Zoo Fun!!!

So today was Military appreciation day at the Hoagle Zoo. All Military and there families get in for free. A pretty sweet deal if you ask me!! It was well worth it. We had a blast . We spent about 3 hrs. there in almost 100 degree weather., but it was well worth it. We were ready to get home in the end!

This was our first stop:

This rare white alligator looked so fake. He was sleeping of course!Our next stop was the elephants. I love elephants! I have a funny story to tell about my Dad and the elephant at the Hoagle Zoo. So a long time ago, I can't remember how many years it's been but we had gone for a family activity. Well we were looking at the elephants, and the next thing we know we see my Dad trying to touch the elephant with his hat. Well wouldn't you know it the Elephant grabs my Dad's hat with it's trunk and starts to eat it. The elephant tried to swallow, but it started to choke on it! By this time my Dad is walking away from the scene, and the rest of us are kind of walking away from him. It's like we don't know this Man, how embarrassing! We thought that we were going to read about it the next day in the paper: Elephant chokes to death on some man's bright fluorescent pink hat. Yes he liked bright colors! I wouldn't call it embarrassing anymore. My Dad had lot's of fun, he was very adventurous, and I mean how many times do you get to see and elephant eat a hat? Thanks Dad for the good memory!

So here are some pictures of the Elephants that we saw:

Lucky for you, you missed the elephant take a bathroom break! Very interesting for all the kids to see. They were all grossed out! He is a cute elephant though! I took this picture right before his little break, and afterwards he started to sway back and forth. He really was cute!

Matt and the girls and the elephants.

The elephant on the right is pregnant. She is due sometime next year. Isn't that so amazing???

This little guy looked so board. He was just sitting there tapping his arm. It was so cute, and funny! Poor thing, boredom is no fun.

Zebras aren't they so beautiful???

Matt and the girls with the beautiful zebras behind them. So cute! Oh McKenzie said the Zebra was her favorite animal at the zoo.

I'm so glad I'm not a penquin!

From a distance I thought this little guy was dead, but when I got up closer I realized that he was just relaxing in the sun and water

This is a sloth. Couldn't tell could you? =)

And wait for it:

Benicula!!!!! The Vampire Rabbit!!!!

Now on to my favorite part of the zoo. The gorillas. I love gorillas!

Here was a couple of them outside in the trees:

We thought it would be fun to do this little activity:

After this little activity we went inside the gorilla building. This is what was waiting for us:

This is Eli. He is just so darn CUTE!!

I had to get a video of him. He was being difficult, but it was worth it for me, so I could get a good picture of his face to last forever!

So here he is:

After we saw the gorillas and Eli, we made our way towards the snakes, spiders, reptiles building. I didn't take any pictures of them, because well the snakes and spiders give me the heebie jeebies! McKenzie was totally into them! She did say they were yucky! Whatever that means. She wasn't scared of them one bit! Anyways moving along to end the day at the zoo we went on a little train ride to see more animals. When I say little it was little. Like 2-3 minutes long. It cost $4 to go on it. It was lame! The girls liked it though. They thought it was cool to ride a train. Matt said the train ride at Lagoon was better than this. I would have to agree with him. At least on that one you got to see some decent big animals, and not just dinky pigeons! So here are some pictures of the train ride of us:

And our big finish for the day was the Merry go round which the girls absolutely loved! McKenzie started to cry when Matt took her off of her Tiger. Poor thing. Here are pictures of the Merry go round:

They were beat and ready to go home! Especially Madisynn, who fell asleep as soon as the car started. It was fun to be able to see the zoo again. I would love to go again when we had more time so the girls could do discovery land. Well I guess it's their fault in a way because they chose the train ride, and merry go round over playing in discovery land! Oh well they still had fun no matter what. Now I finally get to post this yea. I'm going crazy! =)