Fun at The Zoo!

If you follow my Facebook updates, you may have seen that Steve and I had been planning on taking Brett to the zoo, but were bummed that the weather wasn't going to be good on his birthday. Well, we'd both taken the day off so we decided to brave it anyway... the only other place we had "thought" to check out was the Children's Museum, but since he's not quite walking yet, I thought he'd be a little young to really experience it right now (but hopefully this summer!).

Even though we had to bundle up to see everything, it didn't rain all day and NO ONE was there so we had the whole zoo to ourselves. Plus, since it was a little chillier, the animals were really active and we got to see almost all of them!


(Ugh, I forgot how blogger posts pics opposite of how you upload them, so a lot of these are our day "in reverse")...

The very best animal we saw all day came at the very end. We happened upon the walrus, and no one was playing with him, so he was looking for a friend. We got him all to ourselves. Brett thought this was waaayyy cool...

Checking out the sea lions with daddy...

Still with daddy, checking out the roosters...

Some sort of buffalo at the petting zoo area..

The rhinos. Namely their butts. It's funny how many animal behinds we got in our pictures.

This is about the closest I've ever been to the lions. Yes, I was a bit reluctant holding my innocent offspring this close to a deadly predator...

The giraffes were way cool. We got to see them up close.... couldn't get a great shot of Brett, so...

....this pic is Steve taking it from another angle, still looking at the giraffes (notice the lone giraffe butt in the background!)

Dolphins! Suellen had a cute pic of Parker and Alicia looking at the dolphins when they went to the zoo last week. I tried, but couldn't quite capture it.

We have tons more, but I'll just post these for now. Oh, and we caught some "Wild America" pics.... still debating on whether to post them or not. Let's just say we caught some tortises being "bad" in the desert exhibit... we should tell the zookeeper that they need to be aware that baby tortises may be on the way....