The Zoo

We went to the Phoenix Zoo on Saturday. The city has a Culture Pass that you can check out through the library. If gives you free admission to different museums and places around the valley. The zoo is always checked out, but we finally got one. Otherwise it costs $18/person. The zoo is not cool enough for us to spend $36 to go to it. We had such nice weather. It cooled down so was only about 85 degrees. And it was their Pumpkin Palooza day. So animals weren’t moving too much, but we still had fun.

Gage didn’t really enjoy sitting on the lion. Even Jeff couldn’t get him to smile. He was a little tired.

As it was the Zoo’s Halloween Celebration, they had a little pumpkin area set up. We couldn’t resist getting some pumpkin/Halloween pictures.

This might have been Gage’s favorite part of the day. He actually got to play with something.

Here he was mad because we wouldn’t let him chew on the pumpkins or the straw.

Gage is funny. He would much rather look at all the people around, then the animals. Although the animals weren’t moving, and the people were, so I don’t know if I blame him.

This lion was posed on top of the rock. He also didn’t move, but it was a great picture. Too bad our camera is small, and kind of old, and doesn’t have much zoom.

I guess Gage did look at some of the animals.

His new trick is turning around in the stroller. You have to have him strapped in, with shoulder straps, or he turns around and says “hi.”

He starts sitting down, but will stand up. Even if we are moving.


And he has found the cup holders. I always store my keys and phone here when we go on walks. It did not take long for him to figure out that there is always something good in there.

Gage gets strapped in every time now. And we enjoyed our walk around the zoo.