We're going to the zoo zoo zoo!

For letter Z day we took a trip to the zoo. The Wooland Park Zoo is amazing! This would be the first trip to the zoo for both Alestair and Emmett. I know you would think that since I worked at the zoo Alestair would have visited earlier but there wasn't a very inexpensive nice zoo in LA and for some reason it hasn't happened until now. When we first arrived it was only us (me and my boys), Amber and Burl, and Georgia, Henry and Agatha. Alestair was really excited to see his friends. We couldn't get a good shot of all three of them. This was the closest. Alestair decided he would try and pick up Burl who is twice is size. He was grunting and groaning-it was pretty funny.

We saw the tigers that were just recently put in together in hopes that they would be able to mate. Which they did in front of us so Yay! for the zoo!

They have tons of places for the kids to climb on rocks and other things that look like what the animals make as their homes or toys. Alestair and Burl were big fans of the Meerkat burrow.

Emmett had a face off with a meerkat. It was pretty amusing. He was far more excited to see them than they were to see him and Agatha.





 



Alestair was also extremely excited to see an Anteater. Aunt Wendy gave him the "A Book" and it has an anteater and since then he has wanted to see one for real.

There was this really manly peacock that had his feathers up the entire day! He was fantastic! Alestair learned not to touch them when one boy did and the poor peacock tried to peck him.

Of course we could not miss the potomuses (or hicamisspotamusses). They have always been my fave but are now growing on Alestair :)!!!

We saw this giraffe while they were trying to move the girls and boys from one side of the pen to the other. On the other side was a mama and two babies. This guy though made the most amazing noise! I have never heard them make a noise before.

We also saw the asian male elephants (to the right) and the african male elephant (below). The african elephant has the biggest tusk I have ever seen on an elephant! It was amazing. He also had some very very long eyelashes that Candace wanted.

We found Becky and Audrey, Candace, Kristie and Joel and Heather and Mya just before lunch time when we stopped for a potty break. It was about here that I wanted to see elephants and hippos and wasn't really into looking for some big cats so Georgia and Amber (and munchkins) decided to go see the lions and then meet up with us for lunch. At lunch it started to rain...really rain. So Georgia and Amber decided to take off. The rest of us went to find somewhere to eat...that had cover. This was quite a task! You would think a zoo in Seattle had places like that mapped out but they really didn't. Below you see the Gals (plus Kristie) who stayed for lunch.



Mindy, Heather, Kristie, Candace, Becky



After lunch Heather and Candace had to take off so Becky and I took our kids on a real NW adventure! It was POURING by now. We were DRENCHED but we still saw a ton of stuff and found some really awesome quite parts of the zoo. To the left you see the Taiper. He/She was really cute. I made friend with him/her.

Becky and I took the kids to see the Northwest animals. This is the otters. There were fish on the other side with a big brown bear. From what the zoo personal said the fish were there for the bear's enrichment but he didn't really care to try and catch them. He did come down and look at them Alestair was really in love with the "pish" by this point and about had a heart attack thinking the bear was going to eat "his pish". He started yelling "MY PISHES OH NO OH NO MY PISHES!" Audrey was consumed with the diving otters. She was in love. It was hard to pull her away. after we came out we saw that the white artic foxes were there too! One tried to follow Audrey but she didn't notice and my picture didn't turn out.

From there we went to see the Austrailian animals. The Emus to the left weren't a big hit and you could hardly see the wallaby (to the right). The wallaby was very well hidden. Below you see the Kookaburra. Which is pretty cool.

From there we went back to the penguins where the boys and I started. Becky and I were drenched through our coats by now and Audrey and Alestair were wet up their pants. Emmett was the only one dry. Yet it was a very very fun day!

Becky and I just before leaving.



Me and my boys!

And so our day ended. We went home.