Zoo Day

Zoo time!

YAY!

We love the Zoo!

Today we met up with a friend and went to the Zoo!

It was Halloween week, which sounded so cool!

It was even Western Day, so Cooper was able to wear his cowboy boots!

"BOO! at the ZOO!" week sounds awesome.
Until it means they close down some of the best exhibits so the animals don't get scared.

They tell you to let your child dress up.

But because your kid is dressed up (like they say on the website), the Monkey Encounter exhibit is closed.

The Monkey Encounter exhibit is the best of all the exhibits!

You get to walk in to a "caged" in very large outside area and multiple little tiny monkeys come running up to you! It is so much fun and the kids love it! 

So Cooper and I were very sad that we didn't get to see all the fun monkeys up close!

The Giraffe Encounter was also closed.

Normally you can pay to feed the giraffes and they get super close and eat out of your hands!

But again, Since it was halloween week, and kids are in costumes, that exhibit wasn't open.

Another thing,

They had a newborn Orangoutang 

(apes, not monkeys, because they don't have tails-- as we were so kindly corrected by the woman who worked there outside of the window, as we told our one year olds "look at the baby monkey").

There was a little girl in her costume, and the woman told her to stop there (about 3 feet away from the glass) because she would scare the baby.

All in all,

The concept of "Boo! at the ZOO" sounds cool,

but it doesn't really allow you to experience any of the fun stuff at the zoo!

Either way we did still have a GREAT time!

Even when the boys hugged each other, and it would seem that Cooper had super hugging strength as he proceeded to knock the poor boy down, we had a blast!

mid fall. They just loved each other so much they couldn't handle it!

Our Buddy Andrew

Knocking on the door

He kept running back to knock on the door :)

Baby " Ape"