Monkeys on the loose at the Zoo!

Hungry Howler Monkeys

Sleepy Penguins and Wired Toddlers

Cleaning out an orifice

Sadie and her steed

Baby orangutan about to fall off his perch

Hmm.. maybe it's a girl, not a boy

Sadie playing on the playground.

KIDDING!

Our favorite little orangutan showing off.

You pick your favorite image label for this picture.

Is it:

1. A bit of a suggestive pose, but to each his own

or

2. Baby got back

or

3. Todd and his sweater sunning himself

My 2 girls on the train

My two toddlers in a pipe

A monkey escaping the zoo, via slide

Goodbye Zoo! We can't wait for our next visit!

Decided to take my monkeys to the zoo on Friday.

We were "downtown" already for Tanner's U of U football camp,

so we decided to make a day of it. It was really fun.

We dropped T off at the U and headed immediately for the zoo.

We were the FIRST ones into the park--

how come that can't happen for important things like work or church? Hmm...

It was an absolutely gorgeous morning and the animals were full of themselves.

Mine, as well as the furry, four-legged ones.

We managed to see a few of them eating breakfast, but most of them

were starring at us like they would like to eat us.

The howler monkeys were especially creepy.

They took one look at us and came as close to the glass as they could get.

They peered at us and smacked their lips.

One even started banging his fork against the glass of his cage.. (kidding)

At first it was cute, then not so much.

In all of my visits to the zoo, I have never seen the wolves up and moving around.

It was awesome to see them all frisky and alive.

I have often wondered if there were really wolves in the wolf exhibit, cause you never see 'em.

They really were acting just like regular ol' dogs,

pouncing and running and jumping.

Well, like normal dogs. Not really like Sophie.

The thing that resembled Sophie was the freakish large turtle.

I have never seen anything in my life so grotesque, but strangely cute.

Well, except for Sophie (see here).

Loved, loved, loved the giraffes. Especially funny was the one that kept sticking

his tongue in each nostril. It would just fling that 4 foot tongue up, like it was

fishing for something. It would land in a nostril every time. Crazy. Humorous.

Animals are weird.

The best was the orangutan. The baby was awake and high in his perch, playing with his

"blankie" (a canvas sack). Seriously, so cute. We watched him for a few minutes, and then

the kids were getting antsy, so we started to walk away.

I swear, it was as if he got ticked because we were leaving.

He started swinging his blanket up and down and when he could

see he really had our attention, he proceeded to throw it down into

the little stream that goes through his enclosure.

Showoff.

We laughed and watched for a few more minutes and then

Sadie was pulling on my finger, so we started to walk away,

but again, Baby Orangutan was not having it.

He started swinging around, upside-down on his rope

with another of his "blankies"

So fun. I could have watched all day.

But alas,

I have offspring, who look at an endangered species

for 1.3 seconds and then get bored and run to the next exhibit

where they see another fascinating creature which bores them.

I swear we saw all that the zoo has to offer in about 16 minutes.

The funniest (and most annoying) thing about my whole quarter hour

spent at the zoo was discovering Luke's favorite animals.

Of all of the animals at the zoo, Luke's favorite was the peacock

and the squirrels that run freely through the zoo grounds and that are a

dime an dozen.

Luke: "MOM MOM MOM MOM! Look at the cute squirrels. Oh, I wish

I could hold them and pet them. Can we have them for our pets? Look

how cute they are? I want to have one for a pet. Please can you get one for me?

I really think they would be fun to have at our house..." and on and on and on.

Seriously, we spent more time watching the squirrels and trying to touch a peacock

than looking at all of the other animals combined.

Kids are so weird.