Trip to the Oregon Zoo

For my brother and his wife's 3rd Anniversary/our nephew's first birthday celebration we make the trek to the Oregon Zoo. My sister also came along. We got a later start than we would have like which kinda put me in a sour mood. We arrived in the zoo parking lot around noon. Very bad timing. We could not find parking to save our lives. We drove around for more than 45 minutes trying to find a spot before finally parking almost 2 miles away at the Rose Garden where we could catch a free shuttle back to the zoo. I got super cranky. Luckily Claire was napping away. We got on the shuttle and I nursed her in the Ergo while making my nephew smile as he rode backwards in his stroller. Such a cute kid. It was a hot day and we had tons of fun. We stayed until the zoo closed.

When we walked up to this exhibit there were two orangtans huddled together on the far side of the exhibit. It looked like they were sleeping. We stood there for a few minutes. This one turned around and walked right up to the window. We were the only people at the window because the orangutans had been so boring just minutes before. As it walked closer, Chris knelt down and the orangutan came right up to the window and laid its head down. It looked right at Claire and stayed there for more than 5 minutes only leaving us when Chris stood up . It turned and walked back into its corner. So cool!!

Looking at fish.

Trying to wear Claire on my back for the first time. Melanie and Chris helped me get her all settled. This only last for about 10 minutes. She was hungry and left a huge drool spot on my back.

After we got back to our car, I decided to have Chris put Claire in her jammies and feed her before leaving because it was getting close to the time when she likes to go to sleep. After a nice long feeding I put Claire up to my shoulder to give her a burp. Instead she puked down my back, in my hair, all over the drivers seat and seatblet, and then put her face in it before I could hand her off. Yuck. What a mess. She was fine and we all had a laugh. Just one more thing to top off out fun but stressful day.

Hope you enjoyed our two zoo trips in one week.