Behind the Scenes

Last Thursday our zoo had Member Appreciation night. They open the zoo in the evening from 5:30-8pm. They give behind the scenes looks at some of the animals, meet the keepers, check out the vet hospital, etc. We have never gone before so I thought it would be kind of cool to take the girls. One thing I totally underestimated was the number of people that would be there. So we didn't get to do everything we wanted to but we got a few things in.

One of the good things of the evening was they had free wagon and stroller rentals, so we took advantage of that so the girls didn't get lost in the crowd. As usual, I can never get straight smiles anymore...


When we got there we went ate some dinner, listened to music and let the girls make birthday cards for some of the zoo animals. Once they were done with the card they got to give it to one of the zoo keepers to deliver the card to that animal.

We then moved on to check out the behind the scenes for the elephants. The keeper was there talking about all the elephants. One of them was pregnant, Katie asked where the baby was. Ha!

The elephants were really friendly and would come straight up to the rails. They had four females and one male. Bree had a death grip on me as she was not sure what to think seeing such a big animal so close. I thought it was so cool. The elephants would look you straight in the eye and try to reach out to you with their trunks.

Here's Katie as we were leaving, Bree was being a party pooper and didn't want her picture taken.

We also got to ride the train for free, so we decided to ride the train back to the front of the zoo.

Before we left we let the girls ride their favorite thing the carousel....also free that night. :)