Elijah's First Trip to Woodland Park Zoo

Seattle has an incredible zoo, the Woodland Park Zoo. Franklin and Levi stayed with us one weekend last year so Mike and Karen could have a weekend away and Aaron and I took them to the zoo with our friend Tiffany. We bought an annual membership last week because it is such a good deal financially and so we’ll be able to go as often as we like. It even allows us to go to many zoos in the country if we are on vacation. The Woodland Park Zoo is near our apartment so we could go there just to take walks if we wanted to in the future. Our first trip to the zoo was a lot of fun for all of us, but I was the giddiest of all! Elijah babbles at dogs when we are going for walks so I figured he would really enjoy all the animals. Here are some of the the photos from Thursday.

Elijah and me on the hippo!

Elijah appeared to be quite impressed with the
long neck of the giraffe. At times he looked
like he was about to cry when the giraffe came pretty
close. They were feeding him leaves across
from us so he got pretty close to us checking to
see if we had any munchies for him too. Elijah
recently started getting scared of selective strangers
and he seemed to react the same way to the giraffe.

Here's our giraffe friend!

The elephants were fun to watch and they
didn't get as close to Elijah so he was a
bit more comfortable with them!

Elijah and Mommy!

Elijah and Daddy!

The emu got away before I could
get his picture right next to us.

This very bold peacock came right up to us because
we were eating our lunch on the go. Aaron
got between Elijah and the peacock
momentarily when we were not sure of his intentions.

Hanging out on the anchor in the penguin exhibit.

I am not sure if Jacob is still into penguins, but
this reminded me of him.

Bye-bye for now! Time to take a walk to Carkeek!