Lazy Day at the Zoo

And here's my final post for the night! After this, I think I'm completely caught up on the Greenie news and will hopefully have more fun to share this month! I have several trips lined up (including an outing to San Francisco!) and before long we'll be in the Bahamas! Even got Carter's passport ordered so he can join us!

But I digress while dreaming of lounging on the beach...

Today our neighbors Kristin and Justin joined us for a lazy day at the zoo. We all had a nice picnic in the shade of the cottonwoods and then spent some time checking out the animals. Good thing about being a zoo member, we don't have to rush, nor do we have to try to see everything, since we can come back at any time during the year.

The weather was beautiful (upper 80's), but we didn't have much of a breeze to keep us cool. The animals agreed that it was pretty warm and half of the furry folks were napping as we went by:
The sea life, however, was QUITE active. We took a quick rest and watched the seals and sea lions swim by us. Carter was loving it and kept pointing and ooh'ing and aah'ing:
But up top, we were back to some slackin', nappin' animal life:
While walking over to the Africa exhibits, we passed a zoo keeper holding a 4-month-old monkey. Can you saw "AWWWWW?!"
One of Carter's favorites (or as we THINK is one of his faves) is the giraffe. Last time we were at the zoo, we got up close and personal with the giraffe. Today we had a very similar experience. This guy (or maybe it was a gal...I didn't check) stood in front of us just like a statue:
For perspective, here's Matt pointing up at him/her:
We then traveled over to the last exhibit for the day...the elephants. Carter had a hard time seeing through the fence from his stroller, but when he finally caught sight of the big girl, he was excited!
We then took off, since it was beyond Carter's nap time. And, well, we have a really bad habit of screwing up his routine on the weekend and then trying to re-adjust on Mondays and Tuesdays. So we packed up our picnic gear and all of the Greenies took a much needed nap.

Here's thanking you for reading all of my trivial posts and here's wishing you a wonderful August!
~kerrie