the Zoo!

Yesterday, John took a day off of work using our anniversary as the excuse so we headed out to the Zoo knowing the weather would make it extra pleasant. Dorinda was a little hesitant about going because apparently her last zoo experience wasn't so pleasant. There are two things besides all the beautiful animals that make this zoo so nice to go to, all the trees (therefore a ton of shade) and the fact that it is free.


We began our adventure by visiting the monkey house. Karissa took it upon herself to talk to the monkeys. We then continued on to eat lunch. Karissa said she really wanted to see the lions so we headed over in that direction.





On the way we got distracted by the giraffes. As it would happen we ended up spending most of our time here. They had a baby and it was very cute. Karissa was very impressed by how tall they were. Then we headed toward the big cats. They were all napping so not too exciting, but Karissa thought it was funny that they took naps like her.



We then decided to ride the train to the other side of the zoo to see the elephants. John was very excited about this because we went through several tunnels. They also had a baby elephant. Somehow Karissa was most impressed by the size of their poo. We ended our time by going and seeing the butterflies. We all had a lot of fun taking pictures. I wanted to get some pictures of animals to put in Caleb's room. Dorinda didn't have much luck with her picture taking though, she ended up getting a lot of backsides of the animals. It turned out to be a fun albeit tiring day!