A Day at the Zoo

My sister and I decided to rock the Best Aunts title and took Ivy and Elliett to the zoo last week. We did all the things that are zoo musts: ride the train, get face painted, eat snow cones, take a ride (or two) on the carousel, check out the animals, and complain at the end of the day about the heat and sore feet.






























We saw an 8-day old baby giraffe, rhinos, snakes, turtles, snow leopards, bears, zebras, spiders, and my personal favorite, elephants. Well, we actually only saw one elephant, as the pregnant female we were told was going to give birth that day!



















Maybe I'm projecting a bit too much, but some of the animals seemed so sad. It somehow seemed wrong for them to be in cages for all us humans to gawk and stare at. Imagine if there was a human zoo and the animals all got to come and see us in our "natural" habitats while their kids tapped the glass and waited for us to do something cool.