Lions and Tigers and Bears…OH My!

First the disclaimer…I am not a zoo person.  Wandering around a zoo, looking at caged animals, or not looking at caged animals, depending on how hot or cold or the feeding schedule or myriads of other reasons the animals hide from the huddled masses, is not as high on my list of “how I spent my summer vacation”.  That being said…the St. Louis Zoo is FREE…and you never turn down free.  So off we go to the zoo.  We had just a little trouble, Maggie (our wonderful GPS) took us on a side trip, she could not find the Zoo.  She found a lovely park, a cemetery, and lots of side streets but no zoo,(I’m sure it was not user error), but when an alternative site was typed in she led us there with no problemo.  Bernerd was REALLY excited…Jessica on the other hand was just humoring us at this point! Luckily Arlon consented to posing for me.  This is his “I am so fascinated by all this” pose

Jessica…still humoring me, and not to convincingly.  Even the shark wanted to bite her head off.

Hmmmm so these are Elephants…interesting. Keep in mind…its free!

Hmmm… so this is a monkey, nope its an orangutan…got ya!

Great minds think alike!

Yep their in there!!!

This is the one that Jessica actually enjoyed…I just think she liked saying it!The hippo exhibit was the only one that really made me a little sad… they had two (hippos not exhibits)and they were HUGE… They swam in a tight circle (because that's all the room they had) the entire time we watched them.  They just seemed really caged to me. Bernerd was glad he was on the outside looking in though…they were really big!

She's got the whole Zebra in her hand…come on sing along!

Jessica practicing her kissing skills! 

It is a nice zoo though.  I bet its beautiful in the summer, lots of trees and grass and the bulbs were starting to come up all over, I would probably visit again, did I mention…its FREE!