DC Zoo 2010

Last Sat Kenn, B and I took our annual trip to the DC Zoo!
It was beautiful out! For the first time ever we drove instead of taking the metro.
It was super easy and way better then the metro!
My favorite part of driving was that you park half way down the zoo
so you begin the day walking up the hill and work your way down,
instead of walking down and at the end of the day when its
the hottest and your tired having to walk ALL the way back to the top to the metro.

So the first thing we did was go see my favorite animal the panda :)
We walked outside and could see one of them way at the top
(basically just his rear) so kenn suggested we go inside and
we found the other panda playing with a ball

Then after we went back outside and the other one had moved
so at least you could see his better side.
I want to take him home!

Then we walked down and saw the zebra's and gazelle

Went to the small animal house where b got to touch the shell of a armadillo
We walked around the gorilla house and got to see a really amazing
sight of a mommy and her baby. They were pretty active.

The elephant house was closed but they had 2 of their elephants outside
with the trainers doing tricks. Which you normally don't get to see
Below it was putting its foot up for them .

Then the trainer had her sit down, then lay down

she was very sweet.

Then we went to the reptile house where kenn came up with the game
of finding the animals on the exhibit picture.
Below is b with the diamondback rattlesnake.

Turtles

Finding the colored tree frogs

B was most excited to see the lions and tigers

Then it was playtime at the children's pizza area

He would stack the mushrooms

and use them to get on top of the tomatoe

"TAA_DAA"

We completed the trip with some ice cream and then got stuck in bad DC traffic.
That part wasn't great, but we think we have a different GPS route next time.
Overall one of the less crowded, most perfect weather, easy zoo trips!