Lions, Tigers and Bears...

Well, actually our zoo doesn't have Lions or Bears but we do have Tigers! Today we headed to the zoo and my animal lover had a great time as usual. Buying a zoo membership last year was a very wise investment. She wanted to see the cows of course..I should tell you that our Zoo is built on an old farm and the house is still there so they have cows, horses, sheep etc... She then wanted the elephants and tigers. Luckily all of them were really close to the fence so we had some good looks at them! The funniest thing is she literally YELLS out the animal sound to each animal as we are near them. I think she thinks it will get them to come even closer...it never works but it is entertaining. Of course since we are outside I can't really say "use your inside voice" so everyone gets to hear it!

It was pretty hot today so we went to the Rain Room. It has large fans on the ceiling and mists of water. Of course I had to practically drag her away. The promise of the snow leopard helped.

And here he is!! When we got to the exhibit they were shooting a commercial so he wasn't out yet as they were still "setting the stage" Annslee was not happy about this but we occupied ourselves with the Red Pandas. She isn't too thrilled with them as they don't look like "real" Pandas. I keep telling her we will go visit Lauren soon and see the real Giant Pandas in Atlanta. When they finally let the leopard out I knew we were in trouble. She was so excited to see him and after a pretty long time I started suggesting we move on. She was not into that idea. Even the lure of brushing the goats didn't help. Finally I had to just pick her up and take her out because there were a lot of other kids trying to get a front row viewing.


THIS is the face I got after removing us from the Snow Leopard : (

Now who wants an unhappy girl at the Zoo on a beautiful day in May...not me! So I started doing our little joke we do with the Barney song "I can see it on your face" You know..when you're angry, when you're sad, when you're happy...works everytime.

When you're ANGRY

When you're SAD (notice she is almost cracking a smile)

When you're HAPPY ...well, by this time she was ready to go do something else so the happy face wasn't her usual big cheesy grin but at least she was a happy girl again!

As we were getting ready to leave we had ice cream...she took my spoon so she had two. Now there's the HAPPY face I was looking for earlier!

*Yes, we did come home and swim in our backyard pool..but I didn't even take my camera out with me. Shocked I know, but Mamarazzi was on a break : )