livin on the WiLd side


Thursday, March 22, 2012

Sunshine and barking seals make for one fun afternoon. Yesterday we ventured to our local Chaffee Zoo in hopes of spurring Evelyn's love for wild things. The park was a deserted paradise as overgrown trees and vines canopied our walkways, wild birds chirped in our ears, baby monkeys hung so delicately from trees and we made our way from exhibit to exhibit. My main love for this small zoo is the fact that you can actually feed the giraffes, which at bigger zoos that's not an option. Once we got to the giraffes we found that they closed no less than 30 seconds before we arrived at the gate. I. WAS. SO. POUTY. SO POUTY. Not even Ev's pretty little face could convince them to bring the ranger guy out for once last feeding. I debated crying there in public for a bit, but tried to calm myself and say that Ev would have freaked out when that giraffe licked her hand anyway and I would have just ended up with a photo of her crying with a massive spotted neck. But that's the experience I wanted and now it was gone. Oh well, life goes on and we moved to the next best thing - the sting ray exhibit where Ev would surely be able to pet the sting rays. Nope, it closed to. The petting zoo? No. I guess we went too close to closing time, but 4pm is hardly a proper closing time in the spring. They definitely need to adjust their hours to make them more daylight savings appropriate.

But we did laugh at the seals who were very active, peered at the zebras and kangaroos. Evelyn's favorite for some reason were the flamingos. Maybe because they were pink and loud - just like her ;) The afternoon was still a success. If you can't tell, Ev has gotten a lot of positive attention lately from her aunt and uncle. And I feel like I have two nannies. It's a win win.

P. S. I love my imac and I am missing it while I am away, but I do like how PC's have a backspace button. Why, Apple, do you just have a delete?

16 comments:

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  2. On your Mac, fn+delete will delete to the right :)

    Love your blog!

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  3. Oh this makes me so excited to take our little man to the zoo this summer!! So, so fun!

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  4. Oh my gosh, those pictures are so adorable! Your little one looks so happy!

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  5. OMG, Im so glad that Im not the only one that misses the backspace button on the mac. Seriously I love love my Mac and will never change back to a old PC but really no backspace button is for the birds. Sounds like a fun day at the Zoo the pictures are cute.

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  6. Wow these pictures are so clear! Evelyn is looking so much like you these days, you can really see it in that second picture :)
    xo

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  7. bummer you were not able to feed the giraffes! But your right I bet that totally would have freaked her out, giraffes are quite big. I love the pictures! Love that your having so much fun and thats awesome that Ev's getting so much positive attention :-)

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  8. I guess this is the week to go to the zoo! We just took my daughter for the first time (though she slept in the stroller the whole time!) and a few other bloggers on my blog roll have zoo posts up, too!

    So glad you had fun, but what a bummer about the giraffes! The same thing happened to us with Santa this year. So sad. But, there's always next year!

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  9. Aw how sweet! and the comment about mac vs pc is quite hilarious. I've often wondered myself!!

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  10. Cute pics!

    Megan @ Storybook Love Affair

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  11. How cute is she.

    And feeding a giraffe terrified me their tongues are so long and a weird colour.

    my mac has a back space buttn but is that because I have a different type pad thing--or have I got the wrong end of the stick? Probably.

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  12. love this pictures! & I love Evelyn's headband, too cute!

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  13. I found your blog from the happy hour. Such a cute baby girl!! I am a new follower!

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  14. Ah, your kid is Adorable! Love her little headband:) So jealous of your weather by the way!! Oh, and you are rockin those sunnies!!

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  15. lol good memories at the Chaffee Zoo!

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  16. Evelyn is just the prettiest little thing! Love her outfit, glad you had fun at the Zoo even though you didnt get to do some things, they definitely need to change their times!

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