I can’t tell you how long it has been since I’ve been to the zoo. And I can’t tell you have long it’s been since I’ve been to the zoo in 100 degree weather! I was actually pretty concerned that since it was so hot, most of the animals wouldn’t be out and about but I was surprised. Most of them were out so we could see them. This was my favorite:

Isn’t he the most precious thing? I really wanted to take him home! For some reason my husband wouldn’t let me. :-/ He’s so unreasonable sometimes!

Here’s one of the baby’s family. They allowed feeding of the giraffes, so that’s how I got so close. It was pretty cool.

Well now that I have gotten distracted with my baby giraffe, I need to start at the beginning. This was the first stop – the elephants. I think he was playing ‘Peek-a-boo’ with me.

Next was the giraffes but I already showed you those. So onto the most frightening thing I saw all day:

Needless to say, I didn’t hang around there very long!

Okay, so I wanted my picture with the llama, because it always reminds me of this song. The song makes no sense whatsoever but it cracks me up every time I hear it. My husband thinks I’m crazy. So here’s the picture I got of the llama and though, ‘Great! The Llama and I will have a great picture together!’

Well, he apparently had other ideas:

Well by this time we finally caught up with the rest of the family (the in-laws and six nieces!) so the day got a little more interesting, as you can imagine with six girls running around. For their privacy sake, I’m not going to put their pictures up here expect this one since it’s their backs. It’s just the cutest picture ever. Here are two of the younger ones (cousins) showing my husband where they are going next on the map. Yes, neither one of them can read but good thing there are pictures on there.

So after this, I’m carrying the youngest niece which makes it hotter than 100 degrees. And my hubby has the camera. You have to get a picture of the Flamingos!

My niece I was holding liked the monkeys. She could do their ‘sound’ quite well for someone who didn’t say much. It was cute. These monkeys liked to show off running up and down those ropes. It was entertaining!

And what trip wouldn’t be complete without a visit to the Lion’s Den??

Hope you enjoyed our trip to the zoo!

* All pictures have been taken by me or my husband and cannot be used without permission.