A Day at the Zoo

Today was an absolutely gorgeous day. It's days like these that make up for all the snow and cold we've had over the past couple of months. It was 64 degrees with the typical bright sun and blue skies. Gotta love it. So we met up with our friends Kristen and her kids at the local zoo. The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo to be more specific. It is a great little zoo. I really never imagined i would be impressed with any other zoos after growing up with the National Zoo in DC, but this is so kid-friendly and fun. You can actually FEED giraffes. They have one of the biggest giraffe herds in the...world?? Anyway, something like that. Elephants, hippos, mountain lions, reptiles, penguins, apes, mountain goats, lions, tigers, bears (OH MY!), tapirs, peacocks, just to name a few of the animals they have. Then they have a carousel, a toddler train and a play area with farm animals. Today a lot of exhibits were closed including all of the above kiddie attractions, but we still had fun walking around with our buddies. Kate and Bode were completely mesmerized by this albino python.



We let them look at it for a good 20 minutes before we finally dragged them away to get some lunch. There's another python coiled up in the corner, but the albino was slithering around tasting the air for some food it seemed. Hopefully we will not have snake dreams tonight. We had a long-standing "Mr. Snake" issue about 4 months ago after a kid brought a life-like toy snake to the playground and it freaked Bode out. He eventually mellowed out about the snake and carried around "Mr. Snake"--a piece of ribbon he found. He even made sure Mr. Snake slept in his bed at night. In the end, Mr. Snake basically unravelled and was tossed. Bode seemed totally cool with this python, so, we shall see...


We missed feeding the giraffes today as we were running late and Kristen had already done that, but here is a picture from last April: