Friday, March 30, 2007

Atlanta Zoo (Part 1)

We had a wonderful trip to the Atlanta Zoo last week. Sylvia organized a group of homeschool families, and Jon took the day off and the six of us (including Julia) headed for downtown Atlanta.
The first exhibit we saw was the flamingo habitat, just inside the entrance. They looked cool, but boy did they stink! Syndi and Junior liked their pink color.
We visited the Panda exhibit, where we saw Yang Yang (above) and Mei Lan (the cub, who was sleeping), and Lun Lun (the mom).
Syndi enjoyed pretending to be various animals throughout the day. Here she posed as a panda.
Junior wasn't the only kid who liked this rock outside the panda exhibit. I've heard of a rocking chair, but is this a rock chair?
Here was saw a joey checking out his momma's pouch. Cute, eh?

Syndi and Sylvia posing as kangaroos while Junior waits for his turn.

They had a petting zoo. The kids enjoyed it. This particular goat decided to go to the bathroom right in front of our family.

Junior hanging out at the petting zoo...literally.

They had a wetlands area, and you can see the turtles camouflaged on the far shore.

Junior and daddy pointing out the turtles. Lunch followed this. We'll have to share more in Part 2.

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