A Day at the Zoo

Last Wednesday, since it was Spring Break, we headed to the zoo. We met Nathan’s brother and family there as well as a few of our friends. The day started out a little chilly, but warmed up to be perfect. Layton was super happy to have others there that were just his size.

Dallin’s favorite places in the whole zoo are the snake houses. Isn’t this snake’s camouflage pretty impressive. You could easily walk right up on this snake in the wild and not see it. That terrifies me. I HATE SNAKES.

Mandy loves all of her little friends. I think I’ve mentioned it before that she calls them “her kids”. The next day after our zoo trip, she saw some of the moms that had gone with us and asked them, “Where are all my brothers and sisters?” I thought that was cute.

Nathan actually took a half day off of work to come with us too. It was really nice having him there. As you can see, Layton loved having him there too.

Kids are so goofy. After walking through the jaguar exhibit, which is decorated to look like the ruins of an ancient civilization, the kids wanted to pose as statues. Mandy was really into eating her gold fish at that moment so she couldn’t be bothered with actually posing.

We were very excited to see the new Asian exhibit. There are beautiful ponds and gardens.

The ponds are full of these huge brightly colored Koi.

The Asia area is also home to a Komodo Dragon. Dallin was so excited about getting to see a real DRAGON. He thought it was pretty awesome.

We also visited the lorikeets. You can actually walk into their aviary and feed them. Dallin and Mandy were too scared to actually feed them but they were mesmerized by everyone else doing it.

It was a wonderful day and we were SO glad that we got there early. As we were leaving just after 12:00, the lines outside the zoo to get in were CRAZY. I guess the saying that the early bird gets the worm really was true in this case!