A Short Trip to the Zoo on a Sunny Summer Day

According to the weather forecast, the next ten days will either be hot and sunny or humid and rainy - not the best for doing a lot of fun activities outside. Since yesterday's forecast was very nice, I decided to take Matt to a small zoo about half an hour away for a morning outing.

Matt really enjoyed watching the kangaroos, although he was disappointed when they stopped hopping.

Matt's favorite activity: feeding the goats...

... and the alpaca.

He found the lions uninteresting since they were, as usual, just lounging around or sleeping.

Ring-tailed lemurs

Cranes

Warty pigs

Watching the Amur leopard drink

Sloth bear

Matt also enjoyed watching the monkeys (and the meerkats, but I didn't get a good photo of them).

 

Posing with the monkey in the banana car

Matt's second favorite part: playing in the sandbox (and the accompanying tunnel, once a 2-year-old joined him)

Golden lion tamarins

Being bats

After we finished at the zoo, we went to the accompanying playground for a little bit.

Climbing up and checking out the faces on the bugs and sun

Sliding down his currently preferred way