Zebras! FIVE Zebras!

Yes, still catching up on the blog... I've made it to Memorial Day weekend, so I'm not THAT far behind :)

We'll start with the Saturday before Memorial Day, ok? Decided that since the weather was amazingly great (not windy!), we should have a picnic at the zoo. A group of pals joined us for lunch on the lawn. We met up with Shawn, Amelia, Liam, and Greta (Amelia's in my book club); Jennifer and Brett (Jennifer is also in my book club - and they've been around this blog many times); and Kristin and Justin (Kristin's in my book club too, plus they're our neighbors). Here we are chowing under the huge cottonwood trees:
(And I need to credit Jennifer and Brett for a few of these photos - I stole some from their camera since they're MUCH better photographers than Matt and I are...)

Just off the edge of the lawn is a stage with a little lake around it. They do concerts at the zoo (which is amazing to hear the animals singing along with the symphony!) and the fish/ducks in the lake are well fed during normal and concert hours. Carter LOVED feeding the fish and ducks and I'm actually surprised we were able to even see other exhibits that day. He's STILL talking about the fish ("Fish, swimming!")...
Shawn and Liam also feeding the fish:
And that's Greta on the left:
From there we took off to see the exhibits. Our favorite, the polar bears (they were sleeping - not playing, not swimming, not pacing, not doing anything cool...):
Family shot in front of the polar bear exhibit (and that's Kristin and Justin to our left):
The tigers (one behind me on the left):
The train AND the peacock (which was making all sorts of racket) - VERY cool!
The elephant exhibit (and that's Amelia, Shawn, Liam and Greta behind us):
One of the new zoo babies in Albuquerque - Daisy, the elephant:
And now, the best part of all. The zebras. FIVE zebras! They were eating grass! It was SOOOOO exciting! Can you believe it?! FIVE zebras! I think we stayed here for about 30 minutes and Carter was in zebra heaven!
And for fun, three short videos of Carter imitating the zebras (basically you just need to purse your lips together and blow):











Since we left the zoo about a month ago, Carter has been talking about the FIVE zebras pretty much every single day! Not just one zebra, folks, FIVE! Eating grass!

Hope you get the opportunity to see FIVE zebras too!
~kerrie