We fit so much in to our Memorial Day weekend I have to rewind to document our trip to the Minnesota Zoo.
Memorial Day weekend was the opening weekend of a new host of African animals that they’ve got displayed along their Tropical Trail. We decided to go check them out.
I think the girls are checking out the crocodiles here.
Those are two of the funniest birds I’ve ever seen. What is going to hatch from those eggs?!
Lindsey and Marissa literally came out of their shells.
The biggest hit had to be the grizzly bears. It’s a relatively new exhibit, and usually when we’ve been by the bears are off in the furthest part of the exhibit, sleeping in big fur balls in the shade. But since it was pretty hot this day, they were “fishing” in the water right next to the glass divider. Unfortunately for the bears, the water isn’t actually stocked with fish, but there was a stick that was in there that they had fun taking turns fishing out.
The cheetah was pretty cool, he was pacing along the glass and watching the people as he passed. You can see the girls’ hands as the cheetah dipped his head down to get petted. Too bad for him there was glass between he and the humans. He’ll just have to imagine it.
The tiger area had a display about scat, which is tiger poop. (Not sure why it’s called scat – jazz singers everywhere should be offended.) Lindsey was fascinated by this display and was touching the pretend scat, when Wayne told her he was pretty sure it was the real deal.
All too soon it was time to go. Marissa bought a new pink hat in the souvenir shop as we left, which she’s been wearing every day since.
We didn’t try to see everything, so we will definitely have to come back a few times this summer to see the rest of the sites.
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