We took advantage of the "heatwave" we are having today. After church and some lunch we headed off to the Sedgwick County Zoo. It was beautiful out - sun was warm and it felt so good to be outside after being couped for the last week. We practically had the zoo to ourselves. I only got a few pictures because my camera battery died.
Russ riding the bull at the farm animal area - London did NOT want to get on it.
The Giraffes, Rhinos, Elephants and Hippos were all inside today. We learned a lot today - pretty fun to talk with the workers when there aren't so many people there. Russ and London are looking at the hippos. We learned today that they have a five year project going on. The elephants will be getting a new display it will be over by the lions and tigers. The giraffes will relocated behind their current building with the rhinos and we can't remember where the hippos will be. But they are completely going to redo the Africa area.
They were cleaning the elephants feet, filing nails and scraping the bottoms. I learned that these elephants were approximately two years old when they came to our zoo - they have been here 36 years. The hippos have also been there that same amount of time.
There were so many animals out and about that normally you don't see much of - like the lions. We had to get a picture of them. The tigers were fun to watch today also. The female was pacing and kept walking up to the window and freaked London out a little bit - their heads are gigantic!
Fun time at the zoo today. I think we have paid for our membership 10x over. It is fun when you can pop in for a little bit and hit the exhibits you enjoy most.
Probably the coolest thing I just learned - our zoo has a preschool! How fun would that be to attend preschool at the zoo! We are going to have to look into that for London this fall.
