A Day at the Zoo

Yesterday the weather was excellent, and we decided to take the girls to the zoo. We don't have a local zoo, so we took them to Knoxville. This was Mia's first zoo trip, and she really enjoyed it. The times we've taken Claire to places like this before, she's always been very bored because she didn't have a friend with her. This time she really had fun, too. Here are a bunch of pictures in no particular order.

This beaver was standing near the entrance, and it took Mia a little while to get up the courage to touch his hand and then get her picture taken with him.






Mia really wanted to see the elephants, and asked for them numerous times until we finally got to that section. Here she was watching them.

As seems to always be our luck, the big cats were all napping...

The turtle statue was hot from the sun!



I think the giraffes were my favorite.





This one is blurry because it was taken through glass (with lots of little handprints) into a 2nd room where a baby chimp was playing with a piece of fabric, and swinging on this rope. He was SO cute!

His very human-like ears are so weird!

Not too bad for being taken through glass.

The gorilla was fascinating. He came right up by the glass and leaned on it.



Right at the end Mia saw this little tree and wanted to pose by it - she'll never get any complaints from me about that!



We were tired, but it was a fun day.