Fort Wayne Children's Zoo

We went to visit Aunt Marlene in Indiana while Chris attended a conference in KY.  

We stopped at the Fort Wayne's Children Zoo on our way.  Beautiful zoo!

It had a lot of different animals than our zoo in GR.

It was hot and humid.  Luke was not impressed.  I put him in the front carrier and he slept and sweated his way through the zoo.

We saw some cool animals.  The male lion was right by the window and seemed to be looking at us. 

The zoo has about 7 giraffes.  This one is a male and the tallest giraffe they have.  He put his huge head over the fence.  But don't stand too close, he swings his head when he's agitated.  No one was supposed to pet him.  The zookeeper coming on duty shooed everyone away.

Look at his long tongue!

Vultures.  They even look mean.

Joel finding some shade.

Aaron had  a great time.

Noah got a sliver aka blister, so he spent most of his time barefoot.

Banana trees growing in the greenhouse.

So cute!  A mama primate with her baby.

Sea lions (not the same as seals).  These were really neat.

Penguin feeding time.  The keepers made sure everyone got their fair share.

Our big splurge, the log ride.  Kids loved it.

Mommy and Noah's log.

Watching the sea lions train on our way out of the zoo.

Group pic!

Spring Break at the Zoo

The boys' cousins and aunt had spring break this week so we took a trip to the zoo.

Sisters!  Connie, Cady and  Corinna.

I tried to pick the best shot of Ang.  Joel and Jayden look a little nervous.

The girls and Andrew.

Connie Ella

Cassidy, seeing how high she can jump.

Corinna did pretty good...

but Aunt Ang jumped as high as a kangaroo!

Group shot!

Jayden, Cady, Andrew, Noah, Connie, Cassidy, Ang, Joel, Corinna, and Aaron

Two Zoo trips this week!

There are great perks to having a zoo pass and living only 5 minutes from the zoo.  We were able to go twice this week since we've had such gorgeous weather.  I love how each time we go, we something a little different.

On Tuesday, we went with Aunt Shell.  Still cool enough for a jacket but it was a beautiful sunny day.  As you can see, Andrew was helping Aaron to look at the camera.

On this trip, one of the chimps came right up to the window and stuck its face right in front of Joel.  Another chimp was clowning for the camera.  

 I think the bears are absolutely fascinating, but its not often that you see them moving around.  Today they were swimming in their water hole and play fighting!  

Another great perk with our pass is that we can bring two friends for free each time if we want.  Today we brought Aunt Andrea and Jayden. Andrew was our tour guide, announcing which animal was our next destination (He's a little familiar with the zoo!).  And of course, we took the obligatory picture at the penguin statues on the way out.  Oh, and can you believe I got them all looking toward the camera on the first try??

Thanks again to blue Grandma!

Last zoo visit of 2011

 Next Saturday is the last day the zoo is open for 2011 so we went one last time this morning with Kaiya and Jayden.  We've already used our pass a ton this season and it doesn't expire until July.  They boys still like to go even though we've gone a bunch of times and its fun to be able to bring friends. 

Bears were pretty frisky today.  The grizzly was pounding at the door.  Hope he didn't want to get out!

Kids in front of the bears.  We made them stay and watch them for a bit.

Happy boy ! zoo

This guy was pretty funny.  He kept sticking his tongue out at us.  We called him Gramps.

This spider monkey looks to be heavily encumbered with child.

Playground to ourselves, yahoo!

I think they're all actually looking at the camera.