Columbus Zoo.

Disclaimer: This post is ridiculously long. It's a big, fun zoo that requires a lot of photo-taking!

Last week we took a visit to Columbus. Matt had meetings for work, so the kids and I took this as an opportunity to visit Sara and hang out in C'bus for a few days.

The zoo was a necessary stop!

Kylie was so excited! Here she is waiting on daddy to get tickets.

It was a little chilly which was ideal for seeing all of the animals. They were all awake and roaming around.

The grizzly was huge. He and Ky were having a stare-down.

We strolled onto a family of geese...

She was amazed by the elephants.

Gav was pretty interested, too.

This tiger was great. He paced along the window over and over again.

Notice the little boy in the bottom right corner.... he was hilarious! He was running along the window taking pictures and roaring at the tiger!

Once again, Gav was only slightly amused. (I should add this was his naptime.)

The lion was roaring like crazy... SO loudly! Another awesome memory for Ky.

The touch pool... getting to touch some starfish and crabs.

Aunt Sara showing Gav some fish....

We knew we had to leave lots of time for the aquarium as Kylie is so incredibly interested in ocean animals. Needless to say, it did not disappoint!

And, finally, time for the manatees!! She even brought her stuffed manatee with her to the zoo, so when we found out that there were 3 baby manatees we were stoked!

I love this shot!

This is one of the babies...

This is "Stubby"... he was rescued after a propeller accident that clipped his tail... hence the name.

To be continued...