Trip to the Zoo

We went to the Pt. Deifance Zoo last week with Debbie . . . It was a beautiful day and both kids were excellent. Emeree was as perfect and happy as can be. Ethan was great until the last half hour or so when he was just getting restless and tired of walking. But he was still great - I just had to chase after him a bit.

Here Ethan is at the goat grooming area. We tried feeding the goats too - worked great last year, but this time Ethan just kept throwing the food in the pen instead of letting them eat out of his hand. Emeree seemed to like the Seals the best. She kept tracking them as they swam around their tank.

Ethan and I went to the underwater viewing area for the walrus' and this one kept doing the same thing over and over. He would swim toward the glass on his back then swim up the glass and head the other way - basically a U-turn but right along the glass.

Ethan went down the slides a few times at the kids zone, but once he got to this point in the picture below, he would stop because the slide was hot, so I had to slide down after him to get him off the slide so the other kids could go after him.

Here he is climbing the spider web.

He loved the Meerkats - you can tell from his huge smile in the reflection. The meerkats were staring straight up for a long time since there was a big bird flying overhead - I'm guessing they were waiting to see if they needed to dive back in their holes for safety.

The zoo has some 8 week old tiger cubs - it's hard to tell in this photo, but they are in the back along the wall with their mom.

Strollers weren't allowed in the Shark Feeding Tank area, so I had to stay outside with Emeree while Ethan and Debbie went in. So she just ate her cereal puffs and was happy as a clam.

I think my expectations are always high for the zoo and I come home a bit disappointed each time. Barely any of the animals were out and the monkeys weren't even out that day - just some goat looking thing that wasn't interesting. And this zoo doesn't even have giraffes, or bears, or lions (some of the basic animals). The water animals were the best ones this trip since they were swimming around. We're hoping to go to Woodland Park Zoo later - and hopefully their animals are more fun and actually out in their pens so we can see them. Anyway, Ethan and Emeree had fun, so that's what counts.

. . . oh, and they now charge a dollar to ride the carousel! It was free last year - what's up with that?

And we are in the process of fixing the bathroom. The previous owners had painted it all BLACK. And it was very tight and had no counter space, so we are fixing that. Michael cut a door in the drywall that we are tearing down, so here he is coming through the wall that is about to be demo'd. I had painted all the other walls so there wasn't anymore black - except for the wall that was coming down.