New At The Zoo

Since there was no school today, we packed up the baby grands and headed for Santa Barbara. 

There were lots of new things at the zoo - a week old baby giraffe (not on exhibit yet);

a Ranger Station with lots of touchables - the skulls were a big hit with Donovan and Jac;

a new tank for the axelotyl, one of Jac’s favorite creatures (Donovan said the meerkats were his favorite today);

and a red panda in a really nice waterfall-adjacent habitat.

The Australian exhibit puts the kids almost within touching distance of wallabies and kangaroos.

They were also within touching distance of the snow leopard (if you don’t count the window wall between them).

Leo’s favorite thing was the climbing wall, which was doing a brisk business.

Leo: I made it all the way to the top!

Me: So how was it?

Leo: Absolutely terrifying.