The two baby elephants were taking baths when we got there. The girls loved to see them splashing around and shaking their ears and playing with each other in the water.
The gorillas were awesome!! They have this huge viewing area where the glass goes from floor to ceiling, so the gorillas can walk right up to the glass if they want to. That's exactly what this gorilla did. Within seconds of the girls getting their turn up at the glass, this HUGE gorilla came over to the plate of veggies by the glass, picked up a bunch of brocolli, stuffed it into his mouth, then walked back and forth in front of the glass with the brocolli hanging out of his mouth. The girls were thrilled!!
The bears were cool and sad at the same time. We found out that during the previous night, one of the brown bears had passed away from old age. It was a bummer not to get to see any of the brown bears, but they loved watching this black bear take a bath.
I think these were gazelles, but I almost think they were called something else. Just another neat animal the girls had never seen before.
The girls loved the giraffes. They couldn't believe how tall they were and had so much fun watching them walk around.
We didn't think we'd get to see the lions at first, because they were napping high up on a ledge and you couldn't really see them. Then the male woke up and poked his head up, and the girls finally got to see a lion. So glad though that Robbie has such an awesome camera, so he could get such a good picture of the lions for the girls to look at.
The ostrich wasn't moving much at first either. The girls didn't show much interest in it thanks to it being in the same enclosure as the giraffe, but once we started talking about how fast it could run and that it couldn't fly, Gwen at least showed a bit more interest in it.
The rhino has always been one of Gwen's favorites. She has loved rhinos since she was about 2 (I know...a weird animal to have as a favorite). It was fun to get to see some rhinos again.
A new part of the zoo are those tunnels that you can walk under and the fish/animals swim around it. They had one for the polar bears, and then a short walk down the path there was another tunnel filled with sharks. Gwen and Grace loved it! They loved watching the sharks swim so close and know that the sharks couldn't hurt them. Gwen loved looking at their teeth and Grace would wave over and over again and say "Hi shark." That was one of my favorite parts of the zoo.
The sea lions were a lot of fun to watch. The girls got to sit right by the window, and some of the sea lions kept swimming back and forth in front of the window, which just made the girls giggle with excitement.
The otters were so cute...they've always been one of my favorite animals.
The polar bear is something new that they've added since I was last there. It was so cool to see a polar bear. And we got there while the polar bear was having some play time with his ball. He was pouncing on it, batting it back and forth between his front paws, and knocking it into the pool and then swimming after it. So much fun to watch the polar bear playing.
We saw so many other animals too. There was a whole monkey house filled with lemurs and baboons and many other different monkeys. We saw penguins and different fish, and the girls even got to touch some sting rays. We saw camels and meerkats and just so many many other animals. We all had such a blast at the zoo. I'm so glad we were able to take them. They still talk about it and all the cool animals they saw.
They had misters positioned here and there throughout the zoo to help cool people off, and the girls loved running through them. Gwen and Grace would run back and forth until they had water dripping from their hair.
Georgia was most content to sit in the cool little stroller we rented from the zoo that looked like a safari jeep.
The girls were so thrilled to have their second cousin Nate come with us to the zoo. They love Nate.
They had lots of fun with their second cousins Joanie and Ricky too.
We had a wonderful time at the zoo. More updates still to come!!
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