Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Hogle Zoo
Today we went to the zoo-Lili's first time. Lili loved it. It was colder than I expected but good thing we went with Dave & Holly because Holly had extra stuff or I would have froze even more. We went at the kids pace looking at all the different animals. We were only there for about 2 hours because 1/3 of the zoo exhibits are under construction. Lili found this little animal that looks like a rabbit and a wort-hog that kept coming to see her, she loved it. It was at her level and she kept running from one end of the exhibit to the other because this animal followed her for a bit. We found a bald eagle, which is absolutely massive. I've never seen one so close before, Gaby will be sad she missed it, Marky Karky too. We were at the gorilla exhibit a long time, which made us warm up. A worker was putting food in the one gorilla 'home', then let the gorilla back in. It was enormous! He ate his food then came over to us, Isabel got down and backed up, and the gorilla looked right at Addie, she didn't flinch either. The orangutans were playing with a bed sheet and Lili liked them the best. I think because the little one was wresting with the older one and that is totally Lili. She loves wrestling Papi and Isabel. We had a nice time at the zoo even though we were popsicles most of the time!