The Zoo!

At the beginning of the summer we had all of these vacation ideas and hopes of going somewhere fun! Well, on Tuesday August 24th I wondered where the summer went. It flew by and we still had not gone on a vacation! I had to start work again on Friday, so we really didn't have many options left. Andy decided to take Thursday off from work and we decided that we were going to the Milwaukee Zoo! Even though it isn't that far from home, it was still something fun to do and a mini vacation for us.

I hadn't been to a zoo in a long time, so I was pretty excited. I couldn't wait to see the African animal section....but I saw these guys first. I loved the flamingos!! I had never seen one before, and they were so cool looking. They looked more orange to me than pink.

Here is Bella enjoying her tour around the zoo.

Bella loved watching the giraffes. There was kind of a long line to get close to the giraffes, because they were letting people feed leaves to them.

And elephants!!! They were fun to watch. The elephants kept occupied by playing with tires.

At the zoo there is a dinosaur land area. It was pretty neat and Bella enjoyed seeing the big dinosaur statues.

This is the big guy that she's pointing at!

Another favorite animal of ours was the polar bear. There was an area to watch him swimming under the water - it was very up close! Monkeys aren't my favorite animal, but it was neat to see all of the different kinds of monkeys....there sure are some ugly ones!

Bella was so tired and ready to go home. She fell asleep as soon as we got in the car. I look forward to going to the zoo again when she is a little big older and can get really excited to see the animals.