Wednesday, March 5, 2008

A Day at the Zoo

In honor of Teacher Comp day we decided to take a trip to the Hogle Zoo. The girls had a lot of fun and we were blessed with very pleasant weather.
This was the coolest part of the Zoo. They were feeding the tigers when we got there and they are so big, and gorgeous, and fun to watch
Maile liked everything we saw. I think she liked it more then Darci.
Darci had to see how she measured up.
Maile too.
We took our large double jogging stroller with us, but not once did either of the girls ride in it. They wanted to walk the whole time. What troopers!
Nothing like a little lunch of PB&J by the penguins. Fortunately we were down-wind from the fishy smell.
Maile and Darci loved the giraffes. Darci kept calling all of them Melman. I found that funny since we don't even own the movie Madagascar.
These tiger statues were kind of close together and Darci got her foot stuck between them. She was stressed, but we had to take a picture.
Maile and Grandpa looking at the bears.
The cougars were alert and fun to watch. It is rare that we come this early in the year, so it was nice to see them awake and looking around.
More with the pacing black bear.
Darci and grandpa with the elephants.
Maile holding on for dear life.
Cool shot of the Rhino.
We detoured a little to play and rest from running all over the zoo.
Darci and Maile got to play on the giant elephant. In the summer it squirts water, but this time it was a good think it didn't or we would have been wet and sorry.But they did get to see the real thing, and that was the best part to them.

1 comment:

Melinda said...

Natalie, you have no idea how jealous I am, we've been wanting to go to the zoo since last week and every time we try it falls through! Now I want to go even worse, glad you had a fun time though! The pics are great!