Abby's Day - Part 2

After our fun time at the Pumpkin Patch, we headed to the zoo for the rest of the day. Abigail absolutely loves the zoo! No matter how many times we go, she is always interested in the animals and never ready to leave.


We only had a few hours since the zoo closes fairly early this time of year, but somehow we still managed to see most of it (it's a fairly wimpy zoo). We even got a close-up look at the male polar bear. He was playing right next to the viewing window, and it was impressive to see how truly huge he is.


It was such a gloriously beautiful fall day, and we almost felt like we had the whole place to ourselves since there were so few people there. We even let the kids play in the small statuary park that is usually swarming with kids but today only had two other small children.


After playing a while, we took a break from roaming the zoo to share a yummy Elephant Ear, one of Abby's favorite treats!


Today was unusual in another way also: we got to see the hippos out of water for the first time ever! Every time we've been before (and we've been a lot!) they have both been in the same spot in the water at a location difficult to see anything but a small portion of their backs. Today they were up and walking around, probably enjoying the lack of people as much as we were.


We were told they had already moved the wolves and grizzlies to another zoo (they are putting in some other exhibit), so we were surprised to see this guy still there in habitat. We've never gotten such a good look at him before, and it's too bad he'll be leaving soon. It was kind of odd and gave me the creeps because he just keep staring at the kids. I was wondering if he was trying to figure them out or if he was just plain hungry!




There's usually no one in the Otter Den, but today was a day for seeing things we hadn't seen before. There were two otters snuggling together in their den. We also saw the beaver in his den and two meerkats in their den today.


We had a very full day, so we finally dragged Abby away from the zoo and headed home after a bite to eat.