Grant Goes to the Zoo

At the end of July, Grandma and Grandpa Sommers came to visit. Grant had lots of fun with 'gramma' and 'crappa' including getting taken out for french fries several times!! While they were here, we went hiking while Daddy went dirt biking (I'll post some of those pictures in a different entry) and we went to Sunset Zoo in Manhattan. Grant's been to the zoo before but he was only a few months old, so he didn't really get to enjoy it much. It was VERY hot and VERY humid that day (you can probably tell from our red faces).
Grant loved the monkeys best. He kept asking to see more monkeys, but the zoo only had so many. One of the chimpanzees came right up to the glass where Grant was and sat down and looked at him.
Grant saw this leopard and called it a tiger. The real tiger was about as interesting as a bump on a log and Grant never really got to actually see him because he was sitting down in the shade far away from the spectators. But thanks to this leopard Grant thinks he did see the tiger.
This cute little red panda came right up to the glass where Grant was and then went back out to climb up the tree. He looked like a little stuffed animal.
The flamingos are one of my favorites. They looked like they were keeping cool in the water that day. Wish I could have joined them and gone wading.
Grant went for a walk with the tortoises that were walking around the perimeter of the fence. He thought they were really neat and we saw some turtles in the pond that were swimming and they came right up to us and just looked. We realized later that we were standing next to the turtle chow machine and they were probably annoyed that we didn't give them any food.
The zoo has a little goat petting zoo. It took Grant a little while to warm up to the idea of actually touching the goats, but since Daddy did it, he wanted to also.
Then after he touched one, he had to go around and touch ALL of them. This one was hanging out by the gate, hoping to escape we think.
The goats were really cute and after the zoo was over, we went to dinner (all hot and sweaty) at Famous Dave's Barbecue.