A Trip to the Hogle Zoo

We planned to have an extra day in Utah to do something fun, but we didn't have it planned out,   because this trip was about relaxing and having fun, not about always being scheduled.

After a nice sleeping in morning we headed to the Hogle Zoo. I came here once as a child with the Stoker cousins. I don't remember alot about the zoo except a picture taken at an animal shaped drinking fountain and a picture of all the cousins in front of an animal exhibit.

The kids needs no encouragement to test out the animal drinking fountains. Ammon & Corrine wanted their pictures taken at the two we saw.

This sweet little elephant just celebrated it's 3rd birthday just like Rebecca! It was so cute to watch.

The kids needed to try out every thing we came to. We tested out the Bald Eagles nest, the gorilla statue and the Polar Bear statues which were nice and cool because of cold water being pumped through them. Such a great idea!

Corrine and Ammon were very much enjoying messing around with the polar bears. In every picture Ammon is smiling and has his fingers up the bear nose. He was "picking it's nose". Corrine was pretending that another of the bears was biting her hand. Those two were totally hamming it up for the camera! Simeon & Rebecca had no idea what those 2 were up to and sat there smiling nicely the whole time.

The polar bear became super active right as we walked up to see him. He had his routine that he did over 2 dozen times in a row and we had the front row seat. The bear would swim right up to the glass and come up right on the glass, then push off and swim away. He did it over and over. It was such a neat thing to watch.

When we got to the bear exhibit, the zoo keepers were in putting food around for them. We stuck around so we could see the bears eating their lunch. One of the bears LOVED bananas. He would unpeel the banana and just eat the inside. The bears were super active and super fun to watch. One go onto of there shade shelter, then we turned around and 2 of them were up there. It's so fun to go to the zoo when the animals are moving around!