New Zoo Revue

Last Saturday, Mike and I headed down to Providence for zoo day and pizza night with Kristina, Mike's sister, and her family. Unfortunately, the Roger Williams Zoo up and changed closing time on us, so instead of a leisurely hour and a half there, we had to run through the zoo in a little over half an hour. It didn't matter, we say some great animals and had a great time.

With all the traveling Mike and I have done over the last 5 years, we always get a lot of enjoyment out of seeing animals in all areas of the world. Seeing animals in their natural habitats is absolutely amazing, but seeing them in captivity is almost as cool. Plus, we get to take trips down memory lane of when we saw the animals in their element.

On our honeymoon in South Africa, we got to see, very up close and personal, at a Cheetah Research center, African Wild Dogs. That was the first time that I had ever seen this cool animal and I was excited to get to see them again that day at the zoo.

Snow Leopard (Still need to get to Asia to see this one in it's natural habitat)

Definitely the crowd favorite was the Red Panda, which is on loan from China. The first time I had ever seen or heard about this animal was when I was a child and my Dad's Kiwani's Club chapter adopted the Red Panda at the Dallas Zoo. I hadn't seen another one since then. Such a beautiful animal! Just look at that cute face!

We did get to see other animals, but those were my favorites from our quick trip (except for the HUGE daddy giraffe, but we didn't get a great shot of him). Before heading out, we got some quick photos on the caterpillar.

Jacob, Kara, Corwin, Kristina

Ah! The expecting couple!

It's a good thing our cold weather is wrapping up because all my coats are busting at the seams!

After the zoo, we headed back to Kristina's and made some awesome pizzas! I was pretty pooped after that, so we headed home after a busy day.

And speaking of zoos, who remembers New Zoo Revue, the show from the 70s? I must have seen reruns in my childhood. I definitely remember the crew of animal puppet characters. However, I definitely DO NOT remember the birds and the bees lesson that this video clip sings about. Too. Weird.