Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!
So we’ve been planning to take Desmond to the Zoo for the past month/month and a half, it just kept never working out due to other plans or bad weather, etc. Yesterday we ended up with the perfect day so we packed up Desmond and headed to the metro to go visit the zoo. He had fun there and it definitely wore him out.
We started our journey with a ride on the metro. Desmond rode on Dan’s back for this part.
Once we arrived at our stop, we got out and went to California Tortilla for lunch before walking to the zoo. Once we got to the zoo we headed down the Asian trail and saw a bear!
We then headed on and saw a spotted leopard, and the giant pandas, I didn’t get any pictures because there were too many people there to get good ones. We continued on our way and stopped to see the Elephants.
Desmond liked to look around, but he tended to look more at me, or away from the animals, then at the animals.
We continued on and saw the hippo in his pond. He’s all the way in the back. We’ll miss the hippo, the zoo is getting rid of their hippos because of the new elephant trails, we have always enjoyed seeing the hippos though.
Desmond then wanted down to run around, so we took him off Dan’s back and he took Dan’s hand and started walking with him.
We then found a water fountain and so Desmond decided he needed a drink.
He also decided it had been over an hour since lunch so he was hungry. We stopped at an area with picnic tables and he had an apple and some water.
We then continued on our way and walked to the lions and tigers! Desmond decided it was time for another rest, so he sat down.
We then headed into the area with the lions and tigers and Desmond got to see the big cats. First we saw the tiger.
Then we saw the lion.
After seeing the cats Desmond was basically done. I remembered there was a play area right where we were so we went over to the prairie dog play area and Desmond climb around a bit.
We then headed towards the front of the zoo and the metro. We did stop and see a monkey, we couldn’t find the golden tamarin trail though, we think the elephant trail construction may have closed the area down. We also saw the zebras and had ice cream on our way out. By the time we got to the metro, Desmond was all worn out. He had a nice nap on the metro back to our car.
We had a nice day at the zoo and it was fun watching Desmond watch the animals, he was much more into the animals now then he was when we went in April and definitely a lot more into them then when we went last year.