WARNING - LOTS of pictures ahead
So many animals, so much fun. Today we took Eli to the NC Zoo and had a great time seeing all the animals. Eli's animal vocabulary definitely got a workout! It was also great that Grandma + Grandpa C and Uncle Billy met us at the zoo and spent most of the day with us. We started the day in the Africa region and then made our way to the North America side seeing gorillas, chimps, elephants, zebras, giraffes, ostriches, bears and so much more. I'll try to illustrate through pictures.
Riding the tram through the zoo to the Africa side. Eli loves buses so it was fun to ride one.
Eli + Mommy watching the big gorilla
Gorilla x 2 - they were HUGE!
Eli spent most of the day riding on Grandpa's shoulders. He was definitely Grandpa's boy today!
Grandpa, Eli + Uncle Billy riding the lion
Eli really enjoyed watching the chimps. They put on a good show for us.
Eli put on his own monkey show for us. =)
So funny to see the chimp with his own "blankie". Several of the chimps fought over said "blankie" - very funny to watch.
This older chimp came right up to the window and sat in front of all the kids. They had a blast watching him rock back and forth, scratch his feet and touch his face UNTIL.....
He showed all his teeth. That kinda scared Eli a bit.
Enjoyed watching the ostriches, giraffes and zebras. The giraffes were Mommy's favorite. (We even picked up a stuffed animal giraffe for the jungle nursery.)
Fell in love with this sign - Mama's in charge!
Family photo op on the rhino.
Love my Pop Pop, Maw-Maw and Uncle Bill
Ride 'em Eli!
Watching the elephants.
I was very excited for Eli to ride the carousel. He seemed very excited to ride the crocodile with Daddy beside him. That didn't last long....
As soon as it started moving up and down, Eli got upset and wanted off.
But he did LOVE driving the safari jeep with animal passengers.
Grizzly bear
Eli loved sitting on all the statues
Riding the leaf slide with Grandpa
Eli loved to "dig dirt" with Grandpa. They pretended to be planting a garden in the Kids Explorer zone.
Family picnic outside the park after viewing all the exhibits.
Dirt play required an outfit change. Eli loved the yellow wiggly worm Grandpa bought him. He ran around for a while throwing it all over the place.
One last photo before going home
We weren't off the zoo grounds five minutes before this is what we had in the backseat. Eli was so good all day and enjoyed every second at the zoo. He was sooooo tired by the time we left about 1:45pm.
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