Avilon Zoo Trip

 We were rather far off the beaten path when we found it but did find the zoo!

 Here we are taking turns holding the birds-Greg has a sun conure

 I have a red winged macaw

 Feeding the guinea pigs

 We found the capybaras in the above picture-didn't know that they could/would swim

 Here are the kids looking for the capybaras

 Holding a VERY long snake-my mother would have loved this picture-she was TERRIFIED of snakes

 Here is Ryan with a sun conure on each hand

 Peacocks-the kids wanted to get the others (in addition to the white fluffy one) to "pop out".  In spite of all of Scott's efforts at talking to it-it just wouldn't "pop out."

 We thought this was just a pond we were walking over-Scott leaned over the rail and told us there was a hippo in the water and we didn't believe him-it was a pygmy hippopotamus but still funny to just look over and see it there-hippos make really funny noises when they wiggle their ears like a dog shaking off water after a bath.

 National Animal of the Philippines-carabao-aka water buffalo

 A cool Leopard

 More snakes in the reptile building

 So we were going to feed thes huge fish-I went to pay for what I thought was going to be dry fish food and was given a bowl of (what Greg thought were) cut off chicken heads and a plastic glove-I let Greg do the feeding and I took the pictures-These fish have wide mouths that snap open and shut and make a loud noise and they fight over their food-the kids had such fun watching that Greg sent me to buy another bowl of chicken heads.

 Yes-we could get VERY close to these big cats in their cages.  Greg and I thought it was funny that we saw numerous signs for lions at the zoo but never any actual lions with manes.  Apparently they think lion and big cats mean the same thing.

 We fed these bears bananas-it was funny to watch them get them out of the peel and eat them-I didn't know bears liked bananas.

 a giant orangutan

The day wouldn't be complete for Elliott children without having some ice cream to cool off!  We enjoyed our excursion to the bigger zoo!