Kelly and I are zoo freaks. We love zoos. Any vacation we go on, we always try to make it to a zoo nearby. Our favorite so far has been the Omaha zoo.
We decided that Adalynn couldn't go her first year of life without visiting the zoo. I was a little bit bummed imagining hat she might not be able to actually see the animals or know what she was looking at, but was I pleasantly surprised!
We chose to go to John Ball Zoo, which is on the small side as far as zoos go, but it was the perfect zoo for her age. All of the animals were so close that there was no mistaking, she knew exactly what she was looking at. It was so neat to watch her watching them.
Close to the entrance is the aquarium, so the first exhibit we saw were the penguins. We rolled her stroller right up to the glass and the penguins were swimming just a couple feet in front of her face.
She did not like it. And it was hilarious. She looked at them...looked at me...looked back at them with a look of terror, then started crying.
No, I didn't just keep laughing (okay, maybe for a second), instead just grabbed her out of the stroller and she was much more content to watch them from my lap. Now her cousin on the other hand, he was loving them!
And tigers have the biggest heads I've ever seen. I would like to cuddle a tiger. You know, like a toothless one that's been declawed.
Here are a few pictures from the day...
This massive tiger was right up in B's face and he didn't even flinch, just looked up at him with awe. It was adorable.
And of course the pink flamingos.
It was a great first trip to the zoo. Both of the little ones were in good moods the whole time and were both interested in every animal exhibit, it was so neat to watch them.
I can't wait for our next zoo adventure!
Man those are some cute kids!!
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