The boys took time to spot the birds and turtles around the waterfall. You have to look close to notice Josiah, after all, he's in camouflage.
Here are the tigers .. er, um ... the leopards. It didn't seem to matter how many times we told Nathan that these are leopards. "Leopards have spots and tigers have stripes." According to him, they're tigers.
Noah and John, checking out the new polar bears.
Meet Nortan. He's new to our zoo.
This is "little" Patches. She was new last year.
We saw the warthogs and discussed how much they look like that one pig that farts all the time in that one movie with the king lion....
There they are! Gorgeous! Well, someone surely thinks they are. Maybe their mothers.
Hissing cockroaches. Josiah studied these guys for quite awhile. I usually walk right by this exhibit. This girl's face says it all for me! We got up close to try to hear them hiss. We even hissed at them but they didn't respond. So they are either shy or snobs.
John and Noah waited on the path for the rest of us to go up on the deck. I got to see a rhinoceros pee. To quote the safari log, "it was a fine mist of urine."
The jail horses! Nathan saw them. He let us know that he did. "See. One. Two. I see them!"
We've come to the boardwalk. We've always let the boys get down and walk here. Today was Noah's first time.
Noah did just fine after adjusting to the degree of the ramp.
Noah seems to get the attention of all the girls. Come on, Noah. We're here to have family time.
I could have touched this guy if I had wanted to get my hand bitten.
Nathan and Grandpa. Nathan sometimes calls him "Grandma" much to my dad's frustration. Heh heh heh.
"Come here. Come here." The black swan didn't come any closer. I wonder what Nathan would have done if he had.....
We got to ride the carousel .... twice!
This is Josiah's favorite seat. It's the snake bench. From the look on his face, you would think he's on a roller coaster. Today, he claimed that Grandpa made him make that face. Some days it's just tough to be natural in front of a camera.
Who's this woman? Right. That's me with Josiah. Nathan is riding the "tiger."
Nathan, Josiah and Grandpa all rode on the snake bench the second time.
Noah was going to ride another animal but changed his mind and wanted to be held.
Some day I'd like to get Josiah to ride that Sea Serpent... maybe if they take out the snake bench.
John, Noah, and me. I got to ride the turkey. I would have liked to ride the giraffe but it doesn't go up and down. If I'm going to ride the carousel, I may as well go up and down.
Aw. The miniature zebu. This one posed for me. They're very considerate animals. They didn't rush me or anything. We even pet them. 
Mystery Mountain, here we come!
Noah conquered the mountain.
Josiah and Nathan love playing on this "mountain." The rope bridge is great fun to jump on.
Noah walked along the "mountain path" until he got to the bridge. It looked like crawling time to him.
Penguins! They walked around for awhile, went into the "tunnels", played follow the leader ....
... then they went for a swim! Hurray! I love watching them swim.
All that swimming made Josiah work up an appetite.
We stopped by to see the orangutan family before we left the zoo. We've seen the young one grow up over the years. She's just a few months younger than Josiah. When she was a baby, her mama would proudly show her off to all the visitors. Joseph, the father, is a flirt. He's always making kissy faces at me.
Nathan took notice every time the zoo train passed us. We didn't ride it this time since we were all getting hungry and it was past Noah's nap time. It's a good thing Grandpa came with us to the zoo. Nathan didn't want to leave and was on the verge of throwing a fit until I told him that we were going to go with Grandpa to lunch and then go to Grandma and Grandpa's house to visit. Suddenly his world was okay again. Bye, zoo!
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What fun! I always love your commentary. :)
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