Party Tricks and The Zoo

You can only sit in a hotel room so long before you come up with new things to do.  By day three Zoe was ready for something new.  N, being the coolest daddy ever, decided to teach her how to arm wrestle.  She took to the arm wrestling like a penguin takes to water.

She shut daddy out.  She took all three games.  Daddy's a good sport and still offered to do a celebratory "show me your muscles" pose.

After all the wrestling, it was time to give the muscles a rest and check out some animals.  The first stop at the Oregon Zoo was the ever wild, never before seen...cows.  That's right.  They have cows at the zoo.  Zoe wasn't totally impressed by a couple cows laying in a pen.  She wanted to see the giraffes.  I think she's been watching too much Dora because she's tell us to "vamanos."

We left the cows and headed toward the giraffes.  I was quickly distracted by the new orangutan area.  Those are some huge apes!  Zoe quickly made friends with the female.  They stopped for some girl talk before we headed on.

It wasn't long before we made it to the giraffes.  We got there just in time for feeding so both the parent (I'm not sure if it's a daddy or a mommy) and the baby were out eating.  Zoe loved it and could've stayed there all day just watching the giraffes.  They are her favorite new animal. 

I could only look at them for so long before we told her we needed to head to the train station!  Riding the train was the second coolest thing at the zoo right after the giraffes.

She loved seeing all of Washington Park and feeling the breeze on her face and we rode the tracks.

My favorite part came later, on the way back through the zoo.  The elephants were out back and I got to see the baby elephant.  Although technically I'm not sure it's a baby elephant anymore.  It's probably more of a toddler now.  Either way, it was totally awesome and adorable.

That sums up our vacation.  Baby animals, sand in our toes, a fall at the waterfall, a small injury and great fellowship with friends.  It was busy, but it filled our memories and our hearts.  We can't wait for the next long weekend.