Kenley's 1st trip to the zoo

I had been wanting to take Kenley to the zoo for awhile now but we never really had (or made) the time, but Sunday was the day ;o)

We tried to tell her where we were going and she would repeat it to us, "Zooo."

Here we are headed in...

We checked out the wallabies first and she seemed to like them. She watched them hop around.

We saw some monkeys and some birds which we liked but the next item was the otter and he was a BIG HIT! We found out his name was Ozzie when one of the zoo staff stopped by and got him to come out of the water. He was just swimming back and forth and if he would stop, Kenley would just say "Again!" like he would listen to her ;o)

After the otter we found the sea lion. We were excited because we were going to get to watch them feed the sea lion shortly after we arrived. Kenley liked the sea lion as long as it was in the water but as the feeding got closer and the sea lion got excited and started to BARK, we weren't so sure.

As you can see in this short clip, she isn't quite sure about it...


However when the feeding started (and the "show" with the toys and tricks), she did a bit better. She would go up to the glass and watch for a minute until the sea lion jumped out and then she would walk away just saying "NOPE!" She didn't see as frightened as she may have sounded at first in the video. She must have gone back and forth a dozen times. Then we decided it was time to move on and see the big cats... but not before stopping to smell the pretty flowers.

She liked the big cats but paid no interest to the sun bear. The snow leopard seemed to like her too. It would prowl up and down following her and even jumped on the wall a few times.

We explored the rest of the zoo and tried the carousel. We weren't fond of it. I think it was too loud and the animals moved too fast (even though we were sitting on the bench.) She did like the koi  pond and we even got to feed them.  She also tried to pet the cockroach they had out in the Zoo lab. That thing was HUGE! (Yes I touched it but it was weird.) Here are some pics of us exploring and the carousel.

By far one of our favorite things was at the end of the day. We sat to watch the bobcat and he prowled about coming up to the fence for a closeup view.

All in all a wonderful trip and I'm looking forward to taking her again.. it's a small zoo but nice and very kid friendly for her age. We let her walk most of the time and Sunday morning it wasn't crowded at all. We got back to the car and had planned on some McDonald's for a lunch time treat but within minutes this is what we saw...

She was plain tuckered out. It wasn't even close to her normal 2pm naptime. She took a nice cat nap on the way home and the roused back up for lunch and some play before our real nap. I told Clay she just needed some mental time to process all the great stuff she had seen.  What a great 1st trip to the ZOOOOO!