Thursday, June 3, 2010

Woodland Park Zoo

A few weeks ago we took a little trip to the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle.
We've been there a few times before but this is the first time we've seen the jaguar.
Hannah and Rachel checking out some frogs.

My sweet baby Rachel.

Little Hannah sitting on a flamingo nest.

They have a little play area at the zoo and the girls had so much fun there.

Hannah was a great climber on this spider web.
She also got to climb this tree.

It was funny because she kept telling this 8 year old boy in front of her to hurry up so she could climb higher.
The boy eventually got down so she could climb. She was up higher than I could reach--good thing Dan is so tall--he helped her get up high.


I think Hannah would have spent the whole day climbing trees.
Luckily we had some snacks to bribe her with.

Oh, Hannah. I don't think there is anyone out there who loves goats as much as Hannah. She even kissed one. Yuck!

My favorite part of the zoo is always the hippos.

I was pretty excited when this man started talking. He was at the zoo as part of an exchange program from Africa.
He works with people in Africa whose homes and crops are destroyed by hippos and elephants.
He brought with him a few hippo teeth and also a section of hippo skin to show it's thickness.
I liked listening to him and Hannah liked holding the tooth.


Rachel having a little snuggle with her daddy.


We got to hear this elephant make a trumpet noise.

Rachel really liked seeing the elephants with her daddy.

This big ball was one that the elephants played with when they were young.
Both girls loved riding the carousel.




What a fun day at the zoo!

1 comment:

Cheryl said...

Im so glad that Hannah finally got to climb a tree- and what a climber she is! thanks for all of those great photos- it was almost as good as going to the zoo with you guys!