Portland Zoo

I think Whitney and Rachel are my only two kids who have been to a zoo and they were too little to remember, so we decided a trip to the zoo was in order.  The zoo was a little crazy but it could have been much worse.  We ran into a couple of summer groups while we were there.  I liked that because then we could learn more about the animals from the workers.

Compared to some birds, we have apparently very short wingspans.  So I guess flying is out.

There were some little animal statues close to the beginning and everyone picked one.  Adam loved sitting on the hippo. 

The bats were our first animal and they are so ugly to be almost cute. Is that even possible?  Whitney said these were her favorite animal and she now wants one for a pet.

I enjoy watching all kinds of monkeys.  This one apparently likes watching all kinds of humans.  We watched them feed the monkeys here.  One had a baby that clung to its tummy.  So that was cute.

These old tortoises were interesting.  The big one was mean, kept following the smaller one and the smaller one kept trying to get away.

Hard to tell from the picture but the kids were watching the penguins.  I love penguins so we stayed here for awhile watching them waddle around and jumping in the water.

So cute.

We watched the elephant show.  There were a ton of people so I did not get the best pictures.  The elephant would do little tricks to earn apples.  He was very good at splashing the water really hard.

This giraffe was standing when we got to the exhibit but we watched it sit down.  It was fun to watch it try to sit since giraffes have such skinny legs.  So it went slowly but it did sit.  Kind of cool.

And here we are in the jeep pretending to be on a safari.  We saw lots of other animals too - lions and a black bear and sea creatures.  They were all awesome.

The Portland Zoo was fun.  We were there for like six hours and still missed a couple of things.  I am glad my kids were able to learn some more about these amazing animals.