Zoo Trip 10/3

We took the kids to the Columbia Zoo on Saturday and had a great time!! They were so excited (we had to make a picture to count down the days until we went). The weather was absolutely beautiful and we packed a picnic lunch. Grandma and Grandpa came with us too (I guess you just can't pass up a good zoo trip no matter how old you are!!) Of course Harper looked forward to the elephants and Chloe was excited about the giraffe's. When we got there, there was a zoo keeper holding a baby chinchilla. It was so soft!! It had some big ears and kind of looked like a huge squirrel, but it had whiskers like a bunny and its nose twitched like one too - interesting animal. Harper pet it. The girls wouldn't! Funny story: There were these two enormous turtles that were mating. Well the kind of growl when doing this. So we were standing there watching this big turtle kind of standing behind the other turtle with its front "paws" on the shell of it. The girls thought it was funny what the turtle was "saying" (the growling noise). Yesterday, Carly was telling me all about that turtle and this was her take on the situation: "Mom, the big turtle was eating on the other turtle and it was really yummy so he kept saying MMMMMMM!!" It was hysterical! Anyways, here are the pics!

Grandpa helping the girls feed the big orange fish!
Riding the elephant

The cute baby giraffe!

Harper feeding the giraffe - Chloe did once, but kind of got grossed out I think. Harper laughed so hard the whole time - he loved it! Carly wouldn't get too close!

The girls riding the horses - Bear and Blondie. They were so proud of themselves riding the real horse all by themselves.

They also got to ride the carousel. They had a train ride too, but I just realized that I didn't download the pic, so you will just have to use your imagination on that one!!

Can you tell Harper had fun??

Matt and I were so excited to take Finley to her first zoo trip, and as you can see, we didn't take a single picture of her!!!!!!! Can you believe the slack parenting on this end!! Oh well, there will be many more zoo trips - maybe will document one she actually sees and doesn't sleep through the whole thing!