Woodland Park Zoo

Daddy is doing a three-day training in Bellevue, Washington (Seattle), this week, so since the hotel and gas was already paid for, the kids and I tagged along. We left early Sunday and drove to Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo. Our Oregon Zoo membership gives us free entry into Seattle's zoo as well, which is great because it's much better than our zoo (as well as more expensive)!


For the entire two-and-a-half-hour drive, Abby couldn't keep quiet about seeing the Komodo Dragon. We checked out a Popular Mechanics for Kids DVD from the library about Gators & Dragons and Other Wild Beasts, and both Ryan and Abby have been watching it over and over.


So when we found out the Woodland Park Zoo has a Komodo Dragon exhibit, they were thrilled. Of course, that was the first exhibit we went to see, and it was pretty cool. Both kids were surprised at how big the dragon really is.




After getting the dragon exhibit behind us, we tried to see all the animals that we don't have at our zoo, so we saw the lions and wolves, we saw the wild dogs and jaguars, we saw the emus and kangaroos, as well as lots of other reptiles and primates that we don't have. These lemurs were really putting on a show, chasing each other and making sounds that I couldn't even begin to describe!


We rode the carousel, and had fun in the parakeet and cockatiel exhibit. You could buy sticks with some food on the end to feed the birds with, but it must have been a busy day because the birds didn't seem very interested in the food. We did manage to coax two birds onto our stick for Ryan and Abby to hold and watch eat. We have lorakeets at the Oregon Zoo which are much more eager to sip the nectar than these were to eat the millet, but it was still a neat exhibit.


After we saw what we wanted at the zoo, we headed to the waterfront for some dinner and the Seattle Center, mostly so the kids could see the Space Needle up close. Then we drove to our hotel, checked in, and tried to settle the kids down for some sleep.