Sunday, June 7, 2009

St Louis Zoo

For Memorial Day weekend, we went to St Louis to see our friends Tyler and Andrea Hooper. Since we love the zoo and St Louis has (arguably) the best zoo in the US, we decided to go visit. With 3 blogs about zoos in the past 6 months, it seems a theme is emerging.

The complete collection of St Louis zoo photos is here.

Tyler, Andrea, Christie, Bruce
Hayden in front


us, in front of the elephants

Andrea with Hayden

Have you ever seen a tiger in the water before?


We were literally six inches from this hippopottamus, or hippo-thomas as Hayden calls it. There was a large glass wall that allowed us to look into the water where the hippos were swimming/running. This guy kept turing around right in front of us and he usually knocked his nose into the glass!


Here are some elephants playing in the water to cool down. They even used the water fall to bathe themselves. In the picture, the baby elephant is squirting water from his trunk. He had a hard time staying up in the deep water. In fact, he sometimes stood at the bottom of the pool and just raised his trunk out of the water to breathe.




Kansas City Zoo


Our first outing (other than Target and Walmart) was to the Kansas City Zoo. In fact, we became members of the zoo (read: season pass holders). Some of our favorite photos are below. The complete collection is here.

Meerkat

Serval
I had never even heard of this before!

Elephant







Our Apartment in Kansas City

Since everyone is dying to find out what our apartment looks like, here it is! (What? You weren't dying to find out?)


The outside of our building.


A simple video tour


Santa Chewing on a Rawhide Stick