to try to catch the tigers playing. And they were! The zoo has three tiger cubs that are 13 months old. They are HUGE and look just like adults, but they can get quite spunky! We caught two of them in the water, wrestling over a stick! So funny!


Then they hopped out of the water and sprinted to the looking glass window.

(That's Colin's head right there next to the tiger!)

So incredibly beautiful.


We also caught the leopard next to his/her glass too. We love big cats. It was an incredible way to see them!




On our way out we had to pass back through the tunnel. Colin had been telling us for weeks that the next time we went to the zoo, we had to get a picture of the tunnel. He likes it. So we got a picture!


Great day!