Zoo Day!

The day after Christmas we went to the Jacksonville Zoo with Jayme's parents.  Our sweet friend Vera got us zoo passes as a gift for Asher's birthday, so we can get in "free'' for a year!  We like the zoo for many reasons: it's only about 25 minutes away and very easy to get to, it's not too big (you can cover the whole thing in a few hours), and they have some neat animals (including jaguars, lions, giraffes, eagles, monkeys, rhinos, elephants and even some pygmy goats that the kids can feed/pet).  It was a little bit chilly but not raining (as it has been doing a lot here recently).  My favorite thing is feeding the giraffes because it allows you to get so close to them, but I also wanted to show Asher monkeys because he makes the monkey sound now.  In addition to monkeys I needed to show him a real turtle, because he says turtle, but has only seen his turtle toys, not a real one.  So off we went!

 

 New Monkey Jungle Gym- we spent quite awhile just looking at them!