Cleveland Zoo

This weekend we headed over to Cleveland to spend the weekend with Auntie Dre and Uncle Kevin. We took a trip to the Cleveland Zoo, which was really cool. It is a really, really big zoo. It took us all of 4 hours to walk around but it could easily be a two-day zoo visit if you wanted to see everything. It was really nice because they have a ton of animals that the Toledo zoo does not. I got a lot of good pictures for Nick's animal book that will make it a lot different than Ben's animal book I made last Christmas.

This was towards the end of the day. Nick was already exhausted and out cold. He had hung out in the Moby wrap for a while and really enjoyed the animals. He got pretty excited looking at the monkeys and the fish.

Porcupines - there are 2 in this picture, but they are huge!

A very cool crocodile. It was swimming all over the place. I have never seen a crocodile or alligator move so much, even in the wild

A koala bear! Love it!

A tree kangaroo. The Cleveland zoo has a really, really nice Australia exhibit.

They had tons of kangaroos

Including one with a joey in her pouch! It was actually kind of disturbing. The joey had apparently hopped in head first because it's legs were sticking out at weird angles

They also have a very nice petting zoo. Ben actually pet the mininature horse. He wouldn't go near anything else. They also have camel rides (but I was too cheap for that)

And of course we had to stop and play on the playground

This is a lemur! I wanted to get a better picture of its crazy eyes, but no such luck. And I couldn't find the ones with the really big eyes - they were hiding outside somewhere

A red panda

Their giraffe just had a baby, too (there is a brand new baby at the Toledo zoo)

And we shall call this an elkhound! The plaque talks about sled dogs, but come on, if that doesn't look like an elkhound silhouette!

Checking out the seals from up high

This is a little baby grizzly bear! He and his sibling were born in February. They are the same age as Nick!