Emma's First Trip To The Zoo

Michael and I woke up to the tornado sirens going off; Emma didn’t even budge. This girl can literally sleep through anything. We were questioning even going since it was raining as we were leaving the house, but as we looked to the west it was clearing up. We figured by the time we got to the zoo, we may only have to wait a little bit for the rain to pass. And sure enough, we waited about 5 minutes for Michael's mom to get there and it was slowing down. And the rest of the morning was beautiful!


Emma's outfits for the day; and she wore them all!

We got to the zoo early enough to do some of the free stuff. For one hour before the zoo opens, guests can go into the children’s zoo, ride the carousel, or go into Caribbean cove to pet the sting rays and sharks. We only had enough time to do one thing so we went to pet the animals. That was a weird feeling, all slippery and slimy.


Daddy and Grandma petting the animals.


Emma wasn't too interested in petting the sting rays and sharks.

After that we walked around the entire zoo; spending about three hours total there. The majority of the time, Emma was sleeping, except when she woke up to eat. Emma wore her giraffe dress and I wanted to get a picture with the giraffes in the background, well unfortunately they weren’t outside today. Maybe another day Emma!


Daddy pushing Emma around the hippos.


Trying to find those giraffes, especially since mommy made me wear my giraffe dress. Maybe next time we will see them.


Oh My! It's like a meat locker in here! We went into the puffin and pengiun house.


Emma enjoying a snack at the zoo.

Look at all these baby animals we saw:

It's Bambi!


A zebra, like my second outfit.


A kangaroo. This one we took for Uncle Scott who got to see many kangaroos in Australia.


Look at this silly monkey, oh wait...it's my dad!


And a baby elephant.


Kisses from Grandma


Emma catching some zzz's before going to eat lunch.