Zoo pictures finally!

Julia arrives at the zoo...

She isn't sure of what to think at the elephant exhibit.


Mallory smiled even though she said it stunk!

Tracy carts Julia off to the next exhibit.

Ah, yes... the "cool spot" - we have a picture of Mallory with Tracy under the same one when she was 2 years old. She cried too when Tracy first made her go through it but then, like Julia, she got over it.

I am not sure there are even words to describe this picture - this is outside the gorilla house.

This is one of the gorillas at the window peeking at us all.

Yeah, we're bad. When we took Mallory to the zoo at age 2, we told her this exhibit was where they kept her "Unky Phil". She later went home and told people she saw Unky Phil at the zoo...

Really, insanely tall Bamboo.

Just before the end of the zoo trip at the petting zoo spot.

And this is 5 minutes later, at the playground OUTSIDE the zoo.

I'm not sure what Mallory liked best - the zoo or the monkey bars outside of the zoo!

My mom and dad are in town and spending some time with Julia this evening, so I thought I'd get caught up on posting some pictures. All in all, we had a fun trip. I think Julia was a little overwhelmed - she did lean forward and take a closer look at the spider monkeys and squirrel monkeys. Kinda passive about the rest... and Mallory, as always, just wants to know when can we come back?!