Central Park Zoo

Every once in a while, I get a notion to take a little "day trip" with the kids. Last Saturday, I decided it was time for us to go to the Central Park Zoo. If you ever find yourself in New York City, whether you have kids or not, check out the zoo. It's the perfect size for just spending a couple of hours walking around, it's very beautiful, and the admission is a steal.

I can't remember the name of this bird............


.................or this one........but they were all flying around freely in their building they stay in.

These are little marmoset monkeys...they were so cute!!

This looks like a fancy dove/pigeon to me........it freaked the kids out because it had red eyes, they said it was evil.

The lemurs were cute too....................King Juillian!!

Snow monkey

The black stork...


The kids are standing in front of one of the polar bears.

That wad next to him is his blankie!

He played with it for us :)

We watched this fur seal swim back and forth in front of us for several minutes. It was very relaxing, he even made eye contact with us several times.

This polar bear was enjoying a nice swim too. He was absolutely huge!!!

We took a break, got some ice cream and watched the sea lions for a while.



The first time we walked by the snow leopard exhibit, she was sleeping and we couldn't see her. We stopped by one more time before we left and got a good look at her.


Showing off their souveniers. Jordan had a little bit of birthday money left to spend, so she got a stuffed red panda. I told Jaron he could spend $5, and he got a sea turtle to add to his collection.

This is the Delacourt Clock, I think it was in "Madagascar". Just as we were walking under it, it was playing its hourly song.

The path under this bridge took us over to the Children's Zoo........

where Jaron hopped across the lily pads..........


and Jordan hatched out of her turtle egg..........


they peeked through knotholes...........

and did some bird watching.

Jaron's favorite farm animal, the guinea hen, pranced by............



and they visited with little cottontail friends.

Jaron did some basking in the sun...........

so did Jordan...........

and they basked some more!

To finish off the trip, they spent a few minutes on the huge spider web that I am sure Spider-man spun just for Jaron.

After our trip to the zoo we caught the subway down to Chris's theater. We grabbed a sandwich and hung out with him in his dressing room for a little while. It was a very nice day...we had a great time!!!