Trip to the zoo

So Saturday morning we woke up and decided to take Sam up to the Santa Barbara Zoo. She was very excited to go see the animals. She talked about the elephants for about 5 minutes before I realized she was saying 'elephant'. Oops- it was my bad mom moment! :) She was so excited, this was her on the drive up!



Once we got there she was a little cautious, not too sure what to make of everything. She did LOVE the flamingos though. They were her favorite animal there I think. The flamingos and the wild ducks that were waddling around...so we could have saved the trip and went to the pond! LOL!





HEHE- this picture makes me laugh because she was so annoyed I was calling her name.. and she looks a little tipsy in the picture!



Next was the elephants she wouldn't stop talking about on the way up... and wanted nothing to do with once we got there. Isn't that how it always goes?



We saw the penguins... they weren't very active when we were there, so she didn't care too much about them.



Next we took the train ride around the zoo. We thought Sam would love this since she loves trains and she loves to go on the little one at the mall... but as soon as the train started- she said "all done". She warmed up a little a few minutes into it.





She had a lot of fun playing on the big fake grass hill... walking up and sliding down. This was the biggest hit of the day







Next stop- the giraffes. Usually it is open so you can pay (an obscene amount of money) to feed them. It wasn't open when we were there though. Bummer... that would have made for some good crying/freaking out pictures!!



If you have never been to this zoo... the giraffes have an amazing view of the ocean- it was a cloudy day though...



And then some more random zoo pictures..









She did not like this guy. At. All.







And that about sums up our trip to the zoo! We did see the otters getting down and dirty on the way out... it was funny listening to the parents trying to explain what they were doing to all the little kids! Good thing Sam had no idea and just thought they were cute! :)




One last picture. When we got home Sam wanted to go outside and play. I told her she needed to put shoes on. Here are the shoes she decided to put on. Gotta love how a 2 year old picks clothes!