zoo visit!!!!

This past Sunday was just beautiful! I went to church that morning, and that afternoon the dude and I went to the zoo and aquarium. (He wanted to go to the aviary, but I put the kibosh on that because I'm scared of birds. He didn't know that at the time. He does now.) We couldn't have asked for a better day in March to be able to go. I took some photos with my camera and thought I might share with y'all. I couldn't zoom as much as I wanted in some of the photos because of the type of lens that I have. After this experience, I now know that my next accessory should be a lens that will really allow me to zoom better. I'm going to a concert in May and I would really love to have it by then so that I can take some totally awesome pics at the concert. All pictures were taken without flash (I'm really into a natural lighting kick, if you can't tell). Back to the animals!

Snow leopard. He totally had the right idea with the napping in the sun.

Tiger.

Tiger close up! This picture was taken from behind a plexiglass window (some distortion in many pictures is because of this, also some of those windows were pretty dirty from people putting their hands on them and the animals putting their faces on them).

Rhino

Lion

Mealtime for the leopard

Two adults and one baby elephant. I have pictures that clearly shows that there are three elephants, but the baby is in the shadows in those so I decided to use this one.

Giraffe. The sun is behind him in this picture, which is why he is so dark.

Time for dinner!

Lemurs (2) before one went totally batty on the other.

It's Rafiki meditating! Come on. You know that's what you thought too. Don't judge.

Gorilla

Turtle

Penguins! (Penguins are not scary because they cannot fly at your face. They're just cute. Watch the penguin movie if you don't believe me. That's church.)

Cute swimming penguin! (This was totally our collective favorite part.)

Octopus. It was gigantic. This is under black light.

Seahorse

Nemo! Dude insisted that I get a good picture of Nemo. Then a kid came up from behind us and went "Look, Dad! Nemo!!!!" I was so proud.

Polar bear

Sea otter

I want one. Dude said I couldn't have one because it would require a larger tank than he's willing for us to invest in. I think he's just a party pooper. 

Shark! There's a tunnel under a portion of the aquarium that you can walk through and see some of the exhibits overhead.

Seal show!

Hand shaking. That's a baby seal in the water.

There were obviously many, many more animals than these. And I took over two hundred photos while there. You guys are just getting to see the highlights. (Aren't you glad!) I had fun, and I would like to go back again. We didn't make it into one last area because the zoo closed. Sadness. Maybe we can go back this summer with a better zooming lens and after I get a little better grasp on using this camera! I'm just glad that I'm getting a lot of use out of it these days. My first SD card is almost full, and it's supposed to be able to hold around 1000 photos. I'm going to have to start clearing it!