a trip to the zoo

last week, b and i had the day off and we randomly decided to use our free passes that b won in a dental convention raffle. sweet! we walked there (it's reallllly close to where we live) and checked out everything. it was really empty because of the day and time. perfect! we walked around, saw all the animals, and made ourselves sick with cotton candy, nachos, and giant pretzels. perfect day.





















with the crazy bird. it made us nervous because it was large and right at eye level. yikes.


just letting out the superhero within

albino alligator!

rescued polar bear. so sweet and playful!

gorilla friend.

he stayed on the rhino for 8 seconds. i was impressed...

we stopped and watched the giraffes in their feeding station for a while. these animals are incredible. did you know they only sleep for 20 minutes at night and their hearts weigh like 20 lbs? with the long neck, you need a strong pump getting the blood up to the brain. oh, and they only have as many vertebrae as humans? i did not know these facts and was mesmerized when the docent was teaching me all these amazing facts. b was probably embarrassed.


sweet elephants loving each other. i love that we have so many different creatures on our planet.