A Taste of the Wild

Zoo! Zoo! We went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo!

First stop: feeding the giraffes.

It's all happy and peaceful while one giraffe was around.

But when another butts in, watch out! Tongue fight! Liam almost lost his hand! (not really)

"Oh that was so funny, I just can't contain myself!"

Dash tried to keep from getting too much saliva on him.

"More lettuce please! Quick quick!"

Run away! We ran out of food and they're still hungry! Ack!

After that, this boy showed us all how to penguin walk.

And they fed some chickens.

And petted some too. Docile chickens.

One of Dash's favorite things to do these days is to grab a piece of Pogo's food, run over to her and feed it to her. One piece at a time. Keeps him busy.

They liked to watch the monkeys move about.

But it was the squirrel that really captured their attention. He's eating! He's so cute!

Meanwhile, Sean connected with his primal ancestry.

Of all the monkey exhibits, it was this one that Dash watched the longest. By far.

Sleepy orangutan!

I've got a tree-hugger son.

And a tree-hugger hubby.

This guy was working hard to impress a couple ladies a few feet away. Didn't seem to work.

We spelunked through a two-foot-long man-made cave. Awesome!

Don't forget about cuddles in-between!

We watched otters be cute and fight. (nice photo Sean)

We watched little boys be cute and fight.

Liam and Dash didn't care about this bear whatsoever and, man, he was putting on such a show, swimming and eating and catching fish. At one point, Dash had been sipping a drink on the ledge of the display far from the action but the bear suddenly swam up behind him. And all the other kids ran over to watch the bear up close, completely surrounding Dash. He was absolutely, completely oblivious to both the antsy kids in front of him and the wild bear feasting behind him. Good thing we don't live in the wild.

I guess the boys' apathetic attitude toward the bear rubbed off on everyone else.

Tiger blink.

And the boys' favorite exhibit of them all: the construction site. Bulldozers! Dirt! Tractors! So glad we came to the zoo!

(Congratulations for making it through all those pictures!)