Zoo with Grandpa - October 3rd, 2014
Girls find the red panda on the first cool day of fall
Royal bird at the Carruth Natural Encounters exhibit
Erin crawls through the treacherous pirana tube
Alex backs her up like all good sisters should
Longhorn Tamarin is nervous about tomorrow's OU game
Try to get a photo of the girls in the darkness with the bats
Oh no, P. Sherman is capturing Nemo again, Marlin, where are you?
Girls pose with their favorite cartoon dentist
Jerry checks out the meercats who check out Jerry, man he is tall!
Meercats, run, play and stretch out and a beautiful fall morning
And I thought I was tall at a massive 13 inches!
Alex & Erin say hi to Blanco the white alligator, not an albino!
Where's Waldo the snapping turtle? Hard without his striped sweater!
Lumpy lizard catching some much needed beauty sleep
Caterpillar tries to blend into the leafage above the hungry lizard
Poisonous frogs who are fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars
I feel like posing, catch me now before I stretch out across the tank
Hi and Lois say, Good Morning, now shhhh, we're napping
Smaug the Komodo dragon loves to pose with little girls like Erin
Over to the elephant environment to see Duncan, born in February
A second baby elephant tamed Tupelo also roams the enclosure
Tupelo goes for a swim while his momma watches over him
Don't worry momma, I can get out all by myself
No need for the cooling tank today, the weather is quite pleasant
Daddy, get a photo of us climbing on the elephant pose area
Grandpa poses too, but no more room to climb on the elephant
As we depart, someone drops by to check out the cooling pool
Jaquar is out in the open today enjoy the sun on a cooler day
Shasta the UH cougar is also up high enjoying the view
Two tigers, excited about the cooler day, show their stripes to visitors
Lion is always napping this time of day, but right at the viewing window
Lioness likes to nap up high away from the viewing window
Check out two clouded leopards climb and play
Erin notices that they look like a favorite stuffed animal
Wouldn't it be fun to have our own two kittens play at home?
Jaguar is out and up front due to the mid 70's temperature
Ring tailed lemurs sit in a tree and dangle their tails for photos
Birds and turtle enjoy the enclosure with the lemurs
Zoo keeper pushes some salad into a primate enclosure
There is always a long line at the salad bar!
Neat colors on the Madagascar Coquerel’s Sifaka
Hey! Are you looking at me?
Monkeys give each other massage on a relaxing day at the zoo
Howler monkeys rest after an early morning howling session
Grouchy orangutan Alex and howling chimpanzee Erin pose
Switch monkeys and add Grandpa at the top!
The girls pose by the giraffe enclosure
Time for a visit to the petting zoo full of friendly goats
Really, it is the brushing zoo and the goats don't mind at all
Someone didn't separate the sheep from the goats!
I'm great with pony tails but you just don't have enough hair for one
These goats have NO TANGLES because they are brushed ALL DAY
Yes! Right there! That is perfect!
Visit the prairie dog enclosure that has pairie dogs within it once again
Daddy's favorite pairie dogs make the scene
Aren't prairie dogs cute and adorable?
The other prairie dogs clear out to allow the spotlight on these 2
Cactus water is always the tastiest and most refreshing
The girls pose with the swans
Let us arise and be beautiful as swans
The turtle doesn't mind the girls but the elephant & leopard?
Stop by the flamingos on the way to the koi pond
Where to they get enough shrimp to be that pink?
The girls make friends when they offer food at the koi pond
Check this out, koi really like tortillas
Koi splash to get in position for a tortilla
Grandpa help supply fish food to the girls
It is time to go when the girls start pulling reeds out of the water
Finish with a performance at the crowded sea lion pen
Sea lion knows what to recycle and what to throw away
Fish reenforcement gets the tank clean and pretty quickly
The girls pose on the rhinoceros on the way out
And then stand on the world of giraffe and monkeys
A beautiful fall day at the zoo was enjoyed by all!