Blank Park Zoo

 When the Niabi Zoo opened for the season we got Zoo passes, which got us into Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines for free. Sweet!!

Ammon LOVED feeding the Giraffe and the giraffe LOVED Ammon! This was a 1st for all of us. Rebecca wasn't so sure about feed it and really wanted to get away when it started licking at her skirt!

It was a hot day so we were kind of slow going and stopped and played on everything we could. The kids decided to hatch from an Emu egg, rest in a kangaroos pouch, take a ride on the train and take a break on the dino's vertebrae. I think for Rebecca feeding the Kio fish may been the highlight of the day. She feed them one piece of food at a time and watched them fight over and eat it. She had dad wrapped around her the entire time she fed them. There was a boy about 12 years old that was feeding the fish, then reaching down and picking them up. It was really nest to watch. We stuck to feeding and touching the backs of them.

Just as we were done seeing all the animals some very dark rain clouds rolled in. It started to rain so we decided that was our cue to be done. We took off for the van and within minutes of getting in the cloud burst open and down poured. Since we are so low on rain it was such a Heaven sent blessing to see. Some of the roads on the way to our friends the Aamodts house in Gilbert were flooded it was raining so hard!! We were so hoping that the rain would make the 2 hour trek to our house and water our yard!

We love going to Zoo's and checking out each one's fun attractions and animals. The Blank Park Zoo is about a 2 hour zoo with some fun playthings for the kids. It's a 2 hour drive away so it's not one we'd go to for a day trip, but it's fun to hit it once during the summer.