The Zoo!

Since I didn't have any pictures from the last time we went to the zoo in November (as a result of losing the camera) I took the kids again. I thought the free zoo day was the 3rd Wednesday of the month but it is really the 4th! So we showed up to an almost empty parking lot. I decided that we should just pay to go through since we drove to get there and would be spending a fair amount of money in gas if we drove home and then back to the zoo again a week later. When we went to pay we even got their discounted winter rates so it really wasn't too bad! It was so nice to have the zoo to ourselves! No one got lost :)

Here is Hunter having climbed on the wall next to the entrance

Here is Tucker with the Giraffes

The Zebras were at it again and the children had fun watching them 

Hunter also successfully climbed into the Lion drinking fountain's mouth

We got to see the male lions today instead of the females and they were active and making sounds. Brylee was not too fond of it and tried to hide behind the stroller.

Brylee is at the stage of making silly faces for the camera so here she is on the trunk of an elephant statue.

How many kids can fit on the back of the rhinoceros. 

Here are my little eaglets :)

The Sea Otter cage was being cleaned this time around so the kids didn't get to see them jumping and playing. This was a favorite stop last time we were here but they enjoyed the otter statue nonetheless.

Brylee was getting a ride from the sea otter. 

And Tucker is giving him a hug.

Polar bears are so much fun!

Everyone wanted their own pictures with the tigers

And our final stop was the atrium (I think that is what it is called). It was nice that there were not lots of other kids around making it hard to see all the spiders, frogs, snakes, lizards, etc. The children really wanted me to video everything!

This was Tucker's favorite bird. He loved the brilliant yellow color. The bird however did not want to be photographed. Every time I pulled the camera out he would hide in the crack and clean out his house!

It was so fun to go and see all the animals. Most of them were active in the morning having just eaten or still eating as we walked around. It was also super enjoyable to not have tons of people so that the children could just explore without me stressing out. We ate our lunch inside the sea lion and harbor seal exhibit where it was warm, which was only possible because hardly anyone else was there. The children were able to watch the sea lions be fed and perform a few tricks for the zoo keepers too. I am debating whether or not I want to take them to the zoo again the last week of February for another free day or not...