A trip to the Zoo

One of the things that we decided to do this year was to get a family membership to our local zoo.  We bought our membership last month when they were offering discounts and decided to make quick use of it.  We left our house early on Friday morning (the 27th of May) and got to the Zoo right after it opened.  It turned out to be an absolutely perfect morning for the zoo!  The weather was just a bit breezy, so we opted to wear our jackets.  And we had gotten there early enough that there really wasn't a crowd yet, and the animals were awake.  We had a really good time and I was surprised that it didn't wear me out like I thought it would.  I'll definitely be looking for another cool-ish day to take the kids back.  Kai loves the giraffes and so we also bought a giraffe frequent feeding card.  I was surprised that he really did want to feed them this time and he almost did it without dropping the food!  We did end up stopping for a picnic lunch right before hitting our last building (the monkey house) and Kai was so nice to share his sandwich with a chipmunk!  We had such a great morning that both kids even took a nap on the way home.  Yay!

Feeding the giraffe his lettuce.

I could not figure out why the giraffes kept licking the observation deck.

The giraffes are right there!  Finn is SO scared of animals he just cried and screamed the whole time.

Playing at the children's play area.

Finn was looking for Kai!  So cute!

I don't know why he is looking so concerned here.

Kai with the moose.

Hopefully soon Finn will be big enough to know to stand still for these kind of pictures.

This peacock was hanging out right next to a group of female peacocks.

While at the bird exhibit Finn ended up getting soaking wet in this pond.  I'm fairly sure one of us got pooped on, too!

Kai learned how to pet a baby wallaby.

Kai wanted a picture here.  Isn't he so handsome?!

Finn was sizing up the monkeys.

Did I mention Finn doesn't like animals?!  He wanted nothing to do with sitting down next to the glass that was next to the gorilla.

Once he calmed down he realized it was pretty neat to be just a foot away from a gorilla.