Zoo Trip!

There is a new exhibit at the zoo, Giants of the Savannah, that JUST opened. We went this morning for a quick trip to see this new area. We knew it was going to be hot, so we went early. Unfortunately, we'd have had to be there at 4a to arrive before the heat.

This new exhibit is towards the back of the zoo, meaning that we had to walk past lots of OTHER exhibits to get there. Exhibits that Luis was also interested in seeing. Exhibits that were distracting us from our mission. Exhibits that wasted precious minutes as the mercury was sky-rocketing.

By the time we got to the "main event", Diego, Luis and I were all sweating profusely and were all slightly annoyed (Luis that he kept getting dragged away from the thing he was looking at and D & me for having to drag). But it was worth it! The exhibit was fantastic!! We saw lions, cheetah's, giraffes, gazelle, zebra, and ostrich!

I was about to melt and in desperate need of a bathroom, and wondered in to one of the places that sells food. It turns out that this restaurant abuts the lion enclosure. I quickly discovered that 5 of the lions were lying up against the glass wall of the restaurant, presumably trying to cool off, just like I was. I scurried out to get Luis and Diego so that they could also enjoy this great view of the lions.

You don't have to see Luis's whole face to see how cool he thinks this is!

One of the things you can do is to feed the giraffes. What it really means is that you can spend $5 to buy 3 pieces of romaine lettuce and then elbow your way to the fence, and hope that the giraffes are still hungry. Luis loved it!!

Back in the summer of 2008 while in Florida, we went to the Brevard County Zoo. It was interesting to go back to that post and see Luis feeding the giraffes two years ago, wearing the same batman hat (and seem him just as hot as he was today!).

And, as Diego pointed out, it was so hot and humid that you truly felt like you were on an African Safari!