Lions, Tigers, Bears, and Lance

In July, Lance and Robin took one last trip down to visit us before he graduated and moved on to bigger and better and colder things in Minnesota.  Lance has things for zoos and wanted to visit the one in Salt Lake, so we decided to hit it up with them.  It was going to be a blazing hot day, so we tried to hit it right as it opened and still ended up melting when we left at noonish.  Hogle Zoo is a fun place to go and I suggest it to anyone who is visiting the SLC area.  

 

We bought tickets to ride the train, which was easily one of Kent's favorite parts of the trip.

Measuring up

Can you spot Lance's glasses?

Their peacocks we just roaming around.  Here this one is eating some smashed goldfish on the ground.  We were so close to this guy that he almost took us out with his tail when he whipped around.  

Hanging out with the lions.

Tiger

Giraffe

Their new polar bear.  This guy was such a character, he would do the same thing over and over again.  He would pop up in front of the window, do a back flip, swim back, turn around, and swim right up to the window again.  I am not sure if they trained him to do this, but everyone I have talked to that has been to the zoo says he did the same thing for them.  Regardless, he was quite entertaining.

Anyone from Pullman isn't all that impressed when seeing a bear, you can get fairly close to the ones on WSU's campus, but I liked how this bear was posed.  

We also bought the kids tickets to ride the carousel, and made Lance and Robin take the kids while we went and bought snow cones and Icees to cool off.  Don't worry, we shared.

Cute...

There are no words.