With this unseasonably cool late July weather, Brandon and I decided to take Elizabeth back to the Tulsa Zoo!! We took her last year and a great time, but now that she is older she really enjoyed all of the animals and can now tell us what they are!! So, here is our fun filled journey!!
This first picture was in an indoor rainforest. There were little monkeys climbing around and catfish as big as Elizabeth!! She kept asking "what are those, look at those BIIIIG Fish!!!!"
Ahh the penguins...... The last time we went to the zoo they had a few penguins swimming around, but not much more, well, this time, they had a zoo staff member telling about the penguins, elizabeth wanted to go "up there daddy" She wanted to go up over the glass and get in the water with the penguins!! The exhibit was really neat!!
The kids zoo was open this time, it was closed last year for renovation. Elizabeth had to go in and pet all the animals. There were goats, sheep, and rabbits. You couldn't get the rabbits out of the cage and she wanted to hold it so bad, last year we saved a rabbit from Brandon's mom's garden from a snake, and since then she loves bunnies!! As they were roaming around, a goat decided it needed to relieve himself in front of elizabeth (#2 to be exact) Well, Elizabeth hasn't seen a goat actually go, she has seen Grammas goat's poop on the ground, but not the actual process, so when he was finished, she was quite fascinated with the poo, and didn't know what to do, there were a couple of other kids that were watching her examine the poo and said to their dad "She doesn't know its poop" then Brandon and the other dad had a laugh about it!! Brandon had a private conversation about the importance of not stepping in nor picking up goat poop.
The first thing Elizabeth saw was the train that takes you around the zoo, " we gotta catch that train!!!!" After a day of lots of animals, we had tokens that we didn't use last year to ride the train, so here are Elizabeth and Brandon before the train took off. Elizabeth said " I'm RRRREADY!!!!!" She loved the ride and held on tight!!! She would say, "Daddy, Mama, we're ridin the train!!!! Too cute....
Last but not least... the merry-go-round, Brandon took her on the first run, she wanted to ride on the giraffe, well they were on it and the nice merry-go-round man came up to Brandon and Elizabeth and told them that the giraffe is the only one that doesn't go up and down, so a switch was in deed in order... she ended up picking the reindeer, well that didn't suit her either, so she ended up picking the jaguar!!!! She loves going round and round!! I usually leave the merry go round to Brandon, as in my older years....:) I have developed some motion sickness, well, after they road, she told Brandon , "i want to ride with mama" so, i picked a spot stuck to it and around and around we went (only mild dizziness for mama) This time she rode the zebra!!
We left around 5:30, she napped for about 20 minutes on the way there, so she was exhausted on the way home!!! She finally fell asleep in siloam springs,,,,,,we stopped for some charlies chicken and a quick bath and she was out.. she actually asked to take a bath!!!
We had a great time and enjoy her so much!! She is such a good little girl, she said today, "i'm not a baby anymore, I'm a big girl!" Oh my, are we in trouble!!!!!!