Monday, January 21, 2008

San Francisco Zoo Trip.


Crossing the Bay Bridge looking out at San Fransisco.

This was the weekend we were all to go to Keiran's 5th. birthday party. Lawren, Kathleen and Jeff were coming to our house so we could all go to the party. Unfortunealy, they all got the flu and had to stay home. Uncle Corey flew up here for the party too. Well, when the Slack family wasn't able to come, we decided to take a trip the SF Zoo. The weather was great, about low to mid 60's. We didn't need our jackets.
The first stop was to see the zebra and giraffes. They walk around with such grace.

Then we headed off to see the tiger. The Siberian Tiger was put down last week due to a terrible attack with some teens. I am sure you have heard about it on the news.I can't remember what type of tiger this is, but he looks well fed and relaxed.

Here is the grayback Gorilla. He sat on the rock for quite sometime. As soon as we took this picture, he got up and ran across the yard and hit the window where visitors were watching. Not sure what got into him.

One of the zoo docents was carrying an eagle over to the penguin area. We were able to take a pic of him walking over there.
After several hours at the zoo we were a little confused as to which way to go. Tom and Corey are trying to figure out our location with the map they gave us when we entered the zoo. I am not sure if I would ever buy a TomTom, they seem to get us lost occasionally. You might want to look into a different kind of GPS system.

I took this picture especially for Dore' and Ann. They love the flamingo's.

After a full day of seeing all these amazing animals, Corey wanted to see the neighborhood where I was born. This is a pic of 47th. Street. It is only about a block or two from the Ocean and the Zoo. I am not sure of the address, I just know that I lived somewhere on this street. Can you imagine how valuable the house is today as opposed to 55 years ago?

3 comments:

Cecelia said...

Sorry that you couldn't celebrate with Kierin. Hope the family is feeling better soon. We never visited the San Francisco Zoo the whole time we lived in California. What a shame.

Natalie said...

oow I love bald eagles, they are the coolest thing.

Anonymous said...

You just went to the zoo so you could blog about it!!!