Trip to the Zoo

Recently Ady has shown a big interest in animals. Whenever she see's a cat, dog, fish or even a toad she squeals and points at it. So we decided to go to the zoo while Grandma and Grandpa Van Tassell were here. Ady had a blast. She loved finding the animals and pointing at them. She even tried to bark at the african dogs, if you didn't know dogs are her favorite animal. She was quite bored by the reptiles who just laid there and the sleeping lions. But the elephants, giraffes, monkeys, orangutans, tiger, zebra, cheetahs, chimpanzees, hippos, and especially the petting zoo was almost more fun than this girl could handle. Sorry this is another really long blog, I just couldn't decide which photo you didn't want to see. Knowing that you'd probably feel deprived if you didn't get to see how much fun Adyson was, I decided to give you the full unabridged version.



As you can see here Ady loved finding the animals and pointing at them to make sure that we found them also. She would go running up the path to when she spotted an animal and with the giraffes she even made an attempt to climb the fence to get a closer look.




The petting zoo was quite possibly Ady's favorite part of the zoo. She loved petting the Llama, the goats, the pigs, the sheep and looking at all the other animals like the Japanese Koi. She wasn't sure about the goats at first but it didn't take long and she was petting, climbing, poking, pulling ears and we had to take her out because we were feeling sorry for the goats.


We managed to be at the Hippo exhibit while they were feeding the hippos and Ady got quite the surprise. An apple landed right next to the glass where she had attached her face and all of the sudden she had a very close look at the inside of a hippopotamus' mouth. After jumping backwards she quickly got over her surprise and went right back to her spot. She loved it but I feel a little bit sorry for whoever has to clean all of those hand and face prints of hers off of the glass.




Here are a few more images of us at the Zoo. Notice how Ady is smashing her face against the glass at the Chimpanzee exhibit. Due to Ady trying to climb into giraffe exhibits and getting so excited when she would find another animal that she would take off running she ended up spending quite a bit of the day on my shoulders. Yes, that is a picture of Ady dancing. She would get so excited that she'd literally break out dancing(which basically consists of waving her arms up and down while turning in a circle and making weird squealing noises). And the final pic is when the Cheetah walked away from the window and ady started balling. She cried until it came back a couple of minutes later.