critters everywhere

wow talk about animal overload! sorry guys, i just really like zoos and this makes it sorta obvious, embarrassing! and so does chase let me tell you. we felt a little too excited, especially when i heard they had a rhino. watch out four year olds, i get to be in front haha! chase was going on and on about how the san diego zoo is the best ever, of course its californnnnniiia where everything is the best (wink). and i was just stoked to see such cool critters that i have never seen before! the boise zoo in idaho is the only one i have been to and the animals there are very different and more mountainy. the coolest one is a tiger and they had a giraffe once but by the time i got around to visiting with my nieces it had died. sad. so this zoo was pretty awesome if you ask me.

our first stop, although meant to be last, was the gift shop. both of us love the gift shop and found ourselves waisting time in there. we tried on silly masks and hats and checked out all the cool stuffed animals. when i was little those places were heaven to me. can't wait to have kids and let them pick one! and that beanie ball was huge, check that turtle out! trumped the pillow pets thats for sure.

then we began our animal stroll and we saw lots of cool tropical birds and awesome monkeys. gibbons were my favorite! we looked at funky reptiles since chase is obsessed and i got a picture being a turtle in front of the "fly turtle" cause hello, my maiden name. then we were walking to check out the gators when i saw a dang dinosaur! check that thing out, it was GINORMOUS you should a seen it in real life. so awesome.

the african savanna was cool. we saw giraffes, zebras, crazy hippos, our flamingo friends, arthur the aardvark, ostriches, baboons, lizard things, rhinos, and even timon from the lion king was there! after the african savanna we hit up the keikis petting zoo and looked at the huge koi and pet lots of goats. and to top of our visit we saw the huge elephant from asia! i had never seen one before so that was pretty rad. oh i also ate dipping' dots for the first time. they were tasty. and shout out to my sister megan, i took that last picture in front of those trees solely for you and drew. i think you guys should make a new iPhone case out of this wood, it's so awesome! so that's a wrap to our zoo visit. someday i'll have a child hooked to my hip and the zoo will be that much funner.