A Trip to the Zoo

On the last day of school, John Michael, Jkaile and I went to the zoo with the kindergarten class. It's not a large zoo, but it had a surprising variety of animals, including lions, tigers, and bears! There were a lot of peacocks and chickens wandering around, which Jkaile enjoyed chasing...so here are a few pictures of the zoo...

Zoo entrance

the Kindergarten class (plus a couple of siblings)

Jkaile was a little overwhelmed at first...

The kids got to pet a baby jaguar that was barely 2 weeks old.

Me with a python...

Gracia and Jojo with one of the bunnies from the python cage...

they don't realize it's lunch for the python. :(

Feeding the animals...

One of the peacocks fluffed out right in front of us...so cool!

And what's a trip to the zoo without a little excitement?

Right after I took this picture, Jkaile stuck a finger in

the horses mouth and got it bit...

...then this monkey stole Gracia's entire bag of peanuts!

We didn't even try to get it back, the sign says he bites.

I missed Jojo's scuffle with the baboons, but fortunately

a couple of the dads were there to save him...

here he's showing me where the baboons

stretched out his shirt!

And to be honest, we were quite close to the animals...

this black panther could have easily taken a swipe

at us through the fence...but only the baboons seemed

interested in trying anything...

And at last we came to the pool!

It was perfect for the kids...not very deep and it

had lots of cool slides.

Gracia and Caleb...

I'm not a huge monkey fan, but this little guy

caught my attention on our way out...he wasn't

interested in the food, just wanted to hold my hand!