The Zoo

This past weekend since we were home and not at a football game, we took Avery and Carter to the zoo in Columbia.  See previous trips when she was one and when she was two.

The statues were a surprise hit this time around and she had to have her picture taken with all of them.

My two girls taking a gander at the elephants.  Between some of the educational cartoons and what she learns at school, she was shouting animal facts at us all morning long.

"Elephants are from Africa."

Carter was less interested in the animals and more interested in the large amounts of people walking by.

You get to get pretty close to the kangaroos.

Avery got to touch and help some stranger feed a giraffe.

And touch one of these furry things.  A lalalam?  Llalma?  Lllama?  Alapaca?  Yeah...furry thing.

And to pretend milk a pretend cow.  She was sure to make sure Laura knew that it was just pretend.

She got to hand feed some aggressive goats.

There was a carousel that we got to take a spin on.

Avery chose a tiger as her animal.

Carter was not so excited about the carousel as Avery, but he did a great job going along for the day.

Avery was braver than Mommy and touched this snake.

Working on her modeling pose with one of the monkey statues.

The last thing we did was the aquarium and it was her favorite part by far.  It may have been the air conditioning or it may have been the fish.

One of her shows that she watches is "Octonauts" and they learn all about underwater sea creatures so she had a great time telling us stories about some of the animals that she recognized.  In this picture she is excitedly telling us a story about this kind of fish that has some kind of special talent.

(Avery reminded me that this is a tiger fish that stings you if you touch its spikes)

Telling us all about the penguins.