Trip to Visit Family: Day 4 - Kansas City Zoo 08-01-2018

Wednesday August 1st, Dad (GGPa) took us to the Kansas City Zoo.

Recognize any of these zoo animals 😜?!

The first exhibit we saw was the Polar Bears. We don't have these at the Fort Worth Zoo.

Korin wanted her picture with nearly every statue we saw!

I love this little Kangaroo 💕!

This is one big snake! Yep brave Korin is trying to get his attention. We quickly put a stop to that! 😲

This was Mom's (Vanessa's) idea but it was pretty funny!

Kennedy liked the hippo statues.

Cute little monkey!

Found a slide!

These little guys were cute!

I thought this horse sculpture made from wood was cool.

Jellyfish.

Watching the penguins.

watching the penguins swimming under the water.

Korin did pretty good but every so often she would ask GGPa to carry her.

Even though she is only 3 she is heavy!

Like any good Grandpa....he did 😉

We came to a little observation area where there were chairs and everyone of the young'uns sat down!

Kashton really liked the gorilla!

We saw lots of interesting animals.

They look dead but they are sleeping 😉

These are called "Laughing Kookaburra" but they didn't laugh for us!

Of course Monkeys.





All the large animals were on the other side of the zoo. This zoo is really spread out! Wish I had thought to count my steps. I know we walked LOTS of them.

The zoo closed at 4pm during the week and we were running out of time to see the section of the zoo that had the large animals. Vanessa and I looked at the zoo map and decided we would take the train. The kids wanted to ride it anyway.

GGPa and Korin were riding in the car in front of us.




What we didn't realize is the train didn't go to the other side of the zoo! So we rode the train back to the depot and get on the tram





Trying again to get to the other side of the zoo!

King of the primates.

This one was so used to people that the kids were able to put their hands through the fence and pet
him.

This was an interesting bird. Notice the heart shape on his chest?

Rhinos remind me of pigs 😊

We ran out of time to go by the Giraffe exhibit but you could see them from where we were. They have a baby giraffe named Daisy that was born in February.

She was so cute!

We walked some more. Little Korin was tuckered out.

Me and Dad

With the zoo close to closing, we took the sky lift back to the tram to get back to the front of the zoo.

Vanessa was a bit apprehensive about the little ones riding it but I assured her we had one adult for each kid and it would be fine.

GGPa rode with Korin

It was a nice view.

We stopped at the front of the zoo to let Kennedy refill a water bottle. While we were waiting we snapped a couple more pictures.

You can almost see Kashton's eyes 😉






Although tired we had a great day!

That evening we played some basketball again. I walked to the tank (pond for those from Missouri). I love the reflection of the corn in the water.

My walking to the water made the frogs hop in.

I watched the sunset over the cornfield while very large dragonflies danced in the air around Dad's shop. You can see a video clip of those here.

Nothing quite like watching the sunset on the farm😊

Have a good one!