The Harper Family: The Zoo

September 28th I woke up, had no plans and needed to take advantage of the warm weather. So I called up my mother in law and said we needed to go to the zoo. I headed up with the kids and picked Grandma up and convinced Uncle Corey to come with us. This was one of the best days at the zoo ever (well besides the Singapore Zoo. That is the best zoo!) Our first stop was the monkey house. Most of the monkeys were hiding but the last one we stopped was there to see. We looked for a second and then as I was turning away I saw a sign that caught my eye. It said, "New Arrival, born Sept 28th". Huh, I thought how cute a baby monkey..... Then I realized that Sept 28th was today! That monkey had just had her baby a few hours before we got there. You could even still see the placenta in her cage. I didn't notice the baby at first because I just thought her hands were white. Then I realized the baby was white and she was holding it. The zoo worker came out then and I got to ask her some questions. It was so cool!

After that excitement we decided to head over and visit the baby Elephant. Here's a cute picture of Grandma Harper and Grace at the Elephant Exhibit.

The baby Elephant was so cute!

We then stopped at the Rhino's and got an up close view of him eating. Grace was amazed at how close he was.

In the background here you can see 2 rhino's, plus Grace sitting on one.

Garett's favorite thing was the Penguins! I think he like them most because he could really see them from the stroller. They were really close to us through this fence. He laughed at them playing and kept pointing and getting really excited.

Next up was the baby Giraffe! He was pretty cute too, though he didn't do much but sit there and chew on grass.

There were so many new babies at the zoo this year. We got to see some baby tigers, and some other baby cats (I can't remember which ones). Here is my cute baby on a baby tiger.

Last but not least we got to see the Big Apes. The Orangutan baby was really fun to watch. He was swinging on a rope and bugging his mom. Grace had to measure up to a baby Gorilla. They've changes this since I was little, we used to be able to only measure up to the big Gorilla. Looks like she's just the right size.

On our way out we stopped at the Playground where Grace became a Turtle asleep in it's shell.