The Zoo

June 4th: To the zoo! As many of you know, we spend a great deal of time at the Columbus Zoo (and since it's a frequently asked question...we've only seen Jack Hanna once, but we hear he's there quite often!), but I have just never put pictures on here of our trips. With the zoo only 10 minutes from our house, we don't always take pictures when we go, but this time we were there with Uncle Brad and Aunt Brittani, so we took lots of pictures! Here is the group on the train ride (one of Drew's fave things at the zoo!)...Rich and I are in the seat ahead of them, as you can see no one wanted to ride with us! Ali made her way up to us after the train started, though, she was a little unsure of the whole thing!

Katie stopped to climb on the baby elephant...

So Drew had to pose with the baby elephant as well!

Here is our friend, the Sun Bear...these are just about the only 2 consistent animals we see...as well as the elephants which are always out and awake...the rest of the animals are hit or miss as to whether they are sleeping somewhere or out where they can be seen!

Here is Ali, desperately trying to get a better look at the sun bear!

Here are the tigers, enjoying a morning nap...it wasn't too hot out this day...most of the time in the summer the tigers are in their little cave, which is air-conditioned, the zookeeper says they don't like the heat. Over the winter we were there and we noticed one of the tigers staring up and in a "pouncing" crouch, and so we craned our heads to see above them and there was a zoo worker up there trying to string up the Christmas lights and the tiger was just waiting for him to fall! Drew thought that was very funny.

The lion was sleeping today as well! The last couple of months we've been here and the lion was pacing and roaring, his roar was so deep you could hear it all over the zoo. The zookeeper said that the poor lion was lonely and he could hear and maybe smell the female tigers and he was just going crazy in there. Crazy. Drew thought he was very scary when he would roar.

Ali decided riding in the stroller was just not for her, so I let her out and she ran straight to the warthog, and climbed right on...

Giddyup, Warthog!

Uncle Brad and Ali checking out the fish. Ali loves the aquarium, it's her favorite place at the zoo!

Katie loves the aquarium too. It has always been one of her favorite places...she still has her Fisher Price aquarium on her bedrail (it HAD to move from the crib with her, she would not sleep without it).

Ali, checking out the rocking chairs while Drew and Katie ride the carousel. Ali rode it last time, and she was not a fan, so we sat this one out!

Drew on the carousel...he loooooves the carousel.

Katie begged and begged to ride the carousel, but she doesn't like to ride the horse, so she and daddy always ride together on the bench. She loves to ride there.

Drew posing by Uncle Brad's favorite animal.