First Zoo Trip of 2011

Okay so I know you are all probably sick of my Zoo posts last summer but these posts are more for my blog books than anything else! So Saturday April 16, 2011 James, Brynlee, and I went to the Zoo! It was a beautiful day and Brynlee LOVED the animals and spending the day outside with Daddy. We started our day off with a ride in the Jeep to the Zoo. Brynlee has begged us for the last 2 weeks to ride in the Jeep! So we did. First stop at the zoo is always the Flamingos because well they are right there!
Brynlee loves 'em so we don't mind.

After looking (unsuccessfully) for the wolves in their enclosure we let Brynlee run around and look at the big birds. (Eagles and vultures)

Then the Howler monkeys who almost always come over and say hi at the fence, they didn't this day though.

They had a Llama and an Alpaca out for visitors to pet. Brynlee pet them both with little fear. Mom was more unsure that the volunteers weren't great at handling them. lol

I LOVE our polar bears. We have one who is more yellowish in color and he seems fairly docile and is usually seen walking the rim of the upper pool. The other on the other hand is more white and VERY playful! I once went to the zoo and watched him take a broken hard plastic ball, fill it with water and toss it from the pool below to up towards the fence above to soak the squealing, giggling children above. He did this over and over for quite a while. The kids loved it! On this day though (I had seen him do this before) he would take that big plastic square up to the edge, look over,

Toss it over the wall,

and then look down at it. After a moment of looking he would come down the "water slide" get the block, haul it back to the top and throw it again.

I was planning on just sharing pictures of Brynlee and no pics of just animals but the Polar Bear had a story and these two snow leopards where just beautiful and posing for me so I had to share!

Brynlee LOVED spending the day with her Daddy

she spent a lot of the time looking over his head perched on his shoulders watching the animals.

Seals and sea lions. Which reminds me, just the other day the news reported one of our seals had a baby! It won't be on display till he can eat solid food but they do have a video of him at the zoo.

Brynlee pulled so hard at the fence she pulled Daddy's face into the net!

We ate a wonderful lunch!

Saw Giraffes

and Elephants

and Brynlee played on the playground before we saw the monkeys and headed home. Brynlee saw 2 boys go down the slide like this and decided it looked fun. She did this over and over and over.

It was nap time when we headed home so we let her sleep.

Sunday morning James and I went to the orientation at Zia Rifle and Gun club and are now card/key carrying members to the private gun range and can go any time we like night or day. Brynlee spent the morning with her Mamaw, Bop, Nanny, and Button! She looked so cute and had lots of fun!