1st Trip to the Zoo

Yes that's right this was Gavin's first trip to the zoo. You would think that with us living only 5 minutes from the zoo that we would go every weekend. We have also lived here for a little over 4 years and we have not taken Gavin's Gi-Gi (my mom) to the zoo either. Every year she has said we're going to the zoo but it never happens. Well Gavin absolutely loved the zoo and was very well behaved for an almost 2 year going through his trouble twos. We went with some friends of ours, Jenna, Elle (Gavin's future girlfriend), and Mandy. We went first thing in the morning to beat the Saturday crowd and get the trip in before nap time.
We started at the sea lions which loved to swim up to the glass and let the kids look at them. Gavin pointed and laughed and of course wanted to stand right up to the glass so he could get a closer look. Next was the polar bear, he was showing off for sure. He would swim up to the glass, jump out the water, and then dive back down into the water. WOW, he was a site even for the adults.


We then went into the Desert and there was all kind of cactus, snakes and turtles. Gavin was fascinated by this turtle, he just keep starring at him and so did the turtle. But Elle wanted to get out with Gavin and look at this one sleeping cat thing, not sure what is was called.

After all this excitement Gavin spotted the carousal and wanted to ride. He loves the carousal, every time we go to Concord shopping we have to ride that one too. But that's OK whatever makes him happy. We started off on the polar bear but ended up on the dolphin, I don't know why he didn't like the polar bear. But I thought the giraffe was super cute so I had to get a picture with him.

We went to see several other animals like the monkeys, bears, zebras, bison and elephants but we were mostly excited about the giraffe feeding area. You can actually hand feed the giraffes, how cool is that. Gavin did not make it to the Africa area of the zoo and feel asleep before we made it to the giraffes. But the giraffes were not up at the feeding area and were up by the rocks so I was able to get a picture of them, they are an amazing site to see. So on our next trip, which will be soon, we will start in Africa and work our way back.