A trip to the Zoo

One of our last summer rewards was a trip to the Jackson Zoo. We also needed to order some school uniforms for Keighly while we were up there. One of her friends, Leah, went with us.

We got there just before they were closing, which ended up being a good time since most of the crowd had already left.


Too true!


Spider-Emily!


Spider-Keighly!


Spider-Ian!


The rhino exhibit. It is amazing such large creatures can move as fast as they can.




Everyone agreed that although large, powerful, yet graceful behemoths, the one thought we came away with was "stinky".


The elephant exhibit. Peacocks and peahens roam wild throughout the zoo. You can see an albino peacock in the grass.


This elephant was very focused on arranging these limbs.


The kids herded the albino peacock and tried to catch it.


Before it got away, we snapped a pic.


Inside the waterways exhibit, Ian and Emily look at the underwater habitats.


A turtle swimming against the glass.


Back outside, the zoo has a play area set up like an alligator habitat. Here, the kids act like baby gators hatching from eggs.


Ian on a statue of an alligator (the one that laid the statue eggs).


Keighly doing her best Crocodile Hunter impersonation!


One of the last exhibits we visited was this leopard.


Beautiful!


When we entered the zoo, we were right by the giraffe exhibit. By the time we made our way back to the entrance/exit, the giraffe's were in their pen for the night.


After the zoo, we enjoyed a very nice old-time diner style meal at the Mayflower Cafe in downtown Jackson. Wow, real Coke bottles!