Here are my 4 girls

Giraffe’s look funny when they eat… don’t they?Give me a kiss baby!

Marissa started to pout and just stopped.  She said that she would not come… actually she said “I will newer come”… not newer like a new item, but pronounced like “never” with a “w” sound… So CUTE!  After 20 seconds, she decided to start walking again.

Beautiful Underwater Colors of the Aquarium
No trip to the zoo would be complete without an image of the King of the Beasts.  This guy was a little sleepy though.

An itchy polar bear got all the kids to giggle.
When we were looking at the seals and sea lions, a boy next to us was looking down into the pool and dropped his cowboy hat.  Instantly, the animals went from casually swimming around to coming over the the edge of the pool to investigate the new “visitor” in the water.  This guy came up on the ledge and just looked at and sniffed the hat.  Pretty neat.

Marissa’s at it again.  On the way our of the wolf exhibit, she started to ride a wolf statue and called it her “doggie”.  She wouldn’t come for about 10 minutes.  She even started to tell another little boy who came over to see “her” wolf (I mean dog), to go away because this was HER doggie.  She finally came and all of us parents got a laugh out of it.

I’ll leave you with this image that I really like.  It’s one that I call “Defiant Strength”.  The light was starting to get lower in the sky by this time and this rhino gave me a look I couldn’t pass up.  I subdued some of the color from this image (it’s not black and white though) and sharpened it a bit.  I love the wrinkles and fortitude of this guy… it was a boy rhino… trust me!

PS – I also captured an image of one of the sharks swimming around a very dimly lit viewing room in the aquarium.  It will become the first of our “photo lessions”.  Stay tuned!