Wildlife World Zoo

Today I took my little sisters out to the Wildlife World Zoo. Well, I had planned to take just my two little sisters, but ended up with my three sisters, my aunt Jenn, my cousin Angie, my cousin Katie and her husband Robert, and Alyssa, who we consider a part of our family because she has practically lived with us since she was about two, but is actually our neighbor.

Anyway, it was a long, but fun day. The zoo was pretty cool, I liked it better than the Phoenix zoo, but its been a long time since I've been there. The only problem is that this place is forever away. It took about an hour to get there, and looked really lame from the outside, but was actually really neat. It did get pretty hot today, which is so annoying. Seriously, it's March 1st. It should not be this hot already. Its just wrong. I actually got sun-burnt today. Sad, I know. I was the only one - I mean, what kind of an Arizona girl am I? I can't even spend a few hours at the zoo with out frying. wretched fair skin.

So, it was forever away, and really hot, but we had a lot of fun.


First stop was the reptile exhibit. This is Lynnsi (my littlest sis) and Angie(my cousin) in front of the zoos claim to fame: albino alligators. They look huge in the picture on the website, and were a bit of a let down.

We also saw a few snakes like this,
which probably doesn't seem that cool unless you grew up reading books like this:



By far the most disturbing thing about the reptile house(besides the large hissing cockroaches) was this:

I know its hard to see, but that is a huge boa constrictor on that branch and Cassie and Angie are leaning into the cage because there was NO GLASS!!!
Anyone else think it disturbing to put huge reptiles that could easily eat a child Angies size in a cage with no glass? I was slightly horrified.
In order to ease my horror, I tried to get Cassie to climb into the cage and re-enact a classic Harry Potter scene, but to my dismay, she refused.



After the reptile house, we went and looked at the monkeys. Two of the spider monkeys had babies and it was absolutely amazing to watch them swing all over the place while the little babies just held on for dear life.
Sadly, none of my pictures turned out, but lets pretend like I took this one.




Angie was so excited to see her friends Timon and Pumba there, though they weren't quite as cheerful and musically talented as she expected.



Then we saw the rhino. Or, rather, we wanted to see the rhino, but it apparently did not want to see us.

Angies favorite was the flamingos. We seriously couldn't get her to leave.


When we finally drug Angie away from the flamingos, we went over to the petting zoo where there was all kinds of goats and deer. They had a machine where you could buy food for them, but if you went in the gate with food in your hand, you got swarmed.
Annie was the first to go in and got so scared when they all ran at her that she was clutching the food in her hand and yelling, so I had to yell at her from outside the fence to put her hand down and give them the food.






Once she ran out of food, some wandered off, but others stuck around to chew on her shirt and shoelaces until Katie chased them off.















After the petting zoo, we watched an animal experience show. I thought it was kinda lame, but the girls liked it. This is us waiting for it to start:





























I've never been good at that hold-the-camera-out-in-front-of-you trick. And ya, my sisters shirt says "I dig your mom." I tried to convince her it was wrong, but she wouldn't listen.

Next we went to the giraffe feeding station, which was so cool. You had to drop the food on to the giraffes tongue, because if you just held out your hand they would wrap their nasty long tongues around your hand. It was hilarious. More than one child screamed as the long, slimy tongue encircled their hand.


We had a lot of fun, but it was a long, hot day and I've got the burn to prove it. : )