Zoo Part II.

Today we planned on taking my Aunt and Uncle, Marge and Jim, to the Zoo. When we woke up today it was raining. :( bummer. So we met them for breakfast hoping it would stop. No such luck. Then we walked around the mall waiting for the skies to clear up - still raining. We even went out to New Market to shop around a little. Finally it was starting to lighten up. So when it stopped raining we decided to press our luck and head to the Zoo. We got there and headed for the penguins because they had never seen that exhibit.

Elena is the size of an "Magellan Penguin" and a bunch of others too! :)

Then they wanted to see the new Tiger exhibit. We headed that way as the sky started to darken... the leopard was pacing back and forth which I had never seen.


Guess I should have known because as soon as I snapped this picture it started to rain. And then it absolutely poured!!! We ran to the tigers and were totally drenched by the time we got there!

Can you see the puddles on Elena's stroller? We were soaking wet!

and so was Mr. Tiger!

We waited for about 10 minutes and then guess what? It totally cleared up - yay! The sun came out and the rain was gone! It actually got really hot after that! We headed to the Gorillas next. This guy was relaxing by the window.

Jim and Elena.

Jim, Elena, my Mom and Marge.

Elena's favorite Gorilla of them all!

We actually got to see a lot of animals we didn't get to see last time. Here is an adorable meerkat.

And we got to see the baby Zebra! It was so cute!!

It was running around everywhere! I should have had my camcorder because it was so funny! This was definitely my favorite part of today.

We went into the rainforest exhibit next.

The prairie dogs were eating - also really cute.

Last was the monkeys but Elena was out!

Too bad because this one was right at the glass!

And this one was just chillin'! It looked so human-like!

So minus the 10 minute downpour and soaking wet clothes it turned out to be a really great day for the Zoo! We had a fun time showing Marge and Jim around. Still didn't get to the petting zoo, I guess we will have to go there next time!