Last month we took Emma to the zoo. We have a year-long pass with our friends and old neighbors, the Linton's. This has been the only time we've been able to go together as a family. Emma loves seeing the animals at the zoo. It's fun to walk around and see her reactions. She has some favorites, like the elephant. She tries to imitate what the elephant says.
Daddy and Emma at the Elephant exhibit. Every other time we've been to the zoo it's been too cold for them to be out. It was fun to actually see them this time.
The Elephant was very big. Emma was a little scared.
Another one of her favorites is the Giraffe. She has a painting of one in her room that Broc Buttars gave us for a wedding present. She always points it out when I'm laying down to get her asleep.
The Black Bears gave us a show and decided to play fight. It was pretty fun. They drew a pretty big crowd.
Chad's favorite is the gorilla. He was chowing down on a coconut when we went to visit him.
They have a little play area for kids. This is Emma in a big Dinosaur Egg.
Chad had a hard time even setting Emma up on this gigantic spider. They are by far his biggest fear.
Emma had fun in this little tunnel thing. They have similar ones at the Bountiful Park that she likes to play in.
The Groundhogs have a little playground where we could pop our heads up and look at each other. Emma thought it was so cool poking her head out of the ground.
Emma thought spinning this big ball covered in water was the funnest thing she's ever done. It was hard to get her away from it. This was at the end of our trip and after a crowd came she left the ball. We were watching very closely from a bench not too far away, but she didn't see us. There weren't many people around and I just wanted to see what she would do. She just wandered. She didn't seem to care that she couldn't find us. She looked at bugs and just walked in circles. When she started to get too far away I called out to her. She turned around, saw us, and just kept walking. Aparently she wasn't too concerned. We took that opportunity while she was distracted from the big water ball to head for the exit. She didn't even see it coming.
This is a clip of the bears fighting. They went at it for a while. I think they're cute, but of course we were on the other side of a huge fence. It wouldn't have been so cute if that fence wasn't there.
This is one of Emma's very inventive ways of getting through that tunnel. She sure does have a mind of her own. As you can tell, she's having a blast.
Another version of Emma crawling through the tunnel.
Emma again in the tunnel.
