Sunday, February 5, 2012

Special Edition: my first trip to the zoo by Emily Harrison

Today's blog is told by Emily...she took her first trip to the MN Zoo and loved it!  We bought a membership for the year, so we'll have many more adventures, but this first one was pretty fun!

Today I got to see lots of animals at the MN Zoo.  We started with watching the dolphin show.  Those dolphins were amazing and are trained so well, much better than mom and dad have Sammy and Maggie trained!  They were very fast and jumped very high.  The dolphins also liked to play with balls and eat fish.
Mommy and me at the dolphin show

The funny dolphin

After that we got to do look at the other water creatures.  We saw fish, sharks and sting rays!  Mom and dad said I was too young to touch the sharks this time, but I will get to do that another time.  We also saw some bright fishes that live in the coral reef.  They were very pretty!
It's a little dark, but the fish tank was bright and colorful!


From there we went to see some African penguins.  They were fast swimmers and fun to watch!


We then went to see the snow monkeys.  Lots of the snow monkeys had babies like me!  They were so cute and we even saw some babies chasing each other and playing parkour off the walls.  It was fun to watch them!

Mommy and me looking at the monkeys
We then saw a lot of other animals, but one of my favorite were the pretty flamingos.  Daddy and I liked looking at them together.







We also saw wolverines that were pretty cool.  They reminded me of honey badgers!

Then mommy and I compared our wingspans to birds.  Hers was a lot bigger than mine was, but it was still fun!

The last animals we saw were cougars and lynxes.  They were very big!

It was too cold today to see all of the animals, but I can't wait to go back to the zoo and see them.  Mom said we can go back before she has to go to work and lots when it gets warmer out!  I had a super fun day and got really tired after our big adventure. 
Mom and dad are going to go out to eat tonight so I plan on napping when grandma Val comes to babysit!
More to come!
Emily

2 comments:

  1. Hahahaha! Emily doesn't give a crap. If she wants something, she just takes it. Like a nap :)

    Can't WAIT to see you three this weekend!
    xoxo
    Karen

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  2. Aww, Emily's first trip to the Minnesota Zoo looks like so much fun! I can't wait till we can take our babies to the Como Zoo and Como Town together. The cotton candy will be almost as big as them!

    Do you think Emily will be ready for the little Como Town driving course this summer?!

    ~Michelle

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