Zoo Trip Numero Uno

Last Sunday we ventured to the Woodland Park Zoo with Jess's sister and her family, Danielle, Rob, Cameron, and Kendra.  We had such a fun time seeing all the animals and spending time together.  This is more like a scrapbook than a real blog post.  I am so addicted to taking pictures, I wanted to share some of what we captured on our outing.

I have no idea what this bird is, but it was colorful, beautiful, and turned out pretty neat.

The wonderful cousins: Cam, Kendra, and Eli.

There was someone with us who could actually take a family picture of us.  These are pretty rare as I am usually the one behind the lens. 

The new meerkat exhibit.  I think they were posing for me.

Another shot of the cousins.  This time on the Gila Monster statue.

We had the best luck and most interesting time with the bears.  Once we ventured into their covered viewing area, it was feeding time.  Eli happened to be right in front of the bear while he stuffed himself on cantaloupe, carrots and other large fruits and vegetables.  Eli had the best view in the house! 

Once we got to the Kookaburra, Danielle and I started signing the Kookaburra song of course.  Eli doesn't particularly care for Mom to sing and since he was on my shoulder during this bit of our trip, he quickly took care of the situation.  He definitely knows how to solve problems.  

We also decided we would get a seed stick and feed the birds.  Honestly, I didn't think he would be very keen on this idea, however, he loved it.  When the first little bird landed on his stick, he looked like this:

 ...then was quite interested in this flying, feathered friend.  

Nothing screams cousins and zoo than a little rodeo riding on the snow leopard statue.

I loved these little guys and wanted to bring one home as a pet.  Until they started "talking."  OH MY GOSH!  Talk about noisy and LOUD little things.  You may stay at the zoo.  Thank you very much.

Eli is enamored with his cousin Kendra.  She could say "jump!" and he would ask "how high?"  It was fun watching them all interact this weekend.  Here she's taking him to see the pygmy donkeys.

Being in the petting zoo part with the farm animals, Eli had to "drive" the tractor.  Cam and Kendra were great and jumped up there with him.

When our trip was over, it didn't take long before Eli was sawing logs in the backseat.  His last sentence before zonking out was so slow and drawn out...one word at a time.  LOL  He was like this all the way home....and then some.