Christmas Eve morning, we met up with Matt's family and Brian and Melody's family at the zoo to see the animals with their Christmas enrichments. We started the morning off in the parking lot enjoying doughnuts, bagels, milk, and chocolate milk before heading into the zoo.
Group
Jennifer and Braden
Matt
Charlie, Henlie, and Danica
The rest of this post will pretty much be pictures unless I recall something I really want to share. Because, really, the zoo it just looking at all of the animals ;)Jennifer and Braden
Matt
Charlie, Henlie, and Danica
Checking out the lions (We heard them roar on our way out of the zoo!)
Lions eat Christmas trees, who knew?
Smiley Andrew
Girls and monkeys
Henlie and Charlie checking out the giraffe statues and the ice sculpture.
Tormenting a peacock
Checkin gout the elephants.
Andrew with his #elfie
Baby orangutan loves to play!
Henlie with the otter statue
Rizzo the polar bear playing with her ball
Grizzly bears
Andrew and Mommy with Rizzo in the background
Henlie, Charlie, and Matt found a cave to sit in.
Andrew and I got separated from the group a bit because he was hungry, so I opted to nurse him while watching the seals and sea lions swim past since it was indoor. We had been near the head of our large group. The middle section past us. Finally, Dad came wandering through. He took the stroller while I carried Andrew after he was finished. We caught up with everyone at the polar bear statues :)
I love Henlie and Charlie's friendship. Henlie is thankful for Charlie every night in her prayers.
Playing on the polar bear statues.
Charlie and Henlie with a snow leopard
Henlie and Charlie checking out an informational screen inside "Grandma's house" to get warm.
Snow leopard with panda friend.
Henlie and Charlie playing on the tiger statues.
Up close and personal inside "Grandma's house."
Grandma took a picture of us from the other side of the enclosure :)
Grandpa and Henlie being eaten by the lion drinking fountain :)
Zoos are tiring for little baby Andrews.
Fun goat relative standing on a log.
I love going to the zoo! Next it was home for a few hours before we headed to Mapleton for a family party!
On December 11th, we met up with Jason and Camile to go to ZooLights! at Hogle Zoo. We were running behind our planned schedule, so they'd done probably at least half the zoo before we got there, but they went back through everything to hang with us. Henlie was super excited to see her best friend Charlie. She misses Charlie since they've moved to Layton. It was cold and wet, and due to the cold, wet, dark, late nature of the outing, we didn't see many actual animals. If we did, they were sleeping haha. But we had a fun time wandering through, looking at the lights.
Snow leopards...asleep.
Henlie and Charlie in front of the Tiger exhibit.
Henlie heading toward the tunnel.
Jason with Charlie, Henlie, and Danica on the polar bear statues.
Seahorse lights.
Henlie checking out some lights.
Charlie and Henlie on a rhinoceros statue.
Adding in Camile and Danica :)
We got back around to the front of the zoo and said goodbye to Jason and Camile. We opted to eat dinner in the Beastro. Henlie was super tired, but we had a pretty fun outing enjoyed warming up inside before heading back home.
She was so sleepy.
Also, that orange was awful. Super hard to peel and very slippery.
Tired Henlie and Daddy at the ZooLights! sign outside the zoo.
Family shot! (Andrew was in his stroller, hence he's not in any of our photos.)
