Well folks here is my first photo blog post with actual photos-the facts that you can only put up 5 photos at a time, the photos are in no particular order when you put them up, and I am sometimes lazy have combine to bring you the delay...

But now Zoo trip pictures






Here we see a mighty silver back gorilla (16 years old)


















Here is the sleeping mother of the above gorilla, this one is 40













Ah now we begin the Max viewing creatures section-I figured as I was on a family trip to the Zoo with my Godson that I should include him in a number of photos









These here are Mongolian horses perhaps descendents of those that felt the warm butt of the Great Khan himself










Ah here is photographic proof (kinda) that Skip is trying to not pass on her fear of snakes to Max-there really is a HUGE snake in that pond










Here are two of Ma's favorite creatures-the silly little river otters that were part of the Asian trail exhibit. These two were rather funny to watch.












I know this looks like a back shot of the above photo, it's really not-apparently otters pose the same way for all photos...











Here Max and his Mom view some snuggly meerkats














I took the photo of Max + His Mom + Meerkats again to try and cut down on the glare but clearly that failed.














Here Max tries to pet a fluffy prairie dog only to be thwarted by thick glass














This is a rare Max sized giraffe

















Max views a lizard















A creature that formerly was known as a Horny Toad but now is apparently not commonly known as such











Here Skip shows Max wee little baby snakes in a further effort to educate rather than pass on crazy fears-later she even got him a bright green rubber snake which you can read about is her blog.








Skip points a lazy iguana relaxing on a branch


















Here is the making of "Max in Bamboo" picture













Max and Skip having a fun day at the zoo
















Ah, probably my favorite photo of the group
This is a Northern Tree Shrew running around on some logs.









This is an Asian Water Dragon-Ma and I looked around the entire little cage only find that it was sitting on a log in the center of the cage
















This is the HUGE snake from earlier













A nice fat blue bird that really seemed like it wanted me to take it's picture














To finish things off, a nice elephant