Zoo!!

Saturday morning we decided to go to our local zoo.  They were having $1 admission day.  It's normally $8 per person.  So we decided to take advantage of it, along with the rest of the city of Springfield.  It was pretty crowded.  There were a ton of strollers!!  You don't notice this stuff until you have a kiddo.  It was fun though.  Lots of cool animals that you could get really close to.  It seemed like a lot of the birds there had free roam of the place.  There were peacocks just walking around all over the place.  And I guess some geese had made the zoo their home cause there were a lot of geese walking around as well. 

Hippos are so cool.  Even though they don't actually move that much.  I think this one was in and out of sleep.

I haven't seen a peacock in so long, I forgot how pretty and HUGE they are.  The colors are so bright and when they spread their feathers out they are humongous.  Also, I didn't realize that they could jump like cats.  This one above jumped down off of this railing to the ground and then later we saw one jump from the ground onto at least a 6 foot fence.

Geese walking around with their little geeselings.

Lydia got to see her some alligators.

They have a deck you can walk out on to see and feed the giraffes.  It was pretty neat.  Lydia is holding her toy giraffe as we play with the real ones.  One of the giraffes was a little too playful.  He lunged at every person who walked by him.  In the few minutes we were looking at them I saw him lunge at some lady and knock her in the chest and then he scared a boy half to death.

Looking at the Bongo's.

Flamingos!!