Minnesota Zoo

We went to the Minnesota Zoo today. I haven't been there for about 3 or 4 years. Chadd said it's been more like 20 years since he's been there!

As you can imagine, Christopher is at a perfect age to explore and react to the animals. We had so much fun watching his reactions. And Ashly enjoyed playing with him.

My favorite monkey boys!!!

Lookin at the buffalo.

Looking at the Prairie Dogs.

Christopher did a lot of pointing.

Ashly took this picture. I guess she thought the camels were cool looking!

Yep, that's the only picture of me since I was the photographer.

Playing at the playground.

The zoo has a separate farm area. Here we are riding on a trailer pulled by a tractor which takes us to the farm.

Here is Chadd with his favorite animal, the goat!

Christopher absolutely loved feeding the goats. He was not shy, he would give them a piece of their food one by one and laugh. Watching him feed the goats was my favorite moment of the day! We talked about needing to go to a few more local petting zoos since he has no fear when it comes to feeding the animals.

It was definately worth a couple extra bucks worth of food to watch Christopher feed the goat.

Ashly was a great helper the whole day. Since she did most the animal watching with him, I was able to get all these great pictures!

He liked turning the steering wheel on the tractor.

Gotta love that smile!

This is a really fat pig! (I know, give her some time to lose her "baby weight"!!!) P.S. Just a statue :)

Christopher

Ashly

After about 4 hours at the zoo, lots of action, lots of animals, lots of walking, eating lunch and the heat...we lost Christopher. The rest of us were tired too, so we decided it was time to head home. What a great day!!! We will definately have to make this an annual trip. We didn't see the giraffes or the zebras - my two favorite animals. Next time!