to the zoo!

grayson took his second trip to the zoo. he was still pretty small on his first trip and he actually slept most of of. this time though he was awake and fully alert of everything going on around him. 

he is super lucky that his aunt is a zookeeper at the cape may zoo (an excellent- and free -zoo if you are ever in the area). she took us back to see the giraffes. 

pretty awesome right!?

they are really friendly, but they were even more so when we brought out the treats. grayson was pretty unsure about the whole thing. when they first came over he looked at it and refused to look at it again. maybe he thought if he ignored them they would go away. 

he even got slimed in the head. the giraffe came over and licked his hair. eventually though he sort of warmed up to them. when the treats ran out and they walked away all the sudden he wanted them to come back. the second round of treats went better. he was feeling more comfortable about the encounter. 

the unk and gradmom & gpa were there for the fun too. it's a darn good day when you get to pet the animals in the zoo. 

in with the giraffes live the ostriches. they are a bit less friendly. looking through the fence at them is fine, but they will bite. of course grayson didn't find them in the least bit threatening. they were behind the fence so they didn't make him nervous. 

but back to the giraffes. 

check out that tongue! 

this was the first stop on our trip. it probably should have been the last though because grayson felt he was entitled to get in with all the animals after that. he threw a fit that he couldn't get into the flamingo pen. 

he absolutley loved looking at all the animals. we weren't sure if he would enjoy it or not but he definitely did. i was really impressed with how he was able to spot the animals in the exhibits. i didn't think he would know to look for them. 

it was a fun day and fortunately we spend lots of time down the shore in the summer so i am sure we will  make lots of trips to see the animals. especially since they have awesome playgrounds there too. thanks again to grayson's aunt kim for taking us back to see the giraffes! it was the best. 

the zoo

grayson's auntie kim is one of the zoo keepers at the cape may zoo. our family vacation down the shore is wrapping up so we thought a trip to see the animals was in order.


because we are super awesome and have kim as our inside connection we got to go down and see the giraffes (and a few mentally challeneged ostriches- no joke about the mental part, they really do have problems). she took us through those special "do not enter" gates down to their pen and brought out food so we could feed and pet them. it was pretty awesome. one was even so kind as to lick my head. yummy. i think out of everyone my dad was the one who enjoyed himself the most. seriously, he was having way too much fun.


grayson slept the entire time and woke up just as we were leaving. that did not stop us from taking a million pictures. they were bent down next to his head sticking their giant tongues inches away from his face (for those of you who are freaking out about the germs dont worry we all scrubbed up after and grayson was not exposed).


this is about the time where i would post some of those said "millions" of pictures we took. the ones that i wanted to frame and put in his jungle themed room. but guess what. there was NO memory card in the camera. too bad. so sad.


very disappointing.


we did get to pet and feed giraffes at the zoo though so all and all it was still good. maybe we can go back another time to get those photos, and maybe he will even be awake for it this time.