A Trip to the Zoo

After planning my week's activities around the weather, my two homies and I packed up and headed out to the zoo on Monday. I'm glad we were able to enjoy the pleasant weather and see most of the animals outside also enjoying the calm before the storm. The animals were very active--especially the white-handed gibbon who was calling up a storm to his woman. She would have nothing to do with him and continued to ignore his incessant whoops. Finally she swung away, and he followed her. Typical. My second favorite moment of the trip. My first was seeing the grins on Evy and Ezra's faces while taking the train ride. So fun for them. So cramped for me!

Ezra's favorite stop was the elephant encounter. All three elephants were out. Baby Zuri (sp?) was playing while the other two ate and ate. Evy loved everything. Seeing the world through her eyes--excitement and learning around every turn--was rewarding to me. Even though it has been hard being a stay-at-home mommy lately, walking into the zoo that morning in the fresh air I felt very grateful to Eric that he enables me to stay home and have fun and educational outings with my kiddos.

Here are a few shots taken that day. I shot them in RAW and bumped up the clarity and contrast a little. Someday when I get better lenses I'm hoping I'll get clearer, crisper images in the camera!