The National Zoo

Our first blog post in a month and our first since we've returned to the US...has it really already been two weeks?!  

We've been trying to take it easy, we've been tired, Gwangi has been fighting a cough since we returned and Sissi has been a bit emotional.  So, for our first "field" trip beyond seeing a friend for a play date or a run to the store, we picked the National Zoo.  I'm thankful that our new phone's navigation system (that we've called "Rosie" after Rosie the Robot from the Jetsons) was able to get us there with only a small detour or two ;).

Here are a few pictures from our "safari" in Washington D.C.

My little girl, looking at all the water animals of the Amazon.

We were careful not to stand under the "not house trained" monkey.

I loved this plant, all throughout the Amazon forest.

With our friend Inna and her daughter, Lexie.

The girls, sharing a stroller.

We've seen a few of these elsewhere, lol...

The main reason we came to the zoo...to see the pandas.

Krypto was literally hugging the glass trying to talk to the Nautilus.  My guy just loves his sea creatures.

We were so far away from the lions...our view while at Mikumi was much closer, but this was probably safer.

On the sidewalk, I think he was a runaway and there was a lot of screaming going on as we walked past.  You wouldn't know that we were at a ZOO, aren't there supposed to be wild animals here?!