At the Zoo

Brandon and I wanted to take the kids to the

zoo for a long time now but could never 

find a Friday he was off while the kids 

were off track.  So there happened to be

a free day while the kids were off track and

so my sister Kami and her daughter, the kids

and I went to the Hogle Zoo. 

They were doing major construction

and so a ton of stuff was closed off. 

We started off with some monkeys and

Owen was very nervous.  Then we went

to see the gorillas and that made Owen

tense up and cry.  He wouldn't even

stand by the statue with the girls Same with 

the Elephants. But after holding Owen for

a bit and telling him what the Elephant

was doing he calmed down and was

a little less scared. 

We got to the seals and he was fascinated with them.

We watched them play together for a while. 

It was the first thing he was not afraid of. 

The polar bear was fun to watch.  He would swim

and flip over and swim on his back and start over 

again.  He did that a good 20 or more times. 

I was surprised after seeing the tigers that Owen would sit on the

Tiger statue with the girls.  But I guess he was not afraid of

tigers because he kept calling them "Big Kitty Cat"!

We were lucky enough to see a wolf which

really looks like a dog and harmless. So cute! 

We played in the shop for a bit and the kids

really wanted a stuffed animal.  I told them no

but then had Kami help me be sneak and buy them so

 I could surprise them for Christmas.