Animals! Rides! A Bit of Scary!

We got up to the zoo about 2 pm, which gave us about three hours to see the animals before they closed at 5. Trust me, this is plenty of time when you're going at whirlwind 5-year-old pace. And the 2-year-old would probably have been happy with one hour, if it hadn't been for the water park.

First, the animals:

These giraffes couldn't get enough of each other. They didn't stop rubbing necks the whole time we were watching them. Poor kids, can't get any privacy in the zoo.

Don't miss the baby in the mommy's left arm.





If you think alligators are creepy, you ain't seen nothing 'til you've seen an albino one.

This young giraffe . . .


. . . is standing right behind the kids and could have swallowed their heads, if it wasn't for that fence and maybe a giraffe's normal diet not consisting of human children. But, man, are giraffes huge!

The kids didn't want to stand still for pictures, mostly Penny didn't. So they're not great.




This is an elephant transport case, probably (hopefully) not being used (or at least thoroughly washed in between uses). But for my kids, it was a dancing box. I hope this video will load . . .

Blogger has decided to stop letting me upload photos, so I'll try the rest later. The water park sequence. The (free! after price of admission!) rides after dark.