Monkeys on the Side: Cincinnati Zoo

In honor of the staycation (actually we're saving for a White Elephant next year), we spent Thursday at the Cincinnati Zoo, the #4 zoo in the world! Ok, we spent that last four hours of Thursday......we have trouble getting out of the house. So we took the kids to the Cincy Zoo as this was our one week vacation for 2008 w/Joey. It was 95 degrees with tons of humidity, and we rushed through the zoo to get it done in 4 hours. But we didn't really notice the heat or humidity. The stench was overwhelming at times because of it tho! LOL Joey really enjoyed it and Maria suffered through it well enough :-) Harold and I enjoyed the heck out of it. Great family trip. BEAUTIFUL zoo. You can catch the entire album here . Or, you can scroll down through the blog post and view my catchy captions :) ........Here's some pics:

Welcome to the zoo! Mom! KOI! Which also got confused with coin and toy and boy that day....

Family pic minus mom......in front of the new "Feed the Giraffes" exhibit. Sounds sanitary doesn't it? Favorite question of the day: Mom, what are all those black balls down there? Poop, Joey. Poop. Ewwwwwwwww........

Hurry up mom......I don't want him to poop on me while you're trying to get a good shot!!

The Macaw

pretty, exotic plant opposite the Macaw

Can you guess what we're going to see next? No, not Maria smiling....

Keep guessing......

An elephant!!

Sumatran rhino.....hairy beast

how'd the kids get over there?!

hmmmmm.......I wonder........

OH NO!!!!

MAH REE AAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

Happy as a lark after the diaper change.....

Salmon crested macaw

blue and yellow macaws

Eyre Eagle (sp?) Have you noticed the abundance of birds at this zoo?! Guess it's all the botanicalness......

ahhhhh.....the child human in natural state, unable to eat frozen treat fast enough before the heat ruins it and whining therein....behold.....the majestic stickiness of it all.