Orchids at the Zoo

One of the really nice thing about the Evansville Zoo is that a family membership is quite reasonable, so when Miles wants to go see some animals we can just hop in the car and go see a piece.  If you have a membership you don't feel obligated to walk the whole zoo unless you want to.  You can pop in and see the animal or animals that your kid is into that week and then go home.  No pressure to hurry through to see everything to "get your moneys worth."

Miles and I went to to the zoo the other day for just such a trip.  We just went to Amazonia and then we walked up the new curvy path and went home.


Miles seemed to spend more time exploring the exhibit.

They have their orchids on display this month and he stopped to smell a variety of them.

He stood and watched the cockroaches move around their exhibit for quite a while.

Miles was taken with the scarlet ibis and the spoonbills this time.

He does tend to stand a little too close to some of the birds.

We had a first this time at the zoo.  The jaguar walked to the outside part of his cage put his back side to the little caged in area that kids can crawl in and marked his territory before he went on to roll in the grass.  I guess he told us.   

Here are some of the pictures of the orchids that we took.