Oklahoma Zoo
In Oklahoma, we spent a fun day at the zoo seeing animals that we don't see at our zoo, riding the train, playing on the park and spending quality time together as a family!
We loved watching this baby elephant roll, stand up on rocks, follow her parents around and eat.
Henry liked climbing on this statue of "Henry and Maggie elephants playing". Maggie was snoozing in her stroller so she couldn't play
Grams was the Cougar Whisperer. Henry just backed away and away. He's not so fond of animals that close, especially big cats with sharp teeth. Who can blame him, really?
Henry checked out most of the animals from Daddy's shoulders
And one of the coolest things was feeding the giraffes. I've never been this close to a giraffe, and certainly have never feed them, but you could get some lettuce and the giraffes would uncurl their long tongues and lap them up.
Henry went with me and wasn't shy about feeding the giraffe the first piece of lettuce.
But then the tongue actually touched his fingers, and that was pretty yucky for him! So he just watched safely from my arms
It was really neat, and the tongue wasn't slimy or wet or anything, just dry and a little tickle-y. I knew giraffe tongues were black, but they were really black half way, and then the rest pink. And really long!
These giraffes were so gentle and I loved feeding them. I'm proud of Henry too for being brave and maybe in a few years he'll want to feed them himself.
